Byzantine Liturgical Reform: A Study of Liturgical Change in the Byzantine Tradition

Students of liturgy will find clear and useful presentations of several key periods in Byzantine liturgical development. Of even greater significance is the discussion on the very nature of liturgical reform. The guidelines Pott develops to categorize and evaluate various types of reform are particularly useful and can be applied equally to reforms in all Christian traditions, eastern and western.

Thomas Pott, a monk of the Monastery of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Chevetogne (Belgium), is Professor of Liturgical Theology at Sant' Anselmo University and at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome.