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RITES OF ORDINATION
Paul F. Bradshaw
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Paperback. Considers the typological background to ordained ministry some have drawn from the Old Testament and what ministry meant to the earliest Christian communities. Explores the ordination rites and theology of the early church, the Christian East, the medieval West, the churches of the Reformation, and the post-Tridentine Roman Catholic Church. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: HRCM; HRCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 354.
Paul Bradshaw, one of the world's foremost scholars on the history of Christian liturgy, has shared this expertise in several works that have become standard texts for students of liturgy. In Rites of Ordination, Bradshaw turns his attention to the ways that Christians through the ages have understood what it means to ordain someone as a minister and how that has been expressed in liturgical practice. Bradshaw considers the typological background to ordained ministry some have drawn from the Old Testament and what ministry meant to the earliest Christian communities. He explores the ordination rites and theology of the early ... Read more
Paul Bradshaw, one of the world's foremost scholars on the history of Christian liturgy, has shared this expertise in several works that have become standard texts for students of liturgy. In Rites of Ordination, Bradshaw turns his attention to the ways that Christians through the ages have understood what it means to ordain someone as a minister and how that has been expressed in liturgical practice. Bradshaw considers the typological background to ordained ministry some have drawn from the Old Testament and what ministry meant to the earliest Christian communities. He explores the ordination rites and theology of the early ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
SPCK
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780281071579
SKU
V9780281071579
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99-50
About Paul F. Bradshaw
Paul F. Bradshaw is Emeritus Professor of Liturgy at the University of Notre Dame, and a priest-vicar of Westminster Abbey. He has written or edited more than twenty books on the subject of Christian worship. These include The Search for the Origins of Christian Liturgy (SPCK, 2002), which has become a standard textbook, Eucharistic Origins (SPCK, 2004) and Reconstructing Early ... Read more
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