Reconstructing Early Christian Worship

by Paul Bradshaw

Overview

The book should be seen in the context of Paul Bradshaw's earlier works: The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship and Eucharistic Origins. In this book he updates his thinking in this area, focussing on the origins of the Eucharist, Baptism and Daily Prayer. The controversial introductory chapter is entitled: Did Jesus Institute the Eucharist at the Last Supper?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780281062973
Publisher:	SPCK Publishing
Publication date:	05/04/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	518 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Paul F. Bradshaw is emeritus professor of liturgy at the University of Notre Dame and an Anglican/Episcopal priest. The author or editor of over thirty books and of more than 120 articles and essays, he is also a past president both of the North American Academy of Liturgy and of the international Societas Liturgica. From 1987 to 2005 he was editor-in-chief of the scholarly journal Studia Liturgica.

 

Editorial Reviews

[Reconstructing Early Christian Worship] will be useful to both accomplished and beginning scholars, helping them to enter the historical discussion and illustrating—also by what it does not consider—how much work remains to be done and redone in liturgical history.
Gordon Lathrop, Worship

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