AHC: English as an ecclesiastic/liturgical language

I don't have a single clue as to how you'd do it, but your challenge is to have English be a language used solely for religious purposes - like Latin, or Greek during certain points in Orthodox history - while the rest of the *Anglophone world speaks a different, although possibly related, language.
 
Isn't what part of KJV Only is all about? I'm not sure how exactly it could be reached, but maybe an (even) more right-wing and more lay (rather than secular) Anglo-American society could to it?
 
Isn't what part of KJV Only is all about? I'm not sure how exactly it could be reached, but maybe an (even) more right-wing and more lay (rather than secular) Anglo-American society could to it?
As far as I can tell thats just people arguing that the version of the Bible they use is the best, not at all related to having English solely used as a liturgical language.
 
As far as I can tell thats just people arguing that the version of the Bible they use is the best, not at all related to having English solely used as a liturgical language.
I was more thinking about KJV english being continuously used as a liturgical language by the KJO movement, including in service; while English still continues to evolve.
Beyond that, I admit I'm at loss on how to reach the OP.
 
I was more thinking about KJV english being continuously used as a liturgical language by the KJO movement, including in service; while English still continues to evolve.
Beyond that, I admit I'm at loss on how to reach the OP.
Ah, okay I see what you mean now. Also, this is posted in Before 1900 so you don't have to restrict yourself to recent events.
 
Ah, okay I see what you mean now. Also, this is posted in Before 1900 so you don't have to restrict yourself to recent events.
Point is, it would probably work out much better with a relatively recent PoD, probably with the rise of national identities. Before the XVIth, I'm not sure how you'd get it.
 
I don't have a single clue as to how you'd do it, but your challenge is to have English be a language used solely for religious purposes - like Latin, or Greek during certain points in Orthodox history - while the rest of the *Anglophone world speaks a different, although possibly related, language.

The Christianisation of England goes differently, and the Anglo-Saxon Church ends up using Old English for its worship services. These service books remain the same, even as the vernacular changes, so that by 2017 (Old) English is still in use, but only for liturgical purposes.
 
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