This classic work, previously edited by Ronald Jasper and Geoffrey Cuming, has been a staple source in teaching liturgy to generations of students in colleges, seminaries, and universities. It has now been comprehensively revised for future generations of liturgical scholars.

Updates include:

• New introductions that take into account the substantial changes in recent scholarship
• New groupings of the various prayers into liturgical "families" in order to make their relationships clearer
• Plus, new bibliographies

About the Author
Paul F. Bradshaw is emeritus professor of liturgy at the University of Notre Dame and an Anglican/Episcopal priest. The author or editor of over thirty books and of more than 120 articles and essays, he is also a past president both of the North American Academy of Liturgy and of the international Societas Liturgica. From 1987 to 2005 he was editor-in-chief of the scholarly journal Studia Liturgica. Maxwell E. Johnson is emeritus professor of liturgy at the University of Notre Dame and a retired presbyter in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. His numerous publications are on the origins and development of early Christian liturgy, contemporary rites, and current ecumenical and theological questions in both East and West. He is the author and/or editor of more than twenty books and over one hundred essays and articles. He is also a former president of the North American Academy of Liturgy, a member of the Society of Oriental Liturgy, a member of Societas Liturgica, and a member of the scientific advisory board for the journal Ecclesia Orans.

Reviews
"For decades, Jasper and Cuming's Prayers of the Eucharist has given a wide audience access to the treasures of liturgical tradition. By integrating recently discovered texts, rearranging the material, and thoroughly updating introductions and commentary, Paul Bradshaw and Maxwell Johnson ensure that this standard work remains a reliable guide not only to the sources, but also to current scholarship."Harald Buchinger, University of Regensburg, Germany
"Bradshaw and Johnson have produced an edition of the classic Prayers of the Eucharist: Early and Reformed that every contemporary textual scholar must have. Coming nearly thirty years after the last edition, this new revision reflects the substantial amount of critical work that has been completed since then. The restructuring of the work-placing the prayers in textual `families'-allows the scholar to see more clearly the relationships between and within various eucharistic prayer traditions. In updating this text, Bradshaw and Johnson have drawn not only on their own extensive research in this area but have also mined the depth of other recent scholarship to demonstrate the complexity of current debates (including the work of McGowan, Rouwhorst, Stewart-Sykes, Gelston, Spinks, and Winkler, to name just a few). The revisions in both commentary and text reflect the multiplicity of forms in eucharistic praying in the early church and invite the student of liturgy to enter more deeply into the texts themselves."Rev. R. Gabriel Pivarnik, OP, Department of Theology, Providence College
"Having a handy collection of texts is a boon, especially when that collection is more or less up to date with the status of scholarship. Let us hope that from now on `Jasper and Cuming' will really mean only one thing: `Jasper, Cumming, Bradshaw and Johnson.'"Anaphora
"Students now have in their hands a reliable guide in English to the present state of research on the early and reformed texts of the Eucharist."
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Book Information
ISBN 9780814660232
Author R.C.D. Jasper
Format Paperback
Page Count 384
Imprint Liturgical Press
Publisher Liturgical Press
Weight(grams) 615g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 21mm