anaphora

captures this truncation through a long discussion of the sacrificial language of liturgical texts (18 anaphoras), East and West, Protestant and Catholic.

Their topics include Clement of Alexandria and discourse, knowing God in the Theological Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus, patristic exegesis and the arithmetic of the divine from the apologists to Athanasius, trinitarian theology in early Christian anaphoras, theophany and the invisible God in theology and art, God and the poor, and God and storms.

Scholars are unanimous in agreeing it is one of the most ancient anaphoras in continuous use in the age-old Eastern Syrian Christendom of Mesopotamia since time immemorial," said Jesuit Fr.

Given that the mid-fourth century saw the emergence of the classical anaphoras, then the anaphora of Sarapion is rightly interpreted as belonging to that emergence.

Section 2 of part 1 discusses the sources of Egyptian liturgies, the anaphoras, and how they express the Christology in the context of worship.

The next section of the book deals with the origins of the anaphoras of the Alexandrian and Roman traditions.

Of the nine essays included here, two have been slightly revised since their first publication and two (on the epiclesis in East Syrian anaphoras and on the relationship of those prayers to modern liturgical revision) are actually new compositions appearing for the very first time.

Then in ten sweeping chapters, he takes the reader through the history of the Eucharist, in a broadly (but ecumenically) Roman Catholic perspective; the ecumenical dimension comes across in his use of non-Roman Catholic scholars, his openness to the riches of the Eastern Churches, and the rather Protestant-looking sample anaphoras which appear towards the end.

This important study on the common origin of two of the most influential Eastern anaphoras is a light revision of a Ph.D.

Ever since the discovery of the prayers attributed to Sarapion of Thmuis in the eleventh century Greek manuscript (Ms Lavra 149) by Dimitrievskij in 1894, and their publication by Georg Wobbermin, short and extended articles have appeared questioning the original sequence of the prayers, their authorship and orthodoxy, and, inevitably, the `original form' of the anaphora. In this thorough study of the prayer collection, based on a microfilm of Ms Lavra 149 rather than previous printed texts, Maxwell Johnson subjects the whole euchology to a full literary, liturgical, and theological analysis, and the result is a paradigm for this sort of liturgical research.