Liturgical worship resources

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Adam, Adolf

• The Eucharistic Celebration: The Source and Summit of Faith
• Foundations of Liturgy: An Introduction to Its History and Practice
• The Liturgical Year: Its History and Its Meaning After the Reform of the Liturgy

Andreopoulos, Andreas

• The Sign of the Cross: The Gesture, the Mystery, the History

Aquilina, Mike

• The Mass of the Early Christians
• The Mass: The Glory, the Mystery, the Tradition with Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl
• Understanding the Mass: 100 Questions, 100 Answers

Ayo, Nicholas

• Gloria Patri: The History and Theology of the Lesser Doxology

Boff, Leonardo

• Lord’s Prayer: The Prayer of Integral Liberation
• Praying with Jesus and Mary: Our Father, Hail Mary

Bouyer, Louis

• Eucharist: Theology and Spirituality of the Eucharistic Prayer
• Life and Liturgy
• Liturgical Piety
• Liturgy and Architecture
• The Liturgy Revived: A Doctrinal Commentary of the Conciliar Constitution on the Liturgy
• The Meaning of Sacred Scripture
• Rite and Man: Natural Sacredness and Christian Liturgy with MJ Costello
• The Word, Church, and Sacraments: In Protestantism and Catholicism

Bradshaw, Paul F.

• Anglican Ordinal: Its History and Development from the Reformation to the Present Day
• The Changing Face of Jewish and Christian Worship in North America (Two Liturgical Traditions) with Lawrence A. Hoffman
• Companion to the Alternative Service Book
• Companion to Common Worship
• Daily Prayer in the Early Church: A Study of the Origin and Early Development of the Divine Office
• Early Christian Worship: A Basic Introduction to Ideas and Practice
• Essays in Early Eastern Initiation
• Essays on Early Eastern Eucharistic Prayers – editor
• Eucharistic Origins
• Life Cycles in Jewish and Christian Worship (Two Liturgical Traditions) with Lawrence A. Hoffman
• Liturgica Presidency in the Early Church (Liturgical Studies)
• The Making of Jewish and Christian Worship (Two Liturgical Traditions) with Lawrence A. Hoffman
• Ordination Rites of the Ancient Churches of East and West
• The Origins of Feasts, Fasts and Seasons with Maxwell Johnson
• Passover Easter: Origin & History to Modern Times (Two Liturgical Traditions) with Lawrence A. Hoffman
• Reconstructing Early Christian Worship
• The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship: Sources and Methods for the Study of Early Liturgy

Breck, John

• Longing for God: Orthodox Reflections on Bible, Ethics, and Liturgy
• The Power of the Word in the Worshiping Church
• Serve the Lord With Gladness: Basic Reflections on the Eucharist and the Priesthood : Our Life in the Liturgy, Be My Priest with A Monk of the Eastern Church

Brooks-Leonard, John

• The Postures of the Assembly During the Eucharistic Prayer with Nathan D. Mitchell and John K. Leonard

Danielou, Jean

• Bible and the Liturgy

Deiss, Lucien

• Early Sources of the Liturgy
• God’s Word and God’s People
• It’s the Lord’s Supper: The Eucharist of Christians with Edmond Bonin
• The Mass
• Springtime of the Liturgy: Liturgical Texts of the First Four Centuries
• Visions of Liturgy and Music for a New Century

Dix, Gregory

• Shape of Liturgy | new edition of this classic updated by Simon Jones
• The Sacramental Life: Gregory Dix and his Writings by Simon Jones

Elbogen, Ismar

• Jewish Liturgy A Comprehensive History with Raymond P Scheindlin

Hahn, Scott

• The Lamb’s Supper
• Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: Unlocking the Secrets of the Last Supper with Brant Pitre

Hodge, Charles

• Systematic Theology

Irwin, Kevin W.

• Context & Text: Method in Liturgical Theology
• Liturgical Theology: A Primer
• Liturgy, Prayer and Spirituality
• Models of the Eucharist
• Responses to 101 Questions on the Mass
• Sunday Worship

Johnson, Maxwell E.

• Between Memory and Hope: Readings on the Liturgical Year
• Images of Baptism (Forum Essays, No. 6)
• Issues in Eucharistic Praying in East and West: Essays in Liturgical and Theological Analysis
• Living Water, Sealing Spirit: Readings on Christian Initiation
• The prayers of Sarapion of Thmuis: A literary, liturgical, and theological analysis (Orientalia Christiana analecta)
• The Rites of Christian Initiation: Their Evolution and Interpretation

Jungmann, Joseph A.

• Christian Prayer Through the Centuries with Christopher Irvine and John Coyne
• The Early Liturgy to the Time of Gregory the Great
• Liturgical Worship
• The Mass: an Historical, Theological, and Pastoral Survey
• The Mass of the Roman Rite
• The Place of Christ in Liturgical Prayer
• The Sacrifice of the Mass

Kadavil, Mathai

• The World as Sacrament: Sacramentality of Creation from the Perspectives of Leonardo Boff, Alexander Schmemann and Saint Ephrem (Textes et Etudes Liturgiques)

Kavanagh, Aidan

• Confirmation: Origins and Reform
• Elements of Rite: A Handbook of Liturgical Style
• Living Water, Sealing Spirit: Readings on Christian Initiation
• On Liturgical Theology
• The Shape of Baptism: The Rite of Christian Initiation

Koenig, John

• Feast of the World’s Redemption: Eucharistic Origins and Christian Mission
• Soul Banquets: How Meals Become Mission in the Local Congregation

Lathrop, Gordon

• Central Things: Worship Matters
• Christian Assembly
• Holy Ground: A Liturgical Cosmology
• Holy People: A Liturgical Ecclesiology
• Holy Things: A Liturgical Theology
• What Are the Essentials of Christian Worship?

Ramshaw, Gail

• Between Sundays: Daily Bible Readings Based on the Revised Common Lectionary
• Christ in Sacred Speech: The Meaning of Liturgical Language
• Christian Worship: 100,000 Sundays of Symbols and Rituals
• Forty Days and Forty Nights
• Keeping Time: The Church’s Years with Mons Teig
• Liturgical Language (American Essays in Liturgy)
• Reviving Sacred Speech: The Meaning of Liturgical Language
• Richer Fare for the Christian People: Reflections on the Sunday Readings
• A Three-Year Banquet: The Lectionary for the Assembly
• Treasures Old and New
• Words Around the Font
• Words Around the Table
• Worship: Searching for Language

Rosenberg, Arnold

• Jewish Liturgy as a Spiritual System: A Prayer-by-Prayer Explanation of the Nature and Meaning of Jewish Worship

Schmemann, Alexander

• Introduction to Liturgical Theology
• Liturgy and Life: Lectures and Essays on Christian Development through Liturgical Experience
• Of Water and the Spirit: A Liturgical Study of Baptism
• Time and Community: Studies in Liturgical History and Theology

Wainwright, Geoffrey

• Doxology: The Praise of God in Worship, Doctrine and Life
• Eucharist and Eschatology
• Worship with One Accord: Where Liturgy and Eucemism Embrace

Westermeyer, Paul

• Church Musician
• Let Justice Sing
• Te Deum the Church and Music
• With Tongues of Fire: Profiles in 20th-Century Hymn Writing