Introduction 1. The History of Liturgical Reform 2. The Liturgical Movement 3. Liturgy and Revelation 4. Liturgy as Performance 5. Liturgy as an Understanding of Time Conclusion
A probing study on the history and meaning of the liturgy that also questions how Christian worship will change in the future.
Laurence Paul Hemming is Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Lancaster University, UK.
This is a book that must be read and studied and read again. It
will challenge and it will inform...this is a book the claims of
which must be taken very seriously
*Mass of Ages*
An intriguing account of the doctrine of transubstantiation ...
Hemming's book is provocative [...] and that is to its benefit. It
gets at the root issues of liturgical reform ... It repays several
times over having read it and contemplated it.
*Antiphon*
[An] important and cogently argued book.
*Church Times*
A very readable book with a clear, single idea behind it...Worship
as Revelation is thought-provoking and worth reading, the work of a
first-class theological mind.
*Scottish Journal of Theology*
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