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'I first encountered Barry Spurr long before I actually met him in the University of Sydney, as is often the way with academics, through an essay on the 1978 An Australian Prayer Book which he contributed to a book entitled No Alternative: The Prayer Book Controversy (1981).1 It was written at a time of immense liturgical revisionary activity of which I was profoundly aware myself, partly because I had been ordained as a priest in the Church of England in 1977, but more specifically because my father, also an Anglican priest, was a liturgist and the Chairman of the Church of England Liturgical Commission which was responsible for the Alternative Service Book (ASB) published in 1980, the first radically new attempt at the revision of worship in the Church of England for over three hundred years since the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. My father, Ronald Jasper, was thus perceived by many as one of the “well-intentioned wreckers”2 who were robbing the Anglican Church of its liturgical strengths and above all the glories of its language.' (Introduction)
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Epigraph: Ἔοικε δέ.... περὶ ταὐτὰ καὶ ἐν τοῖς αὐτοῖς εἶναι ἥ τε φιλία καὶ τὸ δίκαιον –Aristotle, Nichomachaean Ethics
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