Daily liturgical prayer : origins and theology /

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Main Author: Woolfenden, Gregory W., 1947-2008
Format: Book
Language:English
Created: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2004.
Series:Liturgy, worship, and society.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction and survey of research
  • From evening to morning: biblical and patristic symbolism
  • The Church Orders
  • A brief summary of historical developments and geographical locations
  • From Jerusalem and the Palestinian monastic traditions to modern orthodoxy
  • The Jerusalem pattern of prayer in Cappadocia and Armenia
  • Vespers and matins in pre-Crusades Constantinople and later developments
  • The east Syrian/Chaldean tradition
  • The west Syrian and Maronite traditions
  • The daily prayer of the Coptic and Ethiopian churches
  • The Roman and Benedictine offices
  • The old Spanish offices
  • The Ambrosian and other non-Roman western traditions
  • The shape and theology of the office.