Byzantine Liturgical Reform
Author: Thomas Pott
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13:
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The Byzantine Rite
Author: Robert F. Taft
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9780814621639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuch has been written regarding the western liturgy; the same cannot be said of the Byzantine liturgy. Father Taft contributes to a remedy of that shortfall through this work. In it he traces the origins of the Byzantine Rite during its period of formation: from its earliest recorded beginnings until the end of Byzantium (1453 c.e.). While the rite has undergone some change in the period since then, its outlines remain essentially the same.
Introduction to Liturgical Theology
Author: Aleksandr Shmeman
Publisher:
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author has tried to define liturgical theology, noting especially its progress beyond liturgics, the study and comparison of texts, and showing how the dynamic realism of the Eucharistic liturgy has been often obscured in popular liturgical piety. These themes are developed in reference to the Ordo or shape of worship as it evolved in the Orthodox Church, from the very earliest years down to the 'crystallization' of worship in Byzantine Orthodoxy in the ninth-twelfth centuries.
Of Water and the Spirit
Author: Alexander Schmemann
Publisher: St Vladimir's Seminary Press
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780913836101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of the Orthodox understanding of Baptism and Chrismation.
The Typikon Decoded
Author: Job Getcha
Publisher: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780881414127
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Byzantine liturgy, with its beauty, its richness, and its depth, intrigues, inspires, and fascinates a great number of today’s Christians; and yet it remains for many almost inaccessible if not incomprehensible. The Typikon, the liturgical book that contains the order of the liturgical celebration, is complex, whence the necessity of “decoding” it both for recent converts and for “cradle” Orthodox Christians desiring to deepen their liturgical observance. And that “decoding” is the goal of this book. Developed from courses given at the Institut Saint-Serge in Paris, it covers the celebration of the offices throughout the Byzantine liturgical year. The organization and composition of the liturgical offices are first situated in the context of their historical development, and then are analyzed in detail from a practical point of view. This explanation of Byzantine liturgical practice, the first of its kind in English, includes an extensive bibliography and comprehensive glossary."--Back cover.
Byzantine Monastic Foundation Documents
Author: John Philip Thomas
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780884022329
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe nature of the typkia, discussed by John Thomas in the introduction, was one of flexible and personal documents, which differed considerably in form, length, and content. Not all of them were foundation documents in the strict sense, since they could be issued at any time in the history of an institution. Some were wills; others were reform decrees and rules; yet others were primarily liturgical in character.
The Euchologion Unveiled
Author: Job Getcha, ARC
Publisher: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780881416350
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRussia, Ritual, and Reform
Author: Paul Meyendorff
Publisher: RSM Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780881410907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe reform of the liturgical books conducted in Muscovite Russia in the mid-17th century was an alignment of Russina liturgical usage with contemporary Greek practice. Historians have up to now generally accepted the official interpretation of the reform as a correcting made on the basis of ancient Greek and Slavic sources. In fact, the reform was based exclusively on contemporary sources chiefly the 1602 Venice Euchologion (Greek) and 17th century South-Slavic editions from Kiev and Striatin. Far from being a return to sources, or a correction, the reform consisted simply in the uncritical transposition of contemporary Greek practice onto Russian soil.
The Problem of the Liturgical Reform
Author: Angelus Press
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781892331090
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiturgy and Architecture
Author: Allan Doig
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-02
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1351921851
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book Allan Doig explores the interrelationship of liturgy and architecture from the Early Church to the close of the Middle Ages, taking into account social, economic, technical, theological and artistic factors. These are crucial to a proper understanding of ecclesiastical architecture of all periods, and together their study illuminates the study of liturgy. Buildings and their archaeology are standing indices of human activity, and the whole matrix of meaning they present is highly revealing of the larger meaning of ritual performance within, and movement through, their space. The excavation of the mid-third-century church at Dura Europos in the Syrian desert, the grandeur of Constantine's Imperial basilicas, the influence of the great pilgrimage sites, and the marvels of soaring Gothic cathedrals, all come alive in a new way when the space is animated by the liturgy for which they were built. Reviewing the most recent research in the area, and moving the debate forward, this study will be useful to liturgists, clergy, theologians, art and architectural historians, and those interested in the conservation of ecclesiastical structures built for the liturgy.
