1st Edition
Divine Liturgies - Human Problems in Byzantium, Armenia, Syria and Palestine
By Robert F. Taft
Copyright 2001
316 Pages
by
Routledge
316 Pages
by
Routledge
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In obedience to Jesus' command, 'Do this in remembrance of me', the ritual repetition of the Lord's Supper down through the ages and across multiple Christian cultures in the liturgies of East and West, has given rise, inevitably, to innumerable diversities of shape, text, cultural context, and theological interpretation, as well as to debates, sometimes heated, among modern experts as to the... Read more
Contents: Preface; Problems in the History of Culture and Historical Reconstruction: Women at church in Byzantium: where, when - and why; Byzantine liturgical evidence in the Life of St. Marcian the Å’conomos: concelebration and the preanaphoral rites; The Armenian ’Holy Sacrifice (Surb Patarag)’ as a mirror of Armenian liturgical history; Problems of Anaphoral Structure and Interpretation: Some structural problems in the Syriac Anaphora of the Twelve Apostles I; Understanding the Byzantine anaphoral oblation; Ecumenical scholarship and the Catholic-Orthodox epiclesis dispute; Problems of Method: Quaestiones disputatae: the skeuophylakion of Hagia Sophia and the entrances of the liturgy revisited (parts I-II); The bematikion in the 6/7th-c. Narration of the Abbots John and Sophronius (BHGNA 1438w): an exercise in comparative liturgy; Comparative liturgy fifty years after Anton Baumstark (d. 1948): a reply to recent critics; Additional notes and comments; Indexes.
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Robert F. Taft
