Documents of the Baptismal Liturgy / Edition 3

by E C Whitaker, Maxwell E Johnson

Overview

Since its first appearance in 1960, Documents of the Baptismal Liturgy has been praised and used by scholars in understanding how the rite of baptism was celebrated through the centuries. This new edition retains the sources previously included and adds Eastern Christian texts from the great East Syrian Church Fathers, as well as selections from The Rite of the Assyrian Church of the East, the Syrian Orthodox Church, and the Maronite Rite. Additional Western texts include the famous Pentecost Homily attributed to Faustus of Riez, Letter 26 to Januarius from Pope Gregory I, and the Rite of Confirmation from the Pontifical of William Durandus.

Instead of placing local councils together in one section, individual councils are now placed in their respective geographic locals. Bibliographical lists in a variety of languages have been added for each document studied or for each locale; and translations have often been replaced with more recent versions. The glossary and the introductions to each document make it accessible to the general, as well as the specialist, reader.

Chapters are The Ante-Nicene Church," *Syria, Syro-Palestine, Antiochia, - *The Rite of the Assyrian Church of the East, - *The Armenian Rite, - *The Syriac-Maronite Rite, - *The Byzantine Rite, - *Egypt, - *Africa, - *Spain, - *Milan, - *Rome, - *Galican Documents, - and *The Sarum Rite. -

E. C. Whitaker served as a parish priest and Canon Emeritus of Calisle Cathedral, England.

Maxwell E. Johnson, Ph.D., is a minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and is professor of liturgy in the department of theology at the University of Notre Dame.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814662007
Publisher:	Liturgical Press
Publication date:	11/01/2003
Series:	Pueblo Books
Edition description:	3rd Revised and Expanded ed.
Pages:	309
Product dimensions:	5.47(w) x 8.49(h) x 1.03(d)

About the Author

Maxwell E. Johnson is professor of liturgy at the University of Notre Dame and a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The author or editor of twenty-five books and of more than ninety articles and essays, he is also a past president of the North American Academy of Liturgy, serves as an editorial consultant for Worship, and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Ecclesia Orans.

Table of Contents

	Preface	vii
	Acknowledgements	ix
	Abbreviations	xi
	Introductory Essay: The Study of the Rites of Christian Initiation Today	xiii
1.	The Ante-Nicene Church	1
	The Didache	1
	Justin Martyr	2
	The Apostolic Tradition ascribed to Hippolytus of Rome	4
	Tertullian	8
	Cyprian	12
	Didascalia Apostolorum	14
	The Acts of Judas Thomas	15
	The Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena	21
2.	Syria, Syro-Palestine, Antiochia	23
	The History of John the Son of Zebedee	23
	St Cyril of Jerusalem	26
	The Pilgrimage of Egeria	33
	The Apostolic Constitutions	35
	St John Chrysostom	40
	Theodore of Mopsuestia	47
	Aphrahat	51
	Ephrem	52
	Narsai	54
	Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite	60
	James of Edessa	62
3.	The Rite of the Assyrian Church of the East	63
4.	The Armenian Rite	73
5.	The Rite of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	82
6.	The Syriac-Maronite Rite	99
7.	The Byzantine Rite	109
1.	The Barberini Euchologion fol. 260ff.	109
2.	The Barberini Euchologion fol. 170ff.	114
8.	Egypt	124
	The Prayers of Sarapion of Thmuis	124
	Timothy, Bishop of Alexandria	127
	The Canons of Hippolytus	129
	The Coptic Rite	132
9.	Africa	140
	Local African Councils	141
	St Augustine of Hippo	142
	The Rite of Carthage	149
10.	Spain	153
	Local Councils in Spain	153
	St Isidore of Seville	158
	St Hildephonsus of Toledo	160
	The Liber Ordinum	164
11.	Milan	176
	St Ambrose	176
	The Ambrosian Manual	183
	Beroldus	198
12.	Rome	204
	Councils and Letters	205
	The Verona [Leonine] Sacramentary	206
	John the Deacon	208
	The Gelasian Sacramentary	212
	Ordo Romanus XI	244
	The Rite of Confirmation in the Pontifical of William Durandus	252
13.	Gallican Documents	254
	Local Gallican Councils	255
	The Missale Gothicum	258
	The Letters of St Germanus of Paris	263
	The Bobbio Missal	265
	The Stowe Missal	274
14.	The Sarum Rite	284
	Glossary	308

Editorial Reviews

The Church can only benefit from a concerted attempt on the part of all believers to understand more fully the diversity of what all of our brothers and sisters in Christ believe and practice, and this sort of ecumenical conversation can be greatly aided by a work such as the one that E.C. Whitaker compiled forty-four years ago, and that Maxwell Johnson has helped to make available once again.
Stone—Campbell Journal


This is a most useful addition to liturgical study.
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