Percy Dearmer Revisited

“Jared Cramer has done Anglicans a truly laudable service by introducing to new generations the absolutely singular figure of Percy Dearmer. It’s clear that Dearmer was a certain kind of prickly genius, and this volume allows us to see him resplendent in all his peculiarities and contradictions. Cramer allows Dearmer’s liturgical principles to probe us in our own practices, as we discern how the liturgy might best give glory to God in our own day.”


—Matthew S. C. Olver, Assistant Professor of Liturgics, Nashotah House Theological Seminary





“For those who think that Percy Dearmer’s work is primarily about riddel posts and appareled amices, Jared Cramer’s clear and insightful study provides a much-needed corrective. And for those who do not yet know Dearmer and his work, this introduction will whet your appetite for more. Cramer brings out of this treasure what is new as well as what is old, showing this nineteenth-century liturgist’s contemporary relevance for the twenty-first-century Episcopal Church and the questions we face today.”


—Jason A. Fout, Associate Professor of Anglican Theology, Bexley Seabury Seminary





“Cramer has provided a detailed, critical, but highly sympathetic reading of Percy Dearmer. Those interested in Anglican worship and Prayer Book renewal in our own time will find here much to reflect upon, engage, and consider.”


—J. Neil Alexander, Professor of Liturgy, University of the South