This text re-examines the great variety of liturgical practices in the first four centuries in the light of modern Jewish and Christian scholarship. This new edition takes account of the new research in the field that has taken place since the book was first published, with additional chapters on "Minisrty and Ordination" and "The Effects of the Coming of Christendom in the Fourth Century".

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Religion & Spirituality

Paul F. Bradshaw

Christian Books & Bibles

SPCK.

A straight-forward, readable introduction to worship in the first four centuries of the church's existence. How did early Christians see and understand their own worship? How did this interact with early Christian beliefs? The book has been brought up to date and revised, with some chapters rewritten and an updated bibliography.

Early Christian Worship: An Introduction to Ideas and Practice

FisicalBook

Paul Bradshaw, one of the world's foremost scholars on the history of Christian liturgy, has shared this expertise in several works that have become standard texts for students of liturgy. In Rites of Ordination, Bradshaw turns his attention to the ways that Christians through the ages have understood what it means to ordain someone as a minister and how that has been expressed in liturgical practice. Bradshaw considers the typological background to ordained ministry some have drawn from the Old Testament and what ministry meant to the earliest Christian communities. He explores the ordination rites and theology of the early church, the Christian East, the medieval West, the churches of the Reformation, and the post-Tridentine Roman Catholic Church.

Rites of Ordination: Their history and theology

SPCK and Sheldon Press

<p>In his Preface, Bradshaw notes that "It may come as something of a surprise to some readers to hear that there are at least two ways of praying - with different concepts of what prayer itself is. So dominant has one particular spirituality become in nearly all Christian traditions today that many people are completely unaware that there might be such a thing as a liturgical spirituality or another way of understanding or organizing their worship and prayer life. This book has been written, therefore, primarily to open up that other way of praying to a wider audience and show what it has to offer is an important complement to the understanding of prayer with which Christians are generally familiar."</p>

Two Ways of Praying

OSL Publications

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Early Christian Worship: An Introduction to Ideas and Practice

Rites of Ordination: Their history and theology

Two Ways of Praying