Ancient Christian Worship: Early Church Practices in Social, Historical, and Theological Perspective

Andrew B. McGowan
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  • ISBN: 0801097878, 9780801097874
  • Page count: 320
  • Published: 2016
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Baker Academic

An Important Study on the Worship of the Early Church - Now available in paperback

This introduction to the origins of Christian worship illuminates the importance of ancient liturgical patterns for contemporary Christian practice. Andrew McGowan takes a fresh approach to understanding how Christians came to worship in the distinctive forms still familiar today. Deftly and expertly processing the bewildering complexity of the ancient sources into lucid, fluent exposition, he sets aside common misperceptions to explore the roots of Christian ritual practices--including the Eucharist, baptism, communal prayer, preaching, Scripture reading, and music--in their earliest recoverable settings.

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About the Author

Andrew B. McGowan

Andrew B. McGowan (PhD, University of Notre Dame), an Anglican priest, is president and dean of the Berkeley Divinity School and J. L. Caldwell McFaddin and Rosine B. McFaddin Professor of Anglican Studies and Pastoral Theology at Yale Divinity School in New Haven, Connecticut.