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Go Forth, Christian Soul

by John Stuart Lampard

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
  • 13.8 x 13.9 x 1.6 cm

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The prayer ""Go forth Christian Soul, on your journey from this world"" has supported generations of Christians in the moments of their dying. In this original biography of the prayer known as the Proficiscere the author traces the history of this well-known text from its origins in eighth-century France to the present day. During 1,200 years of biography we meet an extraordinary range of people whose lives have affected or interacted with the life of the prayer. These include Thomas Cranmer, William Caxton, Cardinal Newman, General Gordon of Khartoum, Edward Elgar, and Cardinal Basil Hume. Versions of this famous prayer have found their way into contemporary funeral liturgies. The author draws on liturgical scholarship history and not least his own experiences as a minister to the dying. At the end of this biography you will never look on your own dying, or that of others around you, as you have before. You will be better prepared, at your death, to hear the words ""Go forth Christian Soul."" ""This is a fascinating and timely book: fascinating because it traces the life and meaning of what has come to be a much loved prayer, and timely because although the prayer was originally composed in the Middle Ages for use with the dying, it has been in recent centuries more frequently recited at funerals. People need to be helped to 'die well,' as Lampard argues, and I hope his book will open up new avenues for good pastoral practice that is backed up by the kind of rich learning on offer here."" --Kenneth Stevenson, Anglican Bishop of Portsmouth, England ""A whole book devoted to the history of just one ancient prayer for the dying may sound as if it is aimed only at specialist scholars, but John Lampard has succeeded in writing in such a way as to make it accessible and interesting to the ordinary reader, who will learn much here about changing attitudes towards death in the course of Christian history."" --Paul Bradshaw, Professor of Liturgy, University of Notre Dame, South Bend John Lampard is a Methodist minister in London and a former Local Preacher's Secretary in the Methodist Church. He is the author of several short books, as well as many articles and book reviews.
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  • Author

    John Stuart Lampard

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Wipf & Stock Publishers

  • Published

    January 2015

  • Weight

    282g

  • Dimensions

    13.8 x 13.9 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9781498207584

  • ISBN-10

    1498207588

  • Eden Code

    4919570

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