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In History of the Liturgy, Metzger describes the most important phases of these changes. In describing the first millennium, he focuses on liturgy's essentials common to the Eastern and Western Churches. In describing the second millennium, he explains the deviations of the West…
"How great the differences between the Last Supper celebrated by Jesus and a pontifical high Mass at St. Peter's in Rome - and also between the early baptisms by immersion described in the Acts of the Apostles and the baptisms of babies in our parishes! Why such a change in the …
"How great the differences between the Last Supper celebrated by Jesus and a pontifical high Mass at St. Peter's in Rome - and also between the early baptisms by immersion described in the Acts of the Apostles and the baptisms of babies in our parishes! Why such a change in the …
The Jewish Roots of Christian Liturgy
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"The history of eastern Christian liturgy was truly a 'global' or 'trans-national' event and yet the purpose of these rituals within the broader medieval Mediterranean remains critically understudied, outside the rather specialized discipline of oriental liturgiology. One of the…
There has long been a need for a succinct and up-to-date account of the major doctrines and practices of the early church. This book fulfills that need in clearly tracing the emergence of the distinctive elements of the Christian tradition.
