Liturgical ritual was a major element of the Christian cultures of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. This was especially true of Byzantium, where court and church ritual, often intertwined, achieved a splendour unparalleled by any other aspect of civic or religious life. In this volume Robert Taft has brought together a series of studies on the formation and development of these rites and on the meaning they had for contemporaries. Particular articles look at the role of Jerusalem, Constantinople, then Mt Athos, in this process, and at the liturgy of St John Chrysostom. Also included are two important studies focusing on the role of the bema in the Syriac Church.

Liturgy in Byzantium and Beyond (Variorum Collected Studies)

History

Taft, Robert F.

World

Routledge

In obedience to Jesus' command, 'Do this in remembrance of me', the ritual repetition of the Lord's Supper down through the ages and across multiple Christian cultures in the liturgies of East and West, has given rise, inevitably, to innumerable diversities of shape, text, cultural context, and theological interpretation, as well as to debates, sometimes heated, among modern experts as to the methodologies for resolving the problems arising from these differences. The problems of cultural history, structural, historical, and textual reconstruction, theological interpretation, and method involved in the modern scholarly debate on these issues, are the object of the studies in this volume, dedicated to the liturgies of Byzantium, Armenia, Syria, and Palestine.

Divine Liturgies - Human Problems in Byzantium, Armenia, Syria and Palestine (Variorum Collected Studies)

Africa

LE RITE BYZANTIN

Religion & Spirituality

Laporte, Jean

Christian Books & Bibles

CERF

The first edition of this work, hailed by reviewers worldwide as a major contribution to the history of liturgy, sold out within two years of publication. The author goes beyond the Byzantine Eucharist to provide a densely packed treatment of the history of the transfer of gifts and preparation for the anaphora in early and eastern liturgy.

A History of the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom: The Great Entrance: a History of the Transfer of Gifts and Other Pre-anaphral Rites (Orientalia Christiana Analecta)

Oriental Institue Pr

This study comprises the second volume of a projected five-volume history. The term “diptychs” is used here in its proper technical sense for the diaconal proclamations found either in the anaphora or preanaphora of eastern eucharistic liturgies. No one has previously attempted a detailed historico-liturgical analysis of this important unit of Late Antique Byzantine Liturgy. That is what this short monograph attempts.

A History of the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom Volume IV: The Diptychs (Orientalia Christiana Analecta)

Politics & Social Sciences

Archaeology

Pontifical Oriental Institute

<p>Explores the Byzantine Eucharistic liturgy - its beauty, mystery and apparent total lack of logic. This work uncovers the roots of liturgy in Eastern and Western Christianity from historical, theological and practical points of view.</p>

Beyond east and west. Problems in liturgical understanding

Edizioni Orientalia Christiana Pontifical Oriental Institute

Employing the methods of Comparative Liturgy, Taft locates his study of the Byzantine tradition within the broader context of liturgical history. The analysis of each liturgical component of the Byzantine precommunion and the respective accompanying formulas is accompanied at each step by an analysis of the pre-Byzantine evidence in the patristic and historical sources, and of later developments in the context of the relevant traditions. Consequently this book provides a veritable encyclopedia of material concerning the precommunion rites across the traditions of East and West, making it of interest to students of liturgy in general.

A History of the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom: The Precommunion Rites

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