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The Liturgy of the Hours in East and West

The Origins of the Divine Office and Its Meaning for Today

By: Robert F. Taft

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The Liturgy of the Hours in East and West

The Origins of the Divine Office and Its Meaning for Today

By: Robert F. Taft

The origins and development of the Divine Office are traced through both Eastern and Western branches of the Church, providing a wealth of historical and liturgical information. From the small beginnings of a few Christians in New Testament Jerusalem, the prayer of the Church spread, changing and evolving as it met and was assimilated by different cultures. This classic study is a major resource for the liturgical scholar.

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444

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Liturgical Press

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ISBN 10

0814614051

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9780814614051

Divine Liturgies - Human Problems in Byzantium, Armenia, Syria and Palestine

By: Robert F. Taft

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Divine Liturgies - Human Problems in Byzantium, Armenia, Syria and Palestine

By: Robert F. Taft

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 methodologies for resolving the problems arising from these differences. The problems of cultural history, structural, historical, and textual reconstruction, theological interpretation, and method involved in the modern scholarly debate on these issues, are the object of the studies in this volume, dedicated to the liturgies of Byzantium, Armenia, Syria, and Palestine.

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327

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Taylor & Francis

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1040242790

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9781040242797

The Byzantine Rite

A Short History

By: Robert F. Taft

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The Byzantine Rite

A Short History

By: Robert F. Taft

Much has been written regarding the western liturgy; the same cannot be said of the Byzantine liturgy. Father Taft contributes to a remedy of that shortfall through this work. In it he traces the origins of the Byzantine Rite during its period of formation: from its earliest recorded beginnings until the end of Byzantium (1453 c.e.). While the rite has undergone some change in the period since then, its outlines remain essentially the same.

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