Sanctus in the Eucharistic Prayer

Informationen zum Autor Bryan D. Spinks is Professor of Liturgical Studies and Pastoral Theology, Yale Divinity School. He is a former consultant to the Church of England Liturgical Commission, president emeritus of the Church Service Society of the Church of Scotland, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of Churchill College, Cambridge. Klappentext A historical investigation into one of the unsolved mysteries of Christian liturgy. Zusammenfassung The sanctus (the 'thrice holy' of Isaiah 6.3) is found in almost all eucharistic prayer! ancient and modern. Its origin as a constituent element in this prayer is one of the unsolved mysteries of Christian liturgy. In this study! Dr Spinks makes a careful investigation into its background and sources. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Bryan D Spinks, Bryan D. Spinks, Professor Bryan D. Spinks
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 18.07.2002
• EAN: 9780521526623
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52662-3
• Pages: 276
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Religion: général, ouvrages de référence; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Sciences humaines en général; RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christian Rituals & Practice / Worship & Liturgy, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, History of Religion, Church history, Christian liturgy, prayerbooks & hymnals, Prayers and liturgical material