Download PDF | The Oxford history of Christian worship / Geoffrey Wainwright, Karen B. Westerfield Tucker, editors OUP, 2006.
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Preface
Christian worship has a history of two thousand years and, by now, a global reach. This book traces its winding course and describes its varied manifestations in ways suited to the general reader as well as to historians, theologians, and scholars of religion in a broader sense. At the same time it provides a compendium for the use of teachers and students in the special field of liturgy and for those who have direct responsibility for the conduct of worship in their communities. After the manner of other Oxford histories, it combines fluent text, pictures, and boxed inserts.
The focus rests on the corporate worship of the Church, predominantly celebrated in cathedrals, parishes, and other congregational settings, though attention is given also to monastic communities. The presentations are largely descriptive, including liturgical texts but also going “beyond the text.” They treat concrete performances and set the liturgical actions within a particular cultural context. The emphasis falls on the principal Sunday service (whether word and eucharist or word alone), on events and occasions observing the main festivals, on the ceremonies of Christian initiation, on sacramental rites and pastoral offices such as weddings and funerals, and on the constant round of prayer. For pedagogical purposes, orders of service are outlined, and contemporary accounts set off from the main text are cited in extract or in full. In their own writing, authors pay close attention to the social incidences of worship, providing thick descriptions of the liturgical life in their periods and areas.
The book combines several grids in its arrangement. The principal sequence is chronological, but this is diversified according to geography and, where necessary, confessional identity. While the majority of chapters treat the material details of worship in their particular time and place, there are also thematic chapters that give a longitudinal reading of such features as music, spatial setting, and the visual arts. These topics are treated at least in an indicative way in the other chapters. Throughout the book care is taken to acknowledge the contributions of women to liturgical practice.
The editors have engaged an international and ecumenical team of writers with expertise in many areas. The contributors range across the confessions (Orthodox, Catholic, the Reformation churches, Mennonite, Baptist, Methodist, and Pentecostal), the continents (Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe), and the languages (the editors have translated chapters from the French, the German, and the Portuguese, and others write from the Netherlands, Sweden, and Korea).
The editors are grateful to the following collaborators at Oxford University Press: Cynthia Read, who first proposed this project; Theo Calderara, who helped manage some of the details early in the project; Timothy J. DeWerff for overall project management; Stephen Wagley and Eric Stannard, who developed the book and oversaw the editing; and Martin A. Levick and Susan Gamer, who tracked down numerous illustrations. The index was compiled by Julia Marshall of Marshall Indexing Services. Among university colleagues, the editors wish to thank Lucas Van Rompay for help in standardizing transliterations from various Middle Eastern languages; Marchita Mauck for advising on artistic matters; Kerry McCarthy for searching out several musical references; and Reed Criswell for invaluable electronic assistance. Particular mention must be made of the library staff at the Boston University School of Theology and at Duke University Divinity School as well as those in the Rare Book and Special Collections at Duke. Cooperation in the search for illustrations was gladly afforded by Joyce Borger, Christian Reformed Church; Joan Cambitsis, Publications Office, World Council of Churches, Geneva; Michael DuBose, United Methodist News Service; Amy Heckert, Brethren Historical Library and Archives; Laurie Oswald, Mennonite Church USA; Ken Shaffer, Brethren Historical Library and Archives; and Mark Shenise, General Commission on Archives and History, United Methodist Church.
The editors express their deep appreciation to the Louisville Institute for providing a General Grant toward the illustration program of the book.
Geoffrey Wainwright Karen B. Westerfield Tucker The Feast of the Transfiguration, AD 2005
Editors and Contributors
The Editors
Karen B. Westerfield Tucker, a United Methodist minister, is Professor of Worship at Boston University. The editor of The Sunday Service of the Methodists (1995) and the author of American Methodist Worship (2001), she is the Chair of the Worship and Liturgy Committee of the World Methodist Council. She is Editor-in-Chief of the international and ecumenical journal Studia Liturgica.
Geoffrey Wainwright, a British Methodist minister who previously taught in Cameroon and England, occupies the Cushman Chair of Theology at Duke University in North Carolina. He is a past president of the international Societas Liturgica and of the American Theological Society. His Doxology (1980), “a systematic theology written in liturgical perspective,” was followed by Worship with One Accord (1997) and For Our Salvation (1997).
The Contributors
John F. Baldovin, S.J., is Professor of Historical and Liturgical Theology at Weston Jesuit School of Theology, Massachusetts. A former President of the North American Academy of Liturgy and of Societas Liturgica, he has served as an adviser to the (U.S.) Bishops’ Committee on the Liturgy, and with the International Commission on English in the Liturgy. Among his numerous publications are The Urban Character of Christian Worship (1987, 2002); Worship: City, Church and Renewal (1991); and Bread of Life, Cup of Salvation: Understanding the Mass (2003).
M. Bradford Bedingfield, a practicing attorney in Boston, Massachusetts, earned the D. Phil. in English Literature from Oxford University and has taught in the United States, England, and Japan. An editor for Old English entries in the third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, he has published on Anglo-Saxon topics, including: The Dramatic Liturgy of Anglo-Saxon England (2002); and “Ritual and Drama” in Ritual and Belief: The Rites of the Anglo-Saxon Church (2005).
Teresa Berger teaches theology at the Divinity School of Duke University, North Carolina. She is a Roman Catholic, originally from Germany, with doctorates both in dogmatic theology and in liturgical studies. Berger is the author and editor of several books, including Liturgie und Frauenseele. Die liturgische Bewegung aus der Sicht der Frauenforschung (1993), Women’s Ways of Worship: Gender Analysis and Liturgical History (1999), Dissident Daughters: Feminist Liturgies in Global Context (2001), and Fragments of Real Presence (2005).
Bruno Birki, a pastor of the Swiss Reformed Church currently serving in Neuchatel, taught for ten years on the interconfessional faculty in Yaoundé (Cameroon) and has held positions in the Catholic Faculty of Theology at Fribourg. Among his books are studies on Christian death (dm Herrn enschlafen, 1969), the liturgies of Protestant churches in Africa (L’assemblée dominicale, 1976), and Reformed eucharistic liturgies in France and Switzerland (Céne du Seigneur, Eucharistie de |’Eglise, 1985). A former President of Societas Liturgica, he is a Council member of the Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches.
Christine Chaillot, an Orthodox laywoman (Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople) from Switzerland, has studied Oriental Orthodox communities throughout the Middle East and elsewhere. She has written numerous articles and books, among them Role des images et vénération des icénes dans les Eglises Orthodoxes Orientales (1993), The Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch and All the East (1998), and The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Tradition (2002).
Anscar J. Chupungco, O.S.B., is Rector-President of San Beda College in the Philippines, having previously been Director of the Paul VI Institute of Liturgy in the Philippines and a professor at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute in Rome. He has written widely on the topic of liturgical inculturation, and has contributed to liturgical renewal especially in the Philippines. He is the editor of the multivolume Handbook for Liturgical Studies.
Conrad L. Donakowski is Professor Emeritus of the Humanities and Music at Michigan State University; Director of Music at St. Thomas Aquinas Church in East Lansing, Michigan; and visiting professor of liturgy and culture in the Liturgical Institute at Mundelein Seminary, Chicago. His publications include the book A Muse for the Masses: Ritual and Music in an Age of Democratic Revolution and articles on religious ritual as mass medium in the Aufkldrung, the civic cult of French revolutionary fétes, and opera as propaganda for the Risorgimento.
Michael S. Driscoll, a Roman Catholic presbyter, teaches on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He wrote Alcuin et la pénitence a l’époque carolingienne (1999) and has published numerous articles in journals such as Worship, Ecclesia Orans, and Traditio. A former President of the North American Academy of Liturgy, he was an advisor to the (U.S.) Bishops’ Committee on the Liturgy. He serves as a member of the executive Council of Societas Liturgica.
Nwaka Chris Egbulem studied African philosophy and theology in Nigeria and the Congo before completing graduate studies at the University of Notre Dame and the Catholic University of America. The author of The Power of Africentric Celebrations (1996), he is a visiting professor in Nigeria and at the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University, New Orleans. He is the founder and CEO of two international nonprofit organizations: the Amen Foundation, Inc., and Action Africa, Inc.
Christopher Ellis is the Principal of Bristol Baptist College in Bristol, England, and the author of Gathering: A Theology and Spirituality of Worship in Free Church Tradition (2004). He moderates the Faith and Unity Executive of the British Baptist Union, is a member of the Worship and Spirituality Commission of the Baptist World Alliance, and is a former member of the Joint Liturgical Group of Great Britain.
William T. Flynn is Lecturer at the University of Leeds, Institute for Medieval Studies. He is the author of Medieval Music as Medieval Exegesis (1999), has published articles and chapters on music and theology, and has received awards and commissions for musical compositions. He participates in the study group Sapientia-Eloquentia based at the University of Stockholm, which is investigating developments in liturgical poetry from the eleventh to the twelfth centuries.
Duncan B. Forrester served early in his career as a Church of Scotland missionary in educational ministry in India, and later as a Lecturer at the University of Sussex in England. In 2001 he retired from his position as Professor of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology at Edinburgh University, where he had also served as Dean of the Faculty of Divinity and the Director of the Centre for Theology and Public Issues. He has published widely, principally in Indian politics and religion and in ethics and political theology.
Robert Gribben is Professor of Worship and Mission in the United Faculty of Theology in Melbourne, Australia, and a minister of the Uniting Church in Australia. He has served on the national liturgical bodies of his church and wrote the authorized commentary on its worship book. He has been Chair of the English Language Liturgical Consultation, has twice been elected President of the Australian Academy of Liturgy, and currently chairs the Ecumenics Committee of the World Methodist Council.
André Haquin, a Belgian priest, is a professor at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve. He devoted a study to a pioneer of the Liturgical Movement, Dom Lambert Beauduin et le renouveau liturgique (1970), and has written on the eucharist in L eucharistie au coeur de |’Eglise et pour lavie du monde (2004).
David R. Holeton is Professor of Liturgy at the Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. Ordained in the Anglican Church of Canada, he taught liturgy in Vancouver and Toronto before assuming his present position in 1997. His main academic interests lie within the areas of Christian initiation, communion of all the baptized and the Bohemian sacramental and liturgical movement.
Maxwell E. Johnson is Professor of Liturgy at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, and a minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He is a coauthor of Zhe Apostolic Tradition: A Commentary (2002) and revised and expanded E. C. Whitaker’s Documents of the Baptismal Liturgy (2003). He is the author of The Rites of Christian Initiation: Their Evolution and Interpretation (1999), The Virgin of Guadalupe: Theological Reflections of an Anglo-Lutheran Liturgist (2002), and Worship: Rites, Feasts, and Reflections (2005).
Seung-Joong Joo, educated in Korea and the United States, is Assistant Professor of Preaching and Worship and Dean of the Graduate School of Ministry at the Presbyterian College and Theological Seminary in Seoul, Korea. His research and pastoral interests include the inculturation and adaptation of historic Christian practices for the Korean context.
Kyeong-Jin Kim is Professor of Worship at the Busan Presbyterian University in Gimhae City, South Korea, and serves as senior pastor of the Gurutugy Presbyterian Church in Seoul. The history and practices of Presbyterian worship in Korea are the principal areas of his scholarly investigation.
Harry Klaassens has served several parishes as a minister of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands and is currently pastor of the Ichthus Church in Emmen. His doctoral work addressed the history and theology of Pentecost and their interpretation for congregational practices. He has published principally in the areas of practical theology and pastoral liturgy.
Jaime Lara is chair of the Program in Religion and the Arts and Associate Professor of Christian Art and Architecture at Yale Divinity School and Yale Institute of Sacred Music. He has been vice president of the National Hispanic Institute for Liturgy (USA) and was editor of the Spanishlanguage lectionary for the United States and of the Spanish translation of Environment and Art in Catholic Worship. He is the author of City, Temple, Stage: Eschatological Architecture and Liturgical Theatrics in New Spain (2004).
Marchita Mauck is Professor of Art History at Louisiana State University and Associate Dean of the College of Art and Design. She is a medievalist by specialization with additional interest in contemporary art and architecture. Her books include Shaping a House for the Church (1990) and Places for Worship (1995). She has served as a liturgical design consultant for renovation and new church projects throughout the United States.
Elsie Anne McKee, Archibald Alexander Professor of Reformation Studies and the History of Worship at Princeton Theological Seminary, has published primarily in the area of sixteenth-century Reformed history and theology. She has written John Calvin on the Diaconate and Liturgical Almsgiving (1984), John Calvin: Writings on Pastoral Piety (2001), and several critical studies of the life and work of Katharina Schitz Zell.
Nathan D. Mitchell is on the faculty of the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, and concurrently the associate director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy. His most recent books include Eucharist as a Sacrament of Initiation (1994), Liturgy and the Social Sciences (1999), and Real Presence: The Work of Eucharist (2001). Since 1991, his column “The Amen Corner” has appeared in each issue of Worship.
Nils-Henrik Nilsson, a pastor in the Church of Sweden, taught at the University of Lund from 1982-1987, and since 1989 has been the Secretary for Liturgy in the Church of Sweden. He is the author of several books including: Gudstjdnst i Svenska kyrkan, 1994 (Worship in the Church of Sweden); Evangelieboken i gudstjanst och forkunnelse, with LarsOlov Eriksson, 2003 (The Lectionary in Worship and Preaching); and Gudstjdnsten och vi sjdlva, 2005 (Worship and We Ourselves).
Joanne M. Pierce is an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts. Her published articles address medieval topics, among them “The Evolution of the ordo missae in the Early Middle Ages” (1997) and “*‘Green Women’ and Blood Pollution: Some Medieval Rituals for the Churching of Women after Childbirth” (1999). She is a coeditor of Source and Summit: Commemorating Josef A. Jungmann, S.J. (1999).
Samson Prabhakar is an ordained minister of the Church of South India and received the Doctor of Theology in Religious Education from the University of Bern, Switzerland. He is presently the Director of Research at the South Asia Theological Research Institute (SATHRI) of The Board of Theological Education of the Senate of Serampore College, Bangalore. He taught in the Department of Christian Ministry at the United Theological College from 1982 to 2001.
John Rempel is a minister in the Mennonite Church USA and Assistant Professor of Historical Theology at the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Indiana. He was a member of the Worship Committee of the Church of the Brethren—Mennonite Church Canada & USA that produced Hymnal: A Worship Book (1992), the author of The Lord’s Supper in Anabaptism (1993), and the editor of the 1998 Mennonite Minister’s Manual. In 1991, he became the first representative of the Mennonite Central Committee at the United Nations, a position he held until 2003.
Alexander Rentel is Assistant Professor of Canon Law and Byzantine Studies at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary in New York. He received his S.E.O.D. from the Pontifical Oriental Institute (Rome), and did his dissertation on the Patriarchal Liturgical Diataxis of Dimitrios Gemistos. He is an ordained Eastern Orthodox priest and serves as Canon Law adviser to the Holy Synod of Bishops of his Church.
Hans-Christoph Schmidt-Lauber, after a pastoral ministry at Kiel in northern Germany, became Professor of Practical Theology at the University of Vienna, Austria. His published works run from Die Eucharistie als Entfaltung der verba testamenti (1957) to the manual Handbuch der Liturgik (3rd ed., 2003). A former President of Societas Liturgica, he played a prominent part in the development toward a new service book for the Lutheran and United Churches in Germany, Evangelisches Gottesdienstbuch (1999).
Bryan D. Spinks is Professor of Liturgical Studies at Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School, and Chair of the Liturgy Program. A priest of the Church of England, he served on the Church of England Liturgical Commission from 1986 until 2000. Among his most recent publications are Mar Nestorius and Mar Theodore the Interpreter: The Forgotten Eucharistic Prayers of East Syria (1999) and Sacraments, Ceremonies, and the Stuart Divines. Sacramental Theology and Liturgy in England and Scotland 1603—1662 (2003).
S. Anita Stauffer, a pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, is the former study secretary for worship of the Lutheran World Federation, Geneva, Switzerland. She has published her archaeological work on early Christian fonts and baptisteries as well as studies on worship and culture, most notably the series produced by the Lutheran World Federation.
Timothy M. Thibodeau is Professor of History at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York, and has also served as adjunct Professor of Church History at the Colgate-Rochester Divinity School. He has published extensively on the history of Christianity and the development of medieval legal studies. He coedited, with Anselme Davril, O.S.B., the modern critical edition of William Durandus of Mende’s Rationale divinorum officiorum, published by Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis.
Lucas Van Rompay, formerly on the faculty of the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, is currently Professor of Eastern Christianity at Duke University, North Carolina. His publications include text editions with annotated translations of Syriac Old Testament commentaries, such as Théodore de Mopsueste: Fragments syriaques du Commentaire des Psaumes (1982), as well as numerous articles on Syriac literature and the cultural history of Eastern Christianity.
Wilhelm Wachholz teaches church history at the Evangelical Lutheran seminary in Sao Leopoldo, Brazil. His dissertation, which studied the “Evangelical Society for Protestant Germans in America,” was published as “Atravessem e Ajudem-nos”; a atuacgao da “Sociedade Evangélica de Barmen” e de seus obreiros e obreiros enviados ao Rio Grande do Sul (1864-1899). His research interests include Reformation history and Protestantism in Latin America.
James F. White taught for twenty years each at Southern Methodist University and the University of Notre Dame, and most recently served as Bard Thompson Professor of Liturgical Studies at Drew University in New Jersey. His widely used Introduction to Christian Worship is in its third edition and has been translated into multiple languages. A prolific author, he wrote on Roman Catholic Worship (1995, 2003), while his books on Protestant liturgies particularly in North America made a specially significant contribution to scholarship. As an ordained United Methodist minister, he helped to guide his denomination’s production of liturgical resources from the 1960s until his death in 2004.
Telford Work is Assistant Professor of Theology at Westmont College, California, and the author of Living and Active: Scripture in the Economy of Salvation (2002). His articles have appeared in Oxford University Press and Eerdmans books, Theology Today, Scottish Journal of Theology, International Journal of Systematic Theology, Pro Ecclesia, St. Vladimir’s Seminary Quarterly, Studies in Interreligious Dialogue, and Re:generation Quarterly.
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