A01=Gregory W. Woolfenden
Aeterne Rerum Conditor
Author_Gregory W. Woolfenden
baptismal spirituality
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Cathedral Office
Christian liturgy
East Syrian
ecclesiastical rites history
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Evening Psalm
Great Doxology
historical development of daily prayer
Holy Mountain
Kyrie Eleison
Light Ritual
Midnight Office
Modern Byzantine
monastic prayer traditions
Morning Office
Morning Praises
Morning Psalm
Night Office
Nunc Dimittis
office of hours
Paschal Vigil
patristic theology
Praise Psalms
Psalm Verses
Responsorial Psalm
Syrian Rite
Testament Canticles
Testamentum Domini
West Syrian
West Syrian Rite
West Syrian Tradition
Product details
- ISBN 9780754616016
- Weight: 630g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jul 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Tracing the origins of daily prayer from the New Testament and Patristic period, through the Reformation and Renaissance to the present, this book examines the development of daily rites across a broad range of traditions including: Pre-Crusader Constantinopolitan, East and West Syrian, Coptic and Ethiopian, non-Roman and Roman Western. Structure, texts and ceremonial are examined, and contemporary scholarship surveyed. Concluding with a critique of the present tenor of liturgical revision, Gregory Woolfenden raises key questions for current liturgical change, suggests to whom these questions should be addressed, and proposes that the daily office might be the springboard for an authentic baptismal spirituality. The author explores how prayer and poetic texts indicate that the thrust of the ancient offices was a movement from night to morning - from death to resurrection.
The Reverend Dr Gregory W. Woolfenden St Mary's Orthodox Church, Lorain, USA
