The Book of Common Prayer of 1662 is among the most beloved liturgical texts in Christian history, still used worldwide in public worship and private devotion, and revered for its theology and its English alike.

But the classic text presents real difficulties for contemporary users, particularly outside England: state prayers for a particular monarch, archaic conventions, and a lectionary tied to another century. Samuel L. Bray and Drew Nathaniel Keane have prepared this international edition so that the prayer book can be used as it was meant to be - by all Christians, in all nations.