The Study of Liturgy

by Jones, Cheslyn; Yarnold, Edward; Wainwright, Geoffrey; Bradshaw, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780195209228
• ISBN10: 0195209222
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-10-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Completely revised to incorporate new scholarship and many important developments in liturgical renewal, this standard text remains an essential tool for students of theology and liturgy. It treats the development of the liturgy historically, beginning with Jewish antecedents, then covering the New Testament, Patristic, Medieval, and Reformation periods, and concluding with the increasing interest in liturgy in all churches today. The text deals definitively with the five central rites of Christian worship: Initiation, the Eucharist, Ordination, the Daily Office, and the Calendar. A special section on liturgical settings examines in detail the historical importance of music and singing in the liturgy and the role of hymnody in Christian worship. Reflecting the continuing trend towards ecumenism, the editors represent the Anglican, Roman Catholic, and Protestant traditions, while the Orthodox tradition is represented by the team of contributors, which includes many of the best-known liturgical scholars.

Table of Contents

Theology and Rite

A Theology of Worship, J.D. Crichton

The Word of God in Worship: Preaching in Relationship to Liturgy

Ritual, Mark Searle

The Development of the Liturgy

General Introduction

The Periods of Liturgical History

The Jewish Background to Christian Worship

The Letter of Pliny

Gnosticism

The Mysteries

The Didache

The Apostolic Tradition, The Editors

Church Orders

The Euchologium of Sarapion

Baptismal Catechesis

Egeria's Pilgrimage

Liturgical Books

Thomas Cranmer and the Prayer Book

The Prayer Book after Cranmer

Initiation

From New Testament Times until St. Cyprian

The Early Syrian Rites

The Fourth and Fifth Centuries

The West from about AD 500 to the Reformation

The Byzantine Rite

Lutheran, Anglican, and Reformed Rites

The Radical Reformation

The Modern Period, Peter Hinchliff, Rev.

The Eucharist

The New Testament

From the Apostolic Fathers to Irenaeus

The Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus

The Anaphora of Addai and Mari

The Liturgy of the Word in the Early Church

The Liturgy of the Faithful in the Fourth and Early Fifth Centuries

The Patristic Theology of the Eucharist

The Byzantine Liturgy from the Apostolic Constitutions to the Present Day

The Medieval Western Rites

From Trent to Vatican II

Protestantism and the Eucharist

The Anglican Eucharist: From the Reformation to the Restoration

The Eucharist in Anglicanism after 1662

Methodism

Recent Eucharistic Revision

Ordination

Orders and Ordination in the New Testament

The Tradition of the Ordination in the Second Century to the Time of Hippolytus

Theology and Rite, AD 200-400

The Early History of the Roman Rites of Ordination

Eastern Rites of Ordination

Medieval Ordinations

Reformation Churches

Recent Developments

The Divine Office

The First Three Centuries

The Formative Period--Cathedral and Monastic Offices

The Office in the West: The Early Middle Ages

The Office in the West: The Later Middle Ages

The Office in the West: The Roman Rite from the Sixteenth Century

The Office in the Anglican Communion

The Office in the Lutheran, Reformed, and Free Churches

The Calendar

The History of the Christian Year

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