Changing Face of Jewish and Christian Worship in North America (Two Liturgical Traditions, 2) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0268007845 ISBN 13: 9780268007843

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press, 1991

Synopsis

Volume 1 of "Two Liturgical Traditions", surveyed the origins and growth of Christian and Jewish liturgy from the first century of the common era until our time. This second volume "The Changing Face of Jewish and Christian Worship in North America", follows up with an examination of the recent revolution in Jewish and Christian liturgies. The book reflects the particular role of North America in the worldwide experiment in liturgical renewal. The introductory essay asks what a liturgical tradition is. Part 1 (Liturgical Traditions and Theologies of "The Other") is a self-conscious reflection on how Jewish and Christian attitudes toward each other have been expressed in the forms of each tradition's worship. All six of the authors in Part 2 (American Reform or Second Reformation?) have been intimately involved with current liturgical editing and write first-hand accounts of what they think they and their colleagues have accomplished in the new Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish liturgical books. Part 3 (Critiquing Liturgical Reforms) addresses the questions of theology, feminist theory, and poetics against which the liturgical works themselves must be judged. The conclusion of this volume considers where our traditions are heading. A reconsideration of liturgical traditions in general against the backdrop of case studies and critiques, this book re-evaluates the challenges posed to Jews and Christians alike as they aspire to reshape, yet retain, the liturgical traditions they have inherited.

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About the Author

Paul F. Bradshaw is emeritus professor of liturgy at the University of Notre Dame, an honorary canon of the Diocese of Northern Indiana (Episcopal Church), and a priest-vicar of Westminster Abbey. He has written, cowritten, or edited more than twenty books on the subject of Christian worship, including Reconstructing Early Christian Worship; The Origins of Feasts, Fasts, and Seasons in Early Christianity; and The Eucharistic Liturgies (all from Liturgical Press). A former president of both the North American Academy of Liturgy and the international Societas Liturgica, he was also editor-in-chief of the journal Studia Liturgica from 1987 to 2005.

From Library Journal

This is the second volume of the series "Two Liturgical Traditions" (Volume 1 is The Making of Jewish and Christian Worship , Univ. of Notre Dame Pr., 1990). Essays in this collection consider past and present perceptions of "the other" in Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Episcopal, United Methodist, Conservative Jewish, and Reform Jewish liturgies. Contributors also critique new liturgies from theological, poetic, and feminist perspectives. Essential for seminary libraries and appropriate for large public and academic libraries.
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About this edition

• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0268007845
• ISBN 13: 9780268007843
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 284
• Editor: Bradshaw Paul F., Hoffman Lawrence A.