Further Issues in Eucharistic Praying in East and West

Essays in Liturgical and Theological Analysis

Author(s): Maxwell E. Johnson, Megan Effron, Nathan P. Chase

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ISBN-13: 9780814669372

Number of Pages: 344

Published: 18/11/2023

Further Issues in Eucharistic Praying in East and West is a collection of essays concerned with the origins, development, and theologies of early Eucharistic praying. For students and teachers of liturgy, as well as all who seek solid, up-to-date scholarship on Eucharistic liturgy and theology, this volume provides current research on a variety of Eucharistic prayers in the churches of East and West.

Essays and authors include:

Balancing Eucharistic Origins in the Work of Gordon Lathrop and Thomas O’Loughlin – Megan Effron
Shaping the Classical Anaphoras of the Fourth through Sixth Centuries – Nathan P. Chase
The Heis Theos Acclamations in the Barcelona Papyrus: A Eucharistic Liturgy without the Opening Line of the Christian Anaphoral Dialogue – Arsany Paul
The Making of the Maronite Sharar: A Reception History for the Anaphora of Addai and Mari – Paul Elhallal
The Egyptian Origins of the Anaphora in Mystagogical Catechesis V ascribed to Cyril of Jerusalem - Maxwell E. Johnson
The Theology of Sacrifice in the Anaphora of Byzantine Basil – Lucas Christensen
Authority and Confluence of Traditions in Aksum: The Heritage of the Anaphora of the ApostolicTradition in the Ethiopian Anaphora of the Apostles – Andrij Hlabse
Vernacular Translation of the Roman Canon – Julia Canonico
Igbo Translations of the Roman Canon: Inculturation or the Battle for the Soul of Latin? – Joachim Ozonze
Recent Thoughts on the Roman Anaphora: Sacrifice in the CanonMissae – Maxwell E. Johnson

Maxwell E. Johnson, Megan Effron, Nathan P. Chase

Maxwell E. Johnson is emeritus professor of liturgy at the University of Notre Dame and a retired presbyter in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. His numerous publications are on the origins and development of early Christian liturgy, contemporary rites, and current ecumenical and theological questions in both East and West. He is the author and/or editor of more than twenty books and over one hundred essays and articles. He is also a former president of the North American Academy of Liturgy, a member of the Society of Oriental Liturgy, a member of Societas Liturgica, and a member of the scientific advisory board for the journal Ecclesia Orans.