{{italics}} {{Short description|Traditional language service book of the Episcopal Church}}
'''''The Anglican Service Book''''' is an unofficial Anglican prayer book in traditional language which was first published in the United States in 1991. The book was compiled by a committee of priests, and published when David Moyer was rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Rosemont, Pennsylvania, United States.
==Overview==
The book's foreword states that "''The Anglican Service Book'' is a compilation of material from a number of sources focused around the structure of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer", a prayer book of the Episcopal Church in the United States.<ref>[http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/Anglican_Service_Book/#foreward "Foreword"], ''The Anglican Service Book'' (online version), Society of Archbishop Justus website.</ref> The other sources include the Anglican Missal, ''Book of Occasional Services, Saint Augustine's Prayer Book,'' and Sarum Missal.<ref name="Cavanaugh2011">{{cite book|author=Stephen E. Cavanaugh|title=Anglicans and the Roman Catholic Church: Reflections on Recent Developments|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5JBSw4m9azYC&pg=PT105|year=2011|publisher=Ignatius Press|isbn=978-1-58617-499-6|page=105}}</ref>
thumb|right|''The Anglican Service Book'' (1991)
The book was published to facilitate worship in the traditional language of Anglicanism, as the 1979 Book of Common Prayer provided this option for only some services such as the daily offices, Holy Communion, and funerals. The 1979 BCP did not provide traditional language services for baptism, marriage, ordination, Compline, or other pastoral offices.
==See also== {{Portal|Christianity}} *Anglo-Catholicism
==References== {{reflist}}
==Sources== {{refbegin}} * {{citation|title=The Anglican Service Book|year=1991|isbn=0-9629955-0-9}} {{refend}}
==External links== *[http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/Anglican_Service_Book/ ''The Anglican Service Book''] digitized by Richard Mammana *[https://archive.org/details/prospectus-for-the-anglican-service-book-1990 Prospectus for The Anglican Service Book] (1990) *David L. Moyer, ''[https://archive.org/details/concerning-the-asb_202311 Concerning the Anglican Service Book]'' (1991)
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