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Pages: 358 p.Language(s):English. Publication Year:2026. ISBN: 978-2-503-61837-1. Brepols. Paperback --
Summary
This volume presents the first sustained study of the dynamic interplay between ritual and narrative in the Armenian Eucharistic tradition. Using the Armenian rite as a test case, it reveals how Eucharistic liturgy served as a site where theology, history, and intercultural exchange converged. By tracing its development across centuries of contact, with Greek, Latin, and regional influences, the book demonstrates how the rite was continually reshaped while preserving its distinct ecclesial identity.
Combining ritual and narrative analysis, the study introduces a new methodological lens for understanding Eucharistic liturgy within Eastern Christianity. Grounded in close analysis of Armenian sources, the book opens a broader conversation about how liturgy discloses meaning, makes history present, and narrates tradition. It offers both a focused contribution to liturgical studies and a valuable resource for scholars of Eastern Christianity and comparative Eucharistic theology. More broadly, it provides a fresh perspective on the relationship between religious tradition, ritual, and narrative.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Note on Transliterations and Biblical References
Chapter 1. The Armenian Eucharistic Rite in Context. Tradition, Sources, and Questions
Part I. How Ritual and Story Interact
Introduction
Chapter 2. The Ritual and Story Disconnected. The Boundaries of the Scholastic Paradigm
Chapter 3. Re-Connecting the Ritual and Story. A Ressourcement Perspective on Sacramentality
Part II. How the Story Unfolds in the Ritual
Introduction
Chapter 4. Body in the Liturgy. Text, Performance, and Symbolism
Chapter 5. From Jerusalem, with Love. The Armenian Synaxis and the Shaping of the Word
Chapter 6. From Constantinople, with Labouring Unity. An Entangled Narrative Component
Chapter 7. From Rome, with Affection. A Ritual Episode that Becomes a Narrative Motif
Part III. How the Story has been Enacted
Introduction
Chapter 8. Words Before the Altar. The Narrative Script of the Anaphora
Chapter 9. Bread Without Leaven, Wine Without Fault. Doctrinal Controversies and Liturgical Practice
Chapter 10. Receiving the Gifts. Ritual Texts, Clerical Agency, and the Language of the Communion Rites
Coda: History, Ritual, and Narrative. Towards a Liturgical Hermeneutics
Appendices
Appendix A. Liturgical Reading Sequence
Appendix B. The Armenian Eucharistic Creed in Comparison with the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed and Epiphanius of Salamis? Creeds
Appendix C. The Anaphora of St Athanasius
Bibliography
Indices
Index of Biblical References
Index of Ancient Authors and Sources.
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