The Language of Liturgy: A Ritual Poetics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780334055716)

How language works in the worship of the church has been vigorously debated during the period of liturgical revision in the twentieth century coming at the end of what is known as the Liturgical Movement. Focussing upon the Church of England and the Anglican tradition, this book traces the history of 'liturgical language' as it begins in the Early Church, but with particular emphasis upon the English Reformation liturgies, their background in the Medieval Church and literature and their long and varied life in the Church of England after 1662. Inter-disciplinary in scope, yet rooted in a literary approach, the volume provides a rigorous study of the effect of liturgy upon the theological and devotional life of the Church.

Author: David Jasper
ISBN-10: 0334055717
ISBN-13: 9780334055716
Publisher: SCM Press
Language: English
Published: 01/31/2018
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.55d