Religion

Taking a wider historical scope, this booklet examines the auditory environment and the temple of Herod as well as first century synagogues. Music in borrowed spaces and house churches of early Christianity conclude the study.

The deliberate use of the title 'President' for the celebrant of the eucharist in the modern language rites of the Church of England demonstrates a change in understanding of not only the role of the priest/bishop, but of the whole people of God in the liturgical assembly.

A text for Students, with an introduction, translation and commentary.

A study of Extended Communion, Sunday Worship in the Absent of a Priest, and similar services. This looks at the development of the services and their use in a variety of churches. Texts are also provided from some of the authorised services.

Studies in Preparation for the 1995 Dublin Consultation.

With Introduction, Papers read at Kanamai, and a first Response.

An artful examination of the baptismal font and its place in ancient and modern Christianity. The basic concepts of water and baptism are also explored.

An homage to Anton Baumstack and his comparative liturgy. This brief study includes an intellectual biography and his method and comparative practice in regards to liturgy.

This booklet explores the Christianity of the days before it became an official religion of the Roman Empire. It considers the impact of various areas of church life in this initial state.

Christian initiation, eucharistic liturgy and anaphora, orders, hours, and the liturgical year of the early Christian church in Egypt are the subject of this booklet.

Issues associated with ecumenism and the reception of other Christians in Anglicanism and other associated concerns form the topic of this brief examination.

Brings together two seminal articles from Studia Liturgica by the author with other evidence from disparate sources, and provides a powerful monograph about an area little studied by most scholars.

This study collates the scattered evidence in the New Testament patristic literature for its practice, and examines its spiritual and quasi-sacramental significance, including its relation to the role of the Spirit.

Henry Everett, Paul Bradshaw and Colin Buchanan combine to provide a post-Reformation overview of the changes and tendencies in the English Coronation service, including an astringent look at the likely future needs.

Essays and Reports from the Interim Conference at Jarvenpaa, Finland, of the International Anglican Liturgical Consultation, 4-9 August 1997.

The Liturgy of St James is used by a number of churches. This gives the Greek, Syriac and Reformed (Mar Thoma Syrian Church) texts in parallel columns for comparison.

With the 1552 prayer book the weaponry of the earlier liturgical works changed. This booklet discusses the missals and canons up to the modern period.

Juliette Day read a fascinating paper on this subject at the SLS Conference in 1998, and has now turned it into a published Study. It is distinguished by her great care about issues of both topography and dating in relation to Palestine, and in the process she both corrects other scholars and gives a notable overview of a special period.

The author is the Milanese expert on the Ambrosian rite and this (with Volume 2) makes available in English very important material previously unknown.

This is a brilliant addition to the comprehensive range of patristic liturgical materials offered by this Series.

The division between the 'Usagers' and the 'Non-Usagers' is fairly well known, but is here clarified and charted in detail but within a view of the overall non-juring situation.

This is a Study which will open windows galore for Westerners, for not only is the history as recorded likely to cover ground untrodden by most English-speaking liturgists, but equally the surrounding field of study and its other scholarly occupants (who are laid heavily under contribution) will also be largely unknown.

The 1989 Kenyan eucharistic text has had much publicity, including its use at the opening service of the 1998 Lambeth Conference, but has had little in the way of introduction or commentary. These two authors, with much Kenyan experience and with encouragement from the key persons in Kenya, here provide the text with a valuable contextual exposition.

Whereas many studies suggest or presuppose some link between Christian liturgical origins and the practices of Judaism the Jewish sources are hard to find and understand for Christian students without any background in early Judaism and its literature. This book presents some of the relevant sources in clear English, with accompanying material which sets the sources in their context and introduces the student to the debate about the relationship between Jewish and early Christian liturgy.

The letter comes from the fourth century and is therefore very significant for studies of early Roman liturgical history - and is frequently quoted. Here the series provides the full text with translation and notes.