Bradshaw: Early Christian Worship: A Basic Introduction to Ideas and Practice (2nd edition)
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Early Christian Worship: A Basic Introduction to Ideas and Practice (2nd edition) by Paul Bradshaw. Paul Bradshaw is a top scholar on the history of worship - one who writes in a style that is understandable to the average reader.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0814633668/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tpbk_p1_i1
Amazon blurb: Early Christian Worship is a straightforward, readable introduction to worship in the first four centuries of the church's existence. How did early Christians see and understand their own worship? How did this interact with early Christian beliefs? The book has been brought up-to-date and revised, with some chapters rewritten and an updated bibliography.
Paul F. Bradshaw is professor of liturgy at the University of Notre Dame, and priest-vicar of Westminster Abbey and a member of the Church of England Liturgical Commission. He is the author or editor of several major books (The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship, Eucharistic Origins, Reconstructing Early Christian Worship, The Study of Liturgy, A Companion to Common Worship, volumes 1 and 2).
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0814633668/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tpbk_p1_i1
Amazon blurb: Early Christian Worship is a straightforward, readable introduction to worship in the first four centuries of the church's existence. How did early Christians see and understand their own worship? How did this interact with early Christian beliefs? The book has been brought up-to-date and revised, with some chapters rewritten and an updated bibliography.
Paul F. Bradshaw is professor of liturgy at the University of Notre Dame, and priest-vicar of Westminster Abbey and a member of the Church of England Liturgical Commission. He is the author or editor of several major books (The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship, Eucharistic Origins, Reconstructing Early Christian Worship, The Study of Liturgy, A Companion to Common Worship, volumes 1 and 2).
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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