Bryan D. Spinks

The Sanctus in the Eucharistic Prayer

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A historical investigation into one of the unsolved mysteries of Christian liturgy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9780521526623
• ISBN-10: 0521526620
• Artikelnr.: 21451905

Autorenporträt

Brian D. Spinks is also the author of 'Freedom or Order? The Eucharistic Liturgy in English Congregationalism 1645-1980,' 'Sanctus in the Eucharistic Prayer,' 'Two Faces of Elizabethan Anglican Theology,' 'Rituals and Theologies of Baptism,' and 'Prayers from the East.' He is co-author of 'Worship in Transition' and co-editor of several more volumes.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction: the enigma of the sanctus
Part I: 1. The Old Testament background and setting
2. The worship of heaven and the qedussah in Judaism
3. Continuity and influence in early Christian documents
Part II: 4. The sanctus in the East Syrian and Syro-Byzantine eucharistic prayers
5. The sanctus in the Egyptian and western eucharistic prayers
6. The possible origins of the sanctus in the eucharistic prayer
Appendix: the literary forms of the sanctus
Part III: 7. Developments in east and west to the reformation
8. The reformation rites
9. Protestant and Anglican liturgies 1662-1960
10. The sanctus in some contemporary eucharistic prayers
11. The sanctus in perspective
Bibliography
Index.