28/05/2026
A look inside our Spring 2026 Edition:
Our first research article, “‘Great Letters,’ ‘Fairer Letters’: A Theological-Bibliographical Investigation” from Charles Hefling, takes up what appears to be a narrow question about the typography of a single 1627 edition of the 1604 Book of Common Prayer and reveals its wider theological significance. Attending closely to the distinctive printing of Christ’s words of institution, Hefling situates the controversy within the turbulent ecclesial debates of the seventeenth century and shows how questions of type and form were inseparable from questions about the Eucharist and the nature of the Church. He further offers a careful and suggestive argument about the likely figure behind this typographical innovation, while dispelling a long-standing legend surrounding the edition itself.