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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

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

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

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

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

Hahn, Scott

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

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

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

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

Westermeyer, Paul

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


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