Geoffrey Wainwright / Karen B. Westerfield Tucker (eds.)

Oxford History of Christian Worship

Herausgegeben:Wainwright, Geoffrey; Tucker, Karen B. Westerfield

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This text is a comprehensive and authoritative history of the origins and development of Christian worship to the present day. Backed by an international roster of experts as contributors, it examines the liturgical traditions of Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, and Pentecostal.

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Presents the history of the origins and development of Christian worship. This book examines the liturgical traditions of Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant, and Pentecostal traditions across the world. It is useful to clergy, liturgists, and students and scholars of the liturgy, Christian theology, church history, and world history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 960
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 183mm x 55mm
• Gewicht: 2105g
• ISBN-13: 9780195138863
• ISBN-10: 0195138864
• Artikelnr.: 20783352

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey Wainwright is an ordained minister of the British Methodist Church, in addition to being the Cushman Professor of Christian Theology at Duke University Divinity School. He is the author of Doxology: The Praise of God in Worship, Doctrine, and Life (Oxford, 1980), coeditor of The Study of Liturgy (revised edition, Oxford and SPCK, 1992). Karen Westerfield Tucker is a United Methodist elder in the Illinois Great Rivers Conference, Professor of Worship at Boston University School of Theology, and Chair of the Worship and Liturgy Committee for the World Methodist Council. She is also Assistant Editor of Studia Liturgica journal.

Rezensionen

"a magnificent volume" John Hinton, The Catholic Herald