Product Description
by Maxwell E. Johnson (Editor), Megan Effron (Contribution by), Nathan Chase (Contribution by)
Further Issues in Eucharistic Praying in East and West is a collection of essays concerned with the origins, development, and theologies of early Eucharistic praying. For students and teachers of liturgy, as well as all who seek solid, up-to-date scholarship on Eucharistic liturgy and theology, this volume provides current research on a variety of Eucharistic prayers in the churches of East and West.
Essays and authors include:- Balancing Eucharistic Origins in the Work of Gordon Lathrop and Thomas O'Loughlin - Megan Effron
- Shaping the Classical Anaphoras of the Fourth through Sixth Centuries - Nathan P. Chase
- The Heis Theos Acclamations in the Barcelona Papyrus: A Eucharistic Liturgy without the Opening Line of the Christian Anaphoral Dialogue - Arsany Paul
- The Making of the Maronite Sharar: A Reception History for the Anaphora of Addai and Mari - Paul Elhallal
- The Egyptian Origins of the Anaphora in Mystagogical Catechesis V ascribed to Cyril of Jerusalem - Maxwell E. Johnson
- The Theology of Sacrifice in the Anaphora of Byzantine Basil - Lucas Christensen
- Authority and Confluence of Traditions in Aksum: The Heritage of the Anaphora of the ApostolicTradition in the Ethiopian Anaphora of the Apostles - Andrij Hlabse
- Vernacular Translation of the Roman Canon - Julia Canonico
- Igbo Translations of the Roman Canon: Inculturation or the Battle for the Soul of Latin? - Joachim Ozonze
- Recent Thoughts on the Roman Anaphora: Sacrifice in the CanonMissae - Maxwell E. Johnson
Author Biography
Maxwell E. Johnson is emeritus professor of liturgy at the University of Notre Dame and a retired presbyter in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. His numerous publications are on the origins and development of early Christian liturgy, contemporary rites, and current ecumenical and theological questions in both East and West. He is the author and/or editor of more than twenty books and over one hundred essays and articles. He is also a former president of the North American Academy of Liturgy, a member of the Society of Oriental Liturgy, a member of Societas Liturgica, and a member of the scientific advisory board for the journal Ecclesia Orans.
