This book is a tried-and-tested, straightforward, readable introduction to worship in the first four centuries of the church's existence. It describes what Christians actually did, but also explain…
The conventional view of scholars has tended to be that the Last Supper, as recorded in the New Testament, was both the source and the pattern for the early Christian Eucharist. 'Eucharistic Origin…
The study of liturgy used to mean studying what Christians did in the past and how worship traditions developed over the centuries. The focus was especially on liturgical texts. Now the spotlight i…
This book examines critically the sources for Christian liturgical practices in the first three centuries and discusses how these practices should be interpreted in order to avoid projecting modern…