The Making of Jewish and Christian Worship

by Paul F. Bradshaw (Editor), Lawrence A. Hoffman (Editor)

Overview

This volume inaugurates a series celebrating the liturgical and ecumenical breakthrough that has marked the past several decades. Both Jews and Christians have come to new, even revolutionary, views of worship, not only how it began but also what it is today. The first volume describes how the liturgies of synagogue and church were born and how they evolved through the ages. This dual focus on both past and present, by no means accidental, shows clearly that from a liturgical point of view there is no such thing as purely academic scholarship. In an age that values tradition even as it criticizes it, the reconstruction of yesterday's liturgical practice has an impact upon today's spirituality.

The idea for Bradshaw's and Hoffman's three-volume series came from what may have been the first-joint Jewish and Christian conference on liturgy, held at the University of Notre Dame in June, 1988. The first two volumes of this series contain some of the papers delivered at the conference itself, and other contributions that were specially written to complement them.

Contributors: Paul F. Bradshaw, Lawrence A. Hoffman, Tzvee Zahavy, Marilyn J. S. Chiat and Marchita B. Mauck, Stefan C. Reif, Eric L. Friedland, John F. Baldovin, S.J., and Susan J. White.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780268012083
Publisher:	University of Notre Dame Press
Publication date:	03/15/1991
Series:	Two Liturgical Traditions , #1
Edition description:	1
Pages:	222
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.51(d)

About the Author

Paul F. Bradshaw is an emeritus professor of liturgy at the University of Notre Dame.

Lawrence A. Hoffman is Barbara and Stephen Friedman Professor of Liturgy, Worship, and Ritual and director of the Synagogue 2000 Initiative for synagogue spirituality, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York.

Editorial Reviews

As an indication of current developments in the study of past worship in Jewish and in christian communities this collection is worthwhile.” —Theology

“The essays in this book form a lovely reintroduction to the scholarly study of prayer.” —Conservative Judaism

“There is something here for everyone. For the seasoned scholar, a challenge to review his or her methodology. For the scholar steeped in one tradition and not the other, a closer look at two traditions side by side. For the generalist, a concise summary of the state of the question and a good look at the conclusions of the latest scholarship. For the novice, a readable introduction to the best of Jewish and Christian liturgical scholarship.” —Worship

From the Publisher

There is something here for everyone. For the seasoned scholar, a challenge to review his or her methodology. For the scholar steeped in one tradition and not the other, a closer look at two traditions side by side. For the generalist, a concise summary of the state of the question and a good look at the conclusions of the latest scholarship. For the novice, a readable introduction to the best of Jewish and Christian liturgical scholarship.

Worship