Do this in remembrance of me : the Eucharist from the early church to the present day / Bryan D. Spinks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spinks, Bryan D., author.

Contributor:

Charlton Yarnall Fund.

Yarnall Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

SCM studies in worship and liturgy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lord's Supper--History.

Lord's Supper.

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 514 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : SCM Press, 2013.

Contents:

Foreword / Teresa Berger

Introduction: In search of the meals behind the Last Supper: cultural background and eucharistic origins

Some early eucharistic practices and beliefs from Ignatius to Origen

The shaping of early eucharistic prayers: 'paleoanaphoras'

Eucharistic theologies in the fourth- and fifth-century homilies and the emergence of the classical Anaphora

The Egyptian anaphoral traditions and the Divine Liturgy of the Coptic Orthodox Church

The Eucharist and Anaphoras of the Byzantine synthesis

The Syriac liturgical traditions

The Ethio-Eritrean ('ge'ez') and Armenian traditions

The classical Western rites

From the Romano-Western synthesis to the Tridentine reforms: liturgy, commentaries and eucharistic theologies

Luther and Lutheran eucharistic liturgies

The Reformed tradition: from Ulrich Zwingli to Eugène Bersier

The Anglican tradition: from Thomas Cranmer to the Tractarian disputes

The radical Reformation and some new churches of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

The twentieth-century liturgical and ecumenical movements: from Vatican II to 'Lima' 1982

Some trends in a postmodern era

Afterword: Some crumbs from beneath the table

Appendix I. The classical anaphoral families.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-501) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charlton Yarnall Fund.

ISBN:

9780334043768

033404376X

OCLC:

858310198

Publisher Number:

99956676395