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Thursday, May 10, 2007

Attempts in Producing Chinese-English Bilingual Book of Common Prayer from the 1960s to the 1980s

See The Order for Holy Communion produced by the Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao in 1965 (http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/skh/bcp/hc1965.pdf) , and the more substantial effort The Book of Common Prayer (1976, 1983) by the Council of Church in East Asia. This later work, led by Bishop James Pong (Pang Deming) of Taiwan, was a serious attempt in integrating Chinese cultural heritage in the Prayer Book (http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/skh/bcp/dongyaben.pdf). It was regretably not adopted for general use after its release.

See also the source documents of Chung Hwa Sheng Kung Hui (Holy Catholic Church in China)http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/poon/index.htm , and Michael Poon's essay on Prayer Book Translation and the Birth of 'Sheng Kung Hui.