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This classic work, previously edited by Ronald Jasper and Geoffrey Cuming, has been a staple source in teaching liturgy to generations of students in colleges, seminaries, and universities. It has now been comprehensively revised for future generations of liturgical scholars.
Updates include:
– New introductions that take into account the substantial changes in recent scholarship
– New groupings of the various prayers into liturgical “families” in order to make their relationships clearer
– Plus, new bibliographies
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 professor of liturgy at the University of Notre Dame and a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The author or editor of twenty-five books and of more than ninety articles and essays, he is also a past president of the North American Academy of Liturgy, serves as an editorial consultant for Worship, and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Ecclesia Orans.
Bradshaw and Johnson are the co-authors of The Eucharistic Liturgies: Their Evolution and Interpretation; The Origins of Feasts, Fasts, and Seasons in Early Christianity; and, with L. Edward Phillips, The Apostolic Tradition: A Commentary, Hermeneia.
