The Shape of the Liturgy, New EditionA new edition of Gregory Dix's masterpiece, still essenytial reading for students and scholars and in print constantly for fifty years. Dom Gregory Dix's classic account of the development of the Eucharist rite continues to be the definitive and authoritative work on the subject. He presents his massive scholarhsip in lively and non technical language for all who wish to understand their worship in terms of the framework from which it has evolved. He demonstrates the creative force of Christianity over the centuries through liturgy and the societies it has moulded. His great work has for nearly fifty years regularly been quoted for its devotional as well as its historical value, and has regularly attracted new readers. In this book for the first time, critical studies in the learned periodicals of many countries have been carefully sifted and the results arranged to give a clear picture of the development of the Eucharistic rite. |
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Contents
THE LITURGY AND THE EUCHARISTIC ACTION I | 1 |
THE PERFORMANCE OF THE LITURGY | 12 |
THE CLASSICAL SHAPE OF the LiturgyI | 36 |
EUCHARIST AND LORDS SUPPER | 48 |
THE CLASSICAL SHAPE OF THE LITURGYII | 103 |
THE PRENICENE BACKGROUND OF THE LITURGY | 141 |
THE EUCHARISTIC PRAYER | 156 |
The Syrian TraditionThe Liturgy of SS Addai and Mari | 204 |
THE SANCTIFICATION OF TIME | 303 |
THE DEVELOPMENT OF CEREMONIAL | 397 |
THE COMPLETION OF THE SHAPE OF THE LITURGY | 434 |
VARIABLE PRAYERS AT THE EUCHARIST | 527 |
THE MEDIAEVAL DEVELOPMENT | 546 |
CHAPTER PAGE | 603 |
THE REFORMATION AND THE ANGLICAN LITURGY | 613 |
THROUGHOUT ALL AGES WORLD WITHOUT END | 735 |
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