The book should be seen in the context of Paul Bradshaw's earlier works: The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship and Eucharistic Origins. In this book he updates his thinking in this area, focussing on the origins of the Eucharist, Baptism and Daily Prayer. The controversial introductory chapter is entitled: Did Jesus Institute the Eucharist at the Last Supper?
How did early Christians see and understand their own worship? How did this interact with early Christian beliefs? The book has been brought up-to-date and revised, with some chapters rewritten and an updated bibliography.
... 155n17, 247n64, 252n78 McGowan, Andrew B., 30n, 34n, 36n, 39n25, 42n30, 43n, 44n, 48n37, 49n39, 84n50, 162n30, 177n, 192n22, 243n52, 251n74 McKay, Heather A., 220n9 McKinnon, James W., 115n5, 123n21, 205n44 McKnight, Edgar V., 86n54.
Refers to New Testament teachings while delineating the nature of early Christian worship of God.
Pattern in Early Christian Worship
"At the Origins of Christian Worship" can deepen readers' understanding of early Christian worship by setting it within the context of the Roman world in which it developed.
In Rites of Ordination, Bradshaw turns his attention to the ways that Christians through the ages have understood what it means to ordain someone as a minister and how that has been expressed in liturgical practice.
This is an excellent text for beginning students in liturgical studies at the master's level.
This text re-examines the great variety of liturgical practices in the first four centuries in the light of modern Jewish and Christian scholarship.
Their Evolution and Interpretation Paul F. Bradshaw, Maxwell E. Johnson ... 245–48; Marilyn McCord Adams, Some Later Medieval Theories of the Eucharist: Alongside these debates on the nature of the real presence, 227.
The chapters in this book cover baptism, in theology and practice, the Eucharist, with special emphasis on the symbolism of the elements, the significance of music and hymns, festivals and pilgrimage, use of the Scriptures, both what the ...