Corpus troporum
Bryan Spinks is one of the world's leading scholars in the field of liturgy. Like the author's previous work on Baptism, this will become a standard work about the Eucharist and Eucharistic theology worldwide. The book, a study of the history and theology of the Eucharist, is th…
Bryan Spinks is one of the world's leading scholars in the field of liturgy. Like the author's previous work on Baptism, this will become a standard work about the Eucharist and Eucharistic theology worldwide. The book, a study of the history and theology of the Eucharist, is th…
Fōs ilaron: Christushymnus und Lichtdanksagung der frühen Chr…
by Plank, Peter
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The rise of early Christianity has been examined from a myriad of perspectives, but until recently ritual has been a neglected topic. Ritual and Christian Beginnings: A Socio-Cognitive Analysis argues that ritual theory is indispensable for the study of Christian beginnings. It …
The dramatic liturgy of Anglo-Saxon England
"In this book Ann W. Astell explores the ambiguity of the phrase "eating beauty." The phrase evokes the destruction of beauty, the devouring mouth of the grave, the mouth of hell. To eat beauty is to destroy it. Yet in the case of the Eucharist the person of faith who eats the H…