Gregory W. Woolfenden

Daily Liturgical Prayer

Origins and Theology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Tracing the origins of daily prayer from the New Testament and Patristic period, through the Reformation and Renaissance to the present, this book examines the development of daily rites across a broad range of traditions including: Pre-Crusader Constantinopolitan, East and West Syrian, Coptic and Ethiopian, non-Roman and Roman Western. Structure, texts and ceremonial are examined, and contemporary scholarship surveyed. Concluding with a critique of the present tenor of liturgical revision, Gregory Woolfenden raises key questions for current liturgical change, suggests to whom these questions should be addressed, and proposes that the daily office might be the springboard for an authentic baptismal spirituality. The author explores how prayer and poetic texts indicate that the thrust of the ancient offices was a movement from night to morning - from death to resurrection.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9780754616016
• ISBN-10: 0754616010
• Artikelnr.: 31304720

Autorenporträt

The Reverend Dr Gregory W. Woolfenden St Mary's Orthodox Church, Lorain, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Introduction and survey of research
From evening to morning: biblical and patristic symbolism
The church orders
A brief summary of historical developments and geographical locations
From Jerusalem and the Palestinian monastic traditions to modern orthodoxy
The Jerusalem pattern of prayer in Cappadocia and Armenia
Vespers and matins in pre-crusades Constantinople and later developments
The East Syrian/Chaldean tradition
The West Syrian and Maronite traditions
The daily prayer of the Coptic and Ethiopian churches
The Roman and Benedictine offices
The old Spanish offices
The Ambrosian and other non-Roman western traditions
The shape and theology of the office
Bibliography
Indexes.