Liturgical Form of Worship

I have read a few books on worship and different forms. I would like to know any good books I am missing on the topic. I want to understand the theological and ecclesiological nature of the church as a liturgy and reformed standpoint. Thomas Cranmer shaped the liturgy of the church in his time, and Diarmaid MacCulloch has this to say of his efforts: “Cranmer’s prose shows a tremendous sense of how language can work to produce a play: a play performed countless times over centuries by millions on millions of people day by day, week by week, year by year. This is a play which has outperformed every drama by Shakespeare, Marlow, Ben Johnson, any playwright in the English language.” How does this kind of worship equate to the worship in Jesus' time? Does anyone have advice on this topic?

Liturgical-Missional: Perspectives on a Reformed Ecclesiology by Olav Fykse Tveit; Neal D. Presa

Christian Worship in Reformed Churches Past and Present by Lukas Vischer

Liturgical Theology by Simon Chan

The Church's Liturgy by Michael Kunzler

Thomas Cranmer: A Life. by Diarmaid MacCulloch

Introduction to Christian Worship 2nd ed By James F. White

Imagining the Kingdom How Worship Works by James K. A. Smith

Theology of Worship by Louis Weil

Introduction to Christian Liturgy by Frank C. Senn

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MJ. Smith

Alexander Schmemann's Introduction to Liturgical Theology - a foundational book
Dom Gregory Dix's The Shape of Liturgy - a foundational book
Aidan Kavanagh's On Liturgical Theology
David Fagerberg's Theologia Prima: What is Liturgical Theology?
Kevin Irwin's Context and Text: A Method for Liturgical Theology
Benjamin Williams and Harold Anstall's Orthodox Worship: A Living Continuity with the Synagogue, the Temple, and the Early Church
Emma O'Donnell's Remembering the Future: The Experience of Time in Jewish and Christian Liturgy
Meredith Gould's Why Is There a Menorah on the Altar? Jewish Roots of Christian Worship
Gail Ramshaw's Christian Worship: 100,000 Sundays of Symbols and Rituals
Paul Bradshaw and Lawrence Hoffmans' series Two Liturgical Traditions: 1. Making of Jewish and Christian Worship 2. 3. Sacred Sound and Social Change: Liturgical Music in Jewish and Christian Experience 4. Life Cycles in Jewish and Christian Worship 5. Passover and Easter: Origin and History to Modern Times
Arnold Rosenberg's Jewish Liturgy as a Spiritual System: A Prayer-by-Prayer Explanation of the Nature and Meaning of Jewish Worship
Eugene Fisher's The Jewish Roots of Christian Liturgy
Albert Gerhards and Clemens Leonhard's Jewish and Christian Liturgy and Worship: New Insights into Its History and Interaction
Hughs Old's The Patristic Roots of Reformed Worship
Jonathan Gibson and Mark Earngey's Reformation Worship: Liturgies from the Past for the Present

Combined with the bibliographies of what you have already read, this should get you going. Later, I could get you going on the history of particular rites.

MJ. Smith

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Some of the useful titles in Logos - not a curated list

Birkbeck, W. J., and G. R. Woodward, eds.

1917
The Acáthist Hymn of the Holy Orthodox Eastern Church. London; New York; Bombay; Calcutta; Madras: Longmans, Green and Co.

Evans, G. R., and J. Robert Wright
1991
The Anglican Tradition: A Handbook of Sources. London: SPCK.

Blunt, John Henry, ed.
1889
The Annotated Book of Common Prayer. Revised and Enlarged Edition. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.

Jensen, Robin M.
2012
Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianity: Ritual, Visual, and Theological Dimensions. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic.

St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology
2017
A Biblical Study of the Mass: Based on Journey through Scripture’s The Bible and the Mass. Steubenville, OH: St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology.

Barbee, C. Frederick, and Paul F. M. Zahl
2006
The Collects of Thomas Cranmer. Grand Rapids, MI; Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.

Summers, Thos. O.
1873
Commentary on the Ritual of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Nashville, TN: A. H. Redford, Agent.

Platten, Stephen, and Christopher Woods, eds.
2012
Comfortable Words: Polity and Piety and the Book of Common Prayer. SCM Studies in Worship and Liturgy. London: SCM Press.

O’Grady, Patrick B.
2016
Come, Let Us Worship: A Practical Guide to the Divine Liturgy for Orthodox Laity. Chesterton, IN: Ancient Faith Publishing.

Bradshaw, Paul, ed.
2001
A Companion to Common Worship, vol.1. Alcuin Club Collections. London: SPCK.

Bradshaw, Paul, ed.
2006
A Companion to Common Worship, vol.2. Alcuin Club Collections. London: SPCK.

Maas, A. J.
1892
A Day in the Temple. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder.

Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
2002
Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy: Principles and Guidelines. Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana.

Phan, Peter C., ed.
2005
Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy: Principles and Guidelines: A Commentary. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press.

Julius of Iona
1866
The Eastern Liturgy of the Holy Catholic, Apostolic, and Orthodox Church, Simplified, and Adapted for Use in the West. Euchologion. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.

Hammer, Reuven
1998
Entering the High Holy Days: A Guide to the Origins, Themes, and Prayers. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society.

O’Loughlin, Thomas
2015
The Eucharist: Origins and Contemporary Understandings. London; New Delhi; New York; Sydney: Bloomsbury.

Schmemann, Alexander
1987
The Eucharist: Sacrament of the Kingdom. Paul Kachur, tran. Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press.

Bradshaw, Paul F.
2004
Eucharistic Origins, vol.80. Alcuin Club Collections. London: SPCK.

Bevins, Winfield, and Scot McKnight
2019
Ever Ancient, Ever New: The Allure of Liturgy for a New Generation. Grand Rapids: Zondervan.

General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America
1908
An Explanation of the Common Service. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Philadelphia: General Council Publication House.

Schmemann, Alexander
2018
For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy, vol.I. St Vladimir’s Seminary Press Classics Series. Yonkers, NY: Saint Vladimir’s Seminary Press.

Brannan, Rick
2021
Fragments of Christianity: Fragmentary Witnesses to Early Christian Liturgies, Hymns, Homilies, and Prayers. Appian Way Press.

Leithart, Peter J.
2003
From Silence to Song: The Davidic Liturgical Revolution. Moscow, ID: Canon Press.

Schmemann, Alexander
1969
Great Lent. New York: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press.

O’Brien, John
1881
A History of the Mass and Its Ceremonies in the Eastern and Western Church. New York: The Catholic Publication Society Co.

Cooke, R. J.
1900
History of the Ritual of the Methodist Episcopal Church: With a Commentary on Its Offices. Cincinnati; New York: Jennings & Pye; Eaton & Mains.

Linman, Jonathan
2010
Holy Conversation: Spirituality for Worship. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press.

Archimandrite Vasileios of Stavronikita
1984
Hymn of Entry: Liturgy and Life in the Orthodox Church, vol.One. Christos Yannaras and Costa Carras, eds. Elizabeth Brière, tran. Contemporary Greek Theologians. Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press.

Gorman, Frank H., Jr
1990
The Ideology of Ritual: Space, Time, and Status in the Priestly Theology, vol.91. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series. Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press.

Smith, James K. A.
2013
Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works, vol.2. Cultural Liturgies. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic.

Schmemann, Alexander
2003
Introduction to Liturgical Theology. Asheleigh E. Moorehouse, tran. Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press.

Farley, Lawrence
2007
Let Us Attend: A Journey through the Orthodox Divine Liturgy. Ben Lomond, CA: Conciliar Press Ministries.

Fagerberg, David W.
2019
Liturgical Mysticism. Steubenville, OH: Emmaus Academic.

Davila, James R.
2000
Liturgical Works. Martin G. Abegg Jr. and Peter W. Flint, eds. Eerdmans Commentaries on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Grand Rapids, MI; Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.

Turner, Paul, and John W. Martens, eds.
2023
Liturgy and Life Study Bible. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press.

Von Hildebrand, Dietrich
2016
Liturgy and Personality. John F. Crosby, ed. Second English Edition. Steubenville, OH: The Hildebrand Project.

OʼMalley, Timothy P.
2014
Liturgy and the New Evangelization: Practicing the Art of Self-Giving Love. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press.

Martimort, A. G., ed.
1959
The Liturgy and the Word of God. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press.

Benson, Bruce Ellis
2013
Liturgy as a Way of Life: Embodying the Arts in Christian Worship. James K. A. Smith, ed. The Church and Postmodern Culture. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic.

Torevell, David
2004
Losing the Sacred: Ritual, Modernity, and Liturgical Reform. London; New York: T&T Clark.

Bexell, Oloph, ed.
2012
The Meaning of Christian Liturgy: Recent Developments in the Church of Sweden. Grand Rapids, MI; Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.

Keating, Thomas
2008
The Mystery of Christ: The Liturgy as Spiritual Experience. New York: Continuum.

Underhill, Evelyn
1938
The Mystery of Sacrifice: A Meditation on the Liturgy. London; New York; Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co.

St Germanus of Constantinople
1984
On the Divine Liturgy: Text, vol.8. John Behr, ed. Popular Patristics Series. Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press.

St Germanus of Constantinople
1984
On the Divine Liturgy: Translation, vol.8. John Behr, ed. Paul Meyendorff, tran. Popular Patristics Series. Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press.

Hefling, Charles C., and Cynthia L. Shattuck, eds.
2006
The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer: A Worldwide Survey. New York: Oxford University Press.

Provance, Brett Scott
2009
Pocket Dictionary of Liturgy & Worship. The IVP Pocket Reference Series. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic.

Marsh, Richard, ed.
2004
Prayers from the East: Traditions of Eastern Christianity. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press.

Mitchell, Leonel L.
1985
Praying Shapes Believing: A Theological Commentary on The Book of Common Prayer. New York; Harrisburg, PA; Denver: Morehouse Publishing.

Rempel, John D.
2020
Recapturing an Enchanted World: Ritual and Sacrament in the Free Church Tradition. Dynamics of Christian Worship. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic: An Imprint of InterVarsity Press.

Templeton, Julian, and Keith Riglin, eds.
2012
Reforming Worship: English Reformed Principles and Practice. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock.

Lamm, Norman
1998
The Shema: Spirituality and Law in Judaism. Philadelphia, PA: The Jewish Publication Society.

Ratzinger, Joseph
2000
The Spirit of the Liturgy. John Saward, tran. San Francisco: Ignatius Press.

Reid, Alcuin, ed.
2016
T&T Clark Companion to Liturgy. T&T Clark Companion. London; Oxford; New York; New Delhi; Sydney: Bloomsbury; Bloomsbury T&T Clark: An Imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

Bate, Herbert Newell, and Francis C. Eeles
1946
Thoughts on the Shape of the Liturgy, vol.XXIV. Alcuin Club Tracts. London: A. R. Mowbray & Co. Ltd.

Kellerman, Eli
2019
Understanding Jewish Ceremonial: Rites, Paraphernalia, Blessings. Moshe Kohn, ed. David Maisels, tran. Jerusalem: Carta Jerusalem.

Webber, Christopher L.
2003
Welcome to Sunday: An Introduction to Worship in the Episcopal Church. Harrisburg, PA; New York; Denver: Morehouse Publishing.

Old, Hughes Oliphant
2002
Worship: Reformed according to Scripture. Revised and Expanded Edition. Louisville, KY; London: Westminster John Knox Press.

Sundberg, Walter
2012
Worship as Repentance: Lutheran Liturgical Traditions and Catholic Consensus. Grand Rapids, MI; Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.

Reisinger, Ernest C., and D. Matthew Allen
2001
Worship: The Regulative Principle and the Biblical Practice of Accommodation. Cape Coral, FL: Founders Press.

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Christian Alexander

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This should keep me going for a good while. Thank you for this bibliography.