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Bickersteth, E.: Christian Psalmody

(a) Edward Bickersteth: Christian Psalmody, 1833

Xref: RS-47 O worship the King

(b) [D] - do - Enlarged edition, 1841

For the Title-page and Preface to this edition, click here . . .

This collection was subsequently revised by Edward Bickersteth's son E.H.Bickersteth, and re-issued as Psalms & Hymns based on The Christian Psalmody, 1858.

Julian's appraisal of the collection (in a lengthy article on "Church of England Hymnody") is as follows (p.336a):

" ... Bickersteth's collection was a great success. It was very much an imitation of Cotterill's suppressed edition of 1819; but upon broader lines, and a somewhat different arrangement. His texts show, when altered from the originals, that he was largely indebted to Cotterill, Toplady, and the Wes. H. Book. His researches in hymnody were beyond anything before attempted in a collection for congregational use in the Church of England, and, especially in the enlarged edition of 1841, partook in this respect largely of the character of the best modern hymn-books. His ascriptions of authorship given in the index are generally correct with regard to the leading writers; but with the more obscure he is often in the wrong.
Notwithstanding that it lacked the rich productions of later writers, it was the best Evangelical hymn-book of the Church until "compiled anew," as Psalms and Hymns based on the Christian Psalmody, in 1858; and then entirely superseded by the Hymnal Companion of 1870-76, both works being by his son, Dr Bickersteth, Bishop of Exeter. . . . "

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Bickersteth, E.H.: Poems and Hymns

(a) E.H.Bickersteth: "From Year to Year": Poems and Hymns for All the Sundays and Holy Days of the Church, London 1883

(Preface to the First Edition dated Christchurch Vicarage, Hampstead October 16th, 1883)

(b) [E] - do - 3rd edition, revised and enlarged, London 1895

(Preface to the 3rd edition dated The Palace, Exeter, October 5th, 1895)

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RS-357 My God, I love thee; not that my poor love

See also DBo^bb2 Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Other writings of Bonhoeffer (in English tr.s). [ Bibliography from A Life in Pictures ]

Christology: Collins and Harper & Row, 1966

The Cost of Discipleship: SCM Press and Macmillan, 1959

Creation and Fall:SCM Press and Macmillan, 1959

Ethics: SCM Press and Macmillan, 1955

Life Together: SCM Press and Harper & Row, 1954

See also notes on Biographies of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Biographies

(a) Mary Bosanquet: The Life and Death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Hodder & Stoughton, 1968

[ for an extract from this book, click here . . . ]

Xrefs:

RS-486 By gracious powers so wonderfully sheltered

RS-342 People draw near to God in their distress

(b) Dietrich Bonhoeffer - A Life in Pictures; edited by Eberhard Bethge, Renate Bethge and Christian Gremmels. SCM Press, 1986

A beautifully printed biography, with much detailed reproduction of photographs and of numerous printed documents and manuscripts.

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(i.e. 9th April, 1945)

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Begegnungen, p.192

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From a lecture entitled "The Living God Revealed in his Church", delivered in Coventry Cathedral on October 30th 1967.

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The Book of Common Prayer, 1662

The name "The Prayer Book", as commonly used, is short for the much more imposing title: The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Ccurch, according to the Use of The Church of England, together with The Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches; and the Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.

The short name is so widely accepted (notwithstanding the existence of modern alternatives) as indicating the book which was authorised by the Act of Uniformity, 1662, that the fact of its having had at least four predecessors from 1549 onwards is generally overlooked. Although the 1662 book has survived for 300 years almost intact, with only a few minor changes to the Act of Uniformity in the latter part of the 19th century, it has throughout its history been the focus of controversy, both within the Church of England and in relation to non-conformist Churches.

There have been many attempts to revise it, some in the interest of evangelical liberalism, some with the opposite aim of strengthening its `catholic' and sacerdotal elements. For many years these attempts failed, either because the proposed reforms cancelled each other out, or because the reformers were not able to convince the secular power - the House of Commons - who under the Act had the last word in matters of revision.

In 1927-28 a revised form was indeed agreed by the Church Assembly (though not without significant opposition); but Parliament refused to ratify the changes, and the 1662 book continued to be officially mandatory for another half-century. The 1928 revision, however, became unofficially widely available; and a series of modifications to the law betwen 1966 and 1980 enabled the Church of England to experiment with other forms.

Three main alternative versions were introduced over a short period, known as Series 1 (1966), Second Series (1967), and Series 3 (1971). By this time other influences were becoming apparent: the publication of the New English Bible (1961/70) and other contemporary English versions; and the work of the JLG (Joint Liturgical Commission and the I.C.E.T. (International Consultation on English Texts ) on translations of the Psalter and other liturgical material. The way was thus clear for the adoption of the Alternative Service Book in 1980.

The 1662 Prayer Book, however, is still the only "authorised service book" of the Church of England; the ASB is, in contrast, a "book of alternative services", as its full title makes clear: Services authorised for use in the Church of England in conjunction with the Book of Common Prayer. A parliamentary Measure in 1974 released the Church of England from the obligation to secure parliamentary approval for authorised forms of service, provided that the Book of Common Prayer "remained available and unaltered".

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Book of Hours, Sarum, 1514

The practice of regular private prayer at specified `hours' of the day goes back to earliest Christian times, and indeed before that in the Jewish observances of `hours of prayer' (cf. Acts 3:1 &c.). By the end of the fourth century this had extended to public, or at least corporate, prayers at fixed hours, whose frequency varied from two (Morning and Evening prayer) to twenty-two - almost hourly devotions in communities organised to this end.

The existence of monastic communities (both of men and of women) helped to preserve the regular `Offices' of Prime, Mattins, Lauds, Tierce, Sext, None (i.e. the ninth hour), Vespers and Compline, right up to the time of the Reformation (and, in England, the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII). The material for these services was generally compiled in the books known as "Breviaries". For the private prayers of the laity, the simplified books of Offices were known as Primers, or Prymers; and for obvious reasons they were sometimes referred to as The Book(s) of the Hours.

A number of Primers from the first half of the sixteenth century have survived, notably those derived from a Sarum Primer circa 1490. The Book of Hours of 1514 is one of these; the prayer beginning `God be in my head' appears on its title page. An article by Maurice Frost in the Hymn Society Bulletin Vol.1 No.16 (Sept.1951), p.262, gives the title page as follows:

Hore beate marie
virginis ad vsum in
signis ac preclare ec
clesie Sarum

and a colophon or `tail-piece' ( ? end paper):

Hore beate marie virginis secun

dum vsus Sarum finiunt feliciter

cum orationibus ante et post san==

ctam communionem dicendis in fine

superadditis. Impresse in ciuitate

Londoni per (Richardum Pynson)

Regium Impressorem in vico di==

cto the fletestrete / ad signum geor

gii commorantem. Anno domini

M.cccccxiiii. duo decima die

mensis Mayus.

The copy seen by Maurice Frost is (or was then) in the library of Clare College, Cambridge.

Xref:: RS-498 God be in my head

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Borthwick, J.& S.: Hymns from ... Luther

(Julian, p.163b)

(a) Jane & Sarah Borthwick: Hymns from the Land of Luther, 1st series 1854

This collection, and its successive additions and enlargements, contains hymns and poems translated into English from a variety of German sources. A short Preface in the first edition, immediately following the Title page with Contents, was repeated in subsequent editions:

"A few of the following Poems may be considered as rather imitations than Translations, although the ideas and structure are too much borrowed to allow them to be called Original. It is hoped this small Selection may give pleasure to some who are not acquainted with the German language, and lead others to explore further for themselves its treasures of Devotional Poetry.
Edinburgh, December 1853."

Julian's note (p.163) commented that "These translations ... represent relatively a larger proportion of hymns for the Christian Life, and a smaller for the Christian Year than one finds in Miss Winkworth. ... "

[ Julian's reference there is to Catherine Winkworth's Lyra Germanica and her Chorale Book for England ]

In all the editions, the translations are unsigned, bearing only the name of the German author; in fact, the edition seen, which is undated but described as "Eighth Thousand", and may be the 1862 complete edition, does not appear to give the names of either Jane or Sarah Borthwick at all. Julian's note just referred to, however, adds that "Miss Borthwick [ sc. Jane ] has kindly enabled us throughout this Dictionary to distinguish between the 61 translations by herself and the 53 by her sister."

(b) - do - 2nd series, 1855

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RS-515 We praise and bless thee, gracious Lord

(d) - do - 4th series, 1862

(e) - do - complete edition, 1862

(f) - do - reprinted, 1884

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