Bøger af Margaret Bolton

Many people want to read the Holy Bible but they do not know where to start. This reading plan offers a comprehensive but accessible way of enhancing knowledge of the text as well as deepening faith. Each week includes a reading from the law, the prophets, psalms, the epistles as well as stories and teaching from both Old and New Testaments. Averaging ten verses a day, the readings are presented in clear type using a mixture of traditional and modern language. Some prayers are also included for those who wish to incorporate their readings within a more formal structure.

Why do we worship in the way that we do? Why do we say thee and not you and does it matter? Why is the Gospel traditionally read from the middle of the church and not the lectern? What does it mean when the groom promises "with my body I thee worship" or when we undertake to become "a living sacrifice"? These questions and many more are discussed in my new book which takes you through each of the services in the Book of Common Prayer before going on to look at the same in Common Worship. What has changed and why? What do the alterations tell us about the Church today and its attitude to the Scriptures and tradition? How do the new services reflect the Thirty Nine Articles? Has Common Worship rendered the Book of Common Prayer obsolete? Written in easy to understand language, this book will help all Anglicans to gain a deeper understanding of their faith and to experience worship in a new way. It also offers suggestions on developing private devotions and a brief account of how the Book of Common Prayer came into being.

The sudden fall and brutal execution of Queen Anne Boleyn in 1536 was an event which startled contemporaries. Present in London at the time was a young French priest named Lancelot de Carles who composed an account of the event. His work tells of Anne's youth spent in France, her romance with Henry VIII, the birth of Elizabeth I and tells how the shocking accusations against her came to be made. It describes public reaction to the events, what happened at the trials of Anne and her alleged lovers and what took place on the scaffold. Made available for the first time in modern English, this volume presents the entire text of Lancelot de Carles' work together with an introduction which seeks to put it in context with Anglo-French politics at the time.

Have you ever wanted to find a 6-letter word when all you knew was that the second letter was B or to find a 9-letter word which began with A and ended with S? This book provides lists of words sorted by length and by the second, third and last letter. There are also lists of words using the hundred most common suffixes in the English language and words using double letters. An essential reference for puzzle enthusiasts and compilers, this volume will provide the help you need in an easily accessible form.

Abraham Ortelius was a map maker in the 1500s in Antwerp. His chief claim to fame was that he made the first map book, now called an atlas. Abraham had a huge circle of family, colleagues, friends and acquaintances. He was an avid humanist who met regularly to discuss humanist issues. His friends included geographers and map makers, printers, painters, engravers, poets and clergymen who lived all over Europe; many of them were also well known figures. He travelled Europe to obtain maps and to further his many other interests. Politics, both church and state, made the Netherlands an unsafe place to live during the sixteenth century, as Spain sought to control the Netherlands and the Catholic Church and headed the Inquisition. Abraham found it necessary on several occasions to flee what was happening in Antwerp at the time. While based on fact, this is essentially a fictional story.