{"id":61796,"date":"2023-05-06T07:03:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T12:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=61796"},"modified":"2023-05-14T19:21:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T00:21:21","slug":"61796","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/06\/61796\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief Book Review: <i>Historical Foundations of Worship<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Historical Foundations of Worship:<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Catholic Orthodox and Protestant Perspectives<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><strong>Edited by Melanie C. Ross and Mark A. Lamport<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61798 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/9781540962522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/9781540962522.jpg 290w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/9781540962522-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/9781540962522-267x400.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/>What is this book? <\/strong>This book is the second in the Baker <em>Worship Foundations<\/em> series (the earlier <em>Theological Foundations<\/em> volume is reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/30\/brief-book-review-theological-foundations-of-worship\/\">here<\/a>). It is an edited volume with essays by 18 authors from different liturgical traditions. It is divided into four sections dealing with different area of liturgical history: the common heritage of the early church, the Orthodox experience, the Roman Catholic experience and the Protestant experience. It provides a good introduction to the subject, but it is also offers a good refresher to non-beginners. The book is up to date and each chapter is written by experts in the particular area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Who\u2019s it for? <\/strong>The book is for any student of liturgy. It is written with the general US graduate student who is beginning their academic study of Christian liturgy in mind. But it can be profitably read by any interested reader and anyone who wants an up-to-date refresh of their understanding of liturgical history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>What difference will this book make? <\/strong>It provides a common basis for the study of liturgical history that can be appreciated by readers of any Christian tradition.\u00a0 This could be very helpful in a diverse classroom with students from many ecclesial backgrounds and fosters a deeper ecumenical scholarship with the majority of the authors writing from within the traditions they are describing. The introductory section that deals with the common early history is also a great starting point for all study of liturgical history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Why is this book significant \/ important <\/strong>This book is what it says on the tin, the title says it all: it provides the reader with an edited progression of chapters by individual authors on the Historical Foundations of Worship, from Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant Perspectives<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Why is this book useful \/ practical? <\/strong>It provides a one-volume history that in under 300 pages provides a manageable introduction to liturgical history. None of the chapters says everything, but all offer a good starting point and all of them provide suggestions for further reading.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Suggestion\/Quibble? <\/strong>A minor quibble, but I think there was a tendency to conflate all Eastern liturgical rites and traditions into the Byzantine. The section dealing with the Orthodox experience is the shortest with only two chapters. The essays do occasionally mention other rites, but these get very little attention.\u00a0 The section on Protestant experience has eight chapters (and Roman Catholicism has three); I would have appreciated another chapter in this section with a short introduction to each of the non-Byzantine Eastern rites.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Next steps. <\/strong>I am a huge fan of introductions and half the books I read are introductions of one sort or another. It\u2019s no surprise that I think that one introduction, no matter how good, is never enough. However, this book is as good a place as any to start. I would recommend that those for whom this is their first book on liturgical history, follow on with a few other general historical overviews, such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/the-oxford-history-of-christian-worship-9780195138863?cc=ie&amp;lang=en&amp;\">Oxford History of Christian Worship<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulistpress.com\/Products\/0604-2\/liturgy.aspx\">Liturgy: the Illustrated History<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ie\/books\/about\/A_Brief_History_of_Christian_Worship.html?id=mkapsSRfIGUC&amp;redir_esc=y\">A Brief History of Christian Worship<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/litpress.org\/Products\/2433\/History-of-the-Liturgy\">History of the Liturgy: The Major Stages<\/a>. Then the novice would be well served by some monographs on the common liturgical heritage of the early Church. After this they could continue reading about the time period, particular rite or denominational tradition that captures their interest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ross, Melanie C. and Mark A. Lamport, eds.<a href=\"http:\/\/bakerpublishinggroup.com\/books\/historical-foundations-of-worship\/401990\"><em>Historical Foundations of Worship: Catholic Orthodox and Protestant Perspectives<\/em><\/a>. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2022. xxiv + 294 pages. $29.99. ISBN: 9781540962522.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: right;\"><strong>REVIEWER<\/strong>: Neil Xavier O\u2019Donoghue<br \/>\nNeil Xavier O\u2019Donoghue is a priest<br \/>\nof the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, NJ, U.S.A.<br \/>\nHe currently serves as Director of Liturgical Programmes<br \/>\nin St. Patrick\u2019s Pontifical University, Maynooth, Co. 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