Early Christian Worship: A basic introduction to ideas and practice - Softcover

Bradshaw, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0281063451 ISBN 13: 9780281063451

Publisher: SPCK Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

A straight-forward, readable introduction to worship in the first four centuries of the church's existence. How did early Christians see and understand their own worship? How did this interact with early Christian beliefs? The book has been brought up to date and revised, with some chapters rewritten and an updated bibliography.

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About the Author

Paul Bradshaw is Emeritus Professor of Liturgy at the University of Notre Dame and Priest-Vicar Emeritus of Westminster Abbey. He is a former President of Societas Liturgica and of the North American Academy of Liturgy.

Paul Bradshaw is Professor of Liturgy at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, U.S.A., and holds a Ph.D. from London University, a D.D. from Oxford University, and an honorary D.D. from the General Theological Seminary, New York. Between 1995 and 2008 he served as Director of Notre Dames London Undergraduate Program, and still teaches there periodically. He is an honorary Canon of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Indiana, priest-vicar of Westminster Abbey, and a member of the Church of England Liturgical Commission. He is also one of only two people ever to have been president of both the North American Academy of Liturgy (1993-94) and the international Societas Liturgica (1993-95), and from 1987 to 2005 he was editor-in-chief of the journal.

Edition details

• Publisher: SPCK Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0281063451
• ISBN 13: 9780281063451
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 112