Eucharistic Liturgies

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.Maxwell E. Johnson is emeritus professor of liturgy at the University of Notre Dame and a retired presbyter in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. His numerous publications are on the origins and development of early Christian liturgy, contemporary rites, and current ecumenical and theological questions in both East and West. He is the author and/or editor of more than twenty-five books and over one hundred essays and articles. He is also a former president of the North American Academy of Liturgy, a member of the Society of Oriental Liturgy, a member of Societas Liturgica, and a member of the scientific advisory board for the journal Ecclesia Orans. He has received the Berakah Award from the North American Academy of Liturgy and the Christus Rex Award from the Liturgical Studies Institute at Valparaiso University.

• ContentsList of Abbreviations   ixAcknowledgments   xIntroduction   xiiiChapter 1: Origins   1Chapter 2: The Second and Third Centuries   25Chapter 3: The Fourth and Fifth Centuries: Historical Context and Rites   61Chapter 4: The Fourth and Fifth Centuries: Questions in Anaphoral Development and Eucharistic Theology   111Chapter 5: The Christian East   137Chapter 6: The Medieval West   193Chapter 7: The Protestant and Catholic Reformations   233Chapter 8: The Modern Period   293Index   358

The Eucharistic Liturgies is an invaluable sourcebook for liturgical studies and is fully able to serve as a standard text in the field.Anne M. Carpenter, Marquette University