Tag: liturgical history
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Brief Book Review: Rome and the Invention of the Papacy
Anyone interested in the development of the papacy over these centuries, especially in its interrelation of Roman culture, developing theology, ecclesiology, and liturgy, should read this book.
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Brief Book Review: A History of Christian Conversion
“A presentation of conversion as a key expressive element in the way Christianity itself was perceived and communicated at any one time, place, and culture.”
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Brief Book Review: Invitation to Syriac Liturgy
“Reading a few selections each day from this book impresses the reader with the diversity and commonality of faith expressed by the body of Christ.”
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Thirteenth-Century Development of Corpus Christi (or: Of Studies, Liturgical, Part IV)
Another topic from the author’s Ph.D. candidacy examinations preparation.
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Varieties of liturgical studies, 1: Liturgical history
This is the first of four posts on the approaches to the liturgy that liturgical studies uses and on how they are integrated into one discipline. I see there being three main divisions to the field of liturgical studies, each of which can be approached according to multiple methods of its own. Each impinges on…