Geoffrey Wainwright / Karen B. Westerfield Tucker (eds.)

Gebundenes Buch

Oxford History of Christian Worship

Beschreibung

Presents the history of the origins and development of Christian worship. This book examines the liturgical traditions of Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant, and Pentecostal traditions across the world. It is useful to clergy, liturgists, and students and scholars of the liturgy, Christian theology, church history, and world history.

Autor

Geoffrey Wainwright is an ordained minister of the British Methodist Church, in addition to being the Cushman Professor of Christian Theology at Duke University Divinity School. He is the author of Doxology: The Praise of God in Worship, Doctrine, and Life (Oxford, 1980), coeditor of The Study of Liturgy (revised edition, Oxford and SPCK, 1992). Karen Westerfield Tucker is a United Methodist elder in the Illinois Great Rivers Conference, Professor of Worship at Boston University School of Theology, and Chair of the Worship and Liturgy Committee for the World Methodist Council. She is also Assistant Editor of Studia Liturgica journal.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 960
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 183mm x 55mm
• Gewicht: 2105g
• ISBN-13: 9780195138863
• ISBN-10: 0195138864
• Artikelnr.: 20783352

Rezensionen

"a magnificent volume" John Hinton, The Catholic Herald