Divine Liturgies - Human Problems in Byzantium, Armenia, Syria and PalestineVariorum
Robert F. Taft
ISBN: 0860788679
price: $105.95 hardcover
In obedience to Jesus' command, 'Do this in remembrance of
me', the ritual repetition of the Lord's Supper down through the
ages and across multiple Christian cultures in the liturgies of
East and West, has given rise, inevitably, to innumerable
diversities of shape, text, cultural context, and theological
interpretation, as well as to debates, sometimes heated, among
modern experts as to the methodologies for resolving the problems
arising from these differences. The problems of cultural history,
structural, historical, and textual reconstruction, theological
interpretation, and method involved in the modern scholarly
debate on these issues, are the object of the studies in this
volume, dedicated to the liturgies of Byzantium, Armenia, Syria,
and Palestine.
Contents: Preface; Problems in the History of Culture and
Historical Reconstruction: Women at church in Byzantium: where,
when - and why; Byzantine liturgical evidence in the Life of St.
Marcian the Œconomos: concelebration and the preanaphoral
rites; The Armenian "Holy Sacrifice (Surb Patarag)" as
a mirror of Armenian liturgical history; Problems of Anaphoral
Structure and Interpretation: Some structural problems in the
Syriac Anaphora of the Twelve Apostles I; Understanding the
Byzantine anaphoral oblation; Ecumenical scholarship and the
Catholic-Orthodox epiclesis dispute; Problems of Method:
Quaestiones disputatae: the skeuophylakion of Hagia Sophia and
the entrances of the liturgy revisited (parts I-II); The
bematikion in the 6/7th-c. Narration of the Abbots John and
Sophronius (BHGNA 1438w): an exercise in comparative liturgy;
Comparative liturgy fifty years after Anton Baumstark (d. 1948):
a reply to recent critics; Additional notes and comments;
Indexes.
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