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Liturgy, Worship and Society Series


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The Liturgy, Worship and Society series provides a library of innovative scholarship in liturgical studies at a time of vital changes in liturgical life and vigorous debates in academia. The series highlights contemporary work in liturgical studies, attuned both to traditional scholarly inquiry and to recent and emerging questions. In particular, the series is committed to exploring the relationship between liturgical life in Christian churches worldwide and the broader cultural and social contexts in which worship takes place. By offering a thorough grounding in the historical and theological foundations of liturgy as well as determined attention to contemporary developments and concerns, the Liturgy, Worship and Society series is set to make a vital contribution not only to scholarship in liturgical studies but also to the practice of Christian worship in the world today.

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Richard Baxter's Reformed Liturgy A Puritan Alternative to the Book of Common Prayer

Richard Baxter's Reformed Liturgy: A Puritan Alternative to the Book of Common Prayer

1st Edition

By Glen J. Segger
November 28, 2016

The English Civil War and its aftermath was a time of human devastation, political uncertainty and religious instability. Amid the turmoil of those times, however, the Church of England also saw intense liturgical inventiveness. The Directory for Public Worship, Jeremy Taylor's Communion Office, ...

Christian Inculturation in India

Christian Inculturation in India

1st Edition

By Paul M. Collins
November 10, 2016

Drawing together international and Indian sources, and new research on the ground in South India, this book presents a unique examination of the inculturation of Christian Worship in India. Paul M. Collins examines the imperatives underlying the processes of inculturation - the dynamic relationship...

Anglican Confirmation 1662-1820

Anglican Confirmation: 1662-1820

1st Edition

By Phillip Tovey
October 19, 2016

Confirmation was an important part of the life of the eighteenth-century church which consumed a significant part of the time of bishops, of clergy in their preparation of candidates, and of the candidates themselves in terms of a transition in their Christian life. Yet it has been almost entirely ...

The Theory and Practice of Extended Communion

The Theory and Practice of Extended Communion

1st Edition

By Phillip Tovey
September 08, 2016

Three churches have recently produced liturgies for 'extended communion'. This is the distribution of previously consecrated elements at a public service by lay people or a deacon in the absence of a priest. This development began in the Roman Catholic Church with the Vatican 'Directory on Sunday...

Evangelicals, Worship and Participation Taking a Twenty-First Century Reading

Evangelicals, Worship and Participation: Taking a Twenty-First Century Reading

1st Edition

By Alan Rathe
November 20, 2014

In discussions of worship, the term ’participation’ covers a lot of ground. It refers not only to concrete acts in gathered liturgy, but also to some of the loftiest claims of Christian theology. In this book, Alan Rathe probes the ways in which North American evangelicals have in recent years ...

First Communion Ritual, Church and Popular Religious Identity

First Communion: Ritual, Church and Popular Religious Identity

1st Edition

By Peter McGrail
April 28, 2007

One of the most carefully prepared liturgies of any Roman Catholic parish's year is the celebration of 'First Communion'. This is the ritual by which seven- or eight -year-old children are admitted to the Eucharist for the first time. It attracts the largest congregations of any parish liturgy, and...

Eucharist Shaping and Hebert’s Liturgy and Society Church, Mission and Personhood

Eucharist Shaping and Hebert’s Liturgy and Society: Church, Mission and Personhood

1st Edition

By Andrew Bishop
April 06, 2016

The contemporary Church of England is wrestling with issues around the relationship between its worship and mission and relating both to wider society. Much of this hinges on an understanding of the nature of the Church. Gabriel Hebert's seminal book Liturgy and Society (1935) took as its subtitle,...

The Baptismal Liturgy of Jerusalem Fourth- and Fifth-Century Evidence from Palestine, Syria and Egypt

The Baptismal Liturgy of Jerusalem: Fourth- and Fifth-Century Evidence from Palestine, Syria and Egypt

1st Edition

By Juliette Day
April 28, 2007

Was Jerusalem, under her bishop Cyril, the source of liturgical innovations in the fourth century or was she simply following trends which also affected the liturgy of neighbouring provinces? In assessing these two established propositions in relation to baptism, Juliette Day undertakes a careful ...

The Rite of Christian Initiation Adult Rituals and Roman Catholic Ecclesiology

The Rite of Christian Initiation: Adult Rituals and Roman Catholic Ecclesiology

1st Edition

By Peter McGrail
August 23, 2013

In the wake of recent papal legislation, the various liturgies of the Roman Rite may today be celebrated in either their post-Tridentine or post-Vatican II forms. Whilst much discussion of this new situation focuses on purely liturgical issues, this book breaks new ground by arguing that the ...

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