Liturgy in the Early Church

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Bibliographies

	Paul F. Bradshaw, A Bibliography of Recent Liturgical Studies. Runcorn: Alcuin, 1989. pp.38.
	Thomas A. Vismans & Lucas Bribkhoff, Critical Bibliography of Liturgical Literature. Raymond W, Fitzpatrick & Clifford Howells, translators. Nijmegen: Bestelcentrale der V.S.K.B. Publ., 1961. pp.79.

Primary Sources

	W.H. Frere, Studies in Early Roman Liturgy, Vols 2-3. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1934, 1935.
	Didache 7; 9-10.
	Hippolytus, Apostolic Tradition 4; 15-21.
	Justin Martyr, 1 Apology 61; 65; 67.
	Tertullian, On Baptism.

Secondary Sources

	A. Baumstark, Comparative Liturgy. London: Mowbray, 1958.
	Paul Bradshaw, ed. The New Westminster Dictionary of Liturgy and Worship. Philadelphia: Westminster, 2003. Hbk. ISBN: 0664226558. pp.493.
	Paul F. Bradshaw, The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship: Sources and Methods for the Study of Early Liturgy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pbk. ISBN: 0195217322. pp.48.
	P. Carrington, The Primitive Christian Catechism. Cambridge, 1940.
	Thomas K. Carroll & Thomas Halton, Liturgical Practice in the Fathers. Wilmington: Glazier, 1991. Pbk. ISBN: 089453324X. pp.320.
	Henry Chadwick, "Justin Martyr's Defence of Christianity," Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 47 (1965): 275-97.
	E.C. Colwell & D.W. Riddle, Prolegomena to the Study of the Lectionary Text of the Gospels. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1933.
	Jean Daniélou, The Liturgy and the Bible. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 1956. Hbk. ISBN: 0268000182.
	L. Deiss, Early Sources of the Liturgy. London: Chapman, 1967.
	Graham Dix, The Shape of the Liturgy. London: Arthur & Charles Black, 1945. Reprint. Continuum International Publishing Group - A & C Black, 2000. Hbk. ISBN: 0826455174.
	Robert F Evans, One and Holy: Church in Latin Patristic Thought. Church Historical Socoety series. London: SPCK, 1972. Hbk. ISBN: 0281027250. pp.192.
	Eugene J. Fisher, ed. The Jewish Roots of Christian Liturgy. Mahweh, NJ: Paulist 1990. Pbk. ISBN: 0809131323. pp.222.
	J.M. Gallagher, Signicando Causant: A Study of Sacramental Efficacy. Fribourg: University Press, 1965.
	F.S.B. Gavin, The Jewish Antecedents of the Christian Sacraments. R A Kessinger Publishing Co., 1988. Pbk. ISBN: 0766104699. pp.132.
	Alexandre Ganocry, An Introduction to Catholic Sacramental Theology. New York: Paulist Press, 1984. Pbk. ISBN: 0809125684. pp.192.
	Ferdinand Hahn, The Worship of the Early Church. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1973. Pbk. ISBN: 0800601270. pp.144.
	Lawrence A. Hoffman, Beyond the Text: A Holistic Approach to Liturgy. Jewish Literature & Culture Series. Bloomington / Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1987. Hbk. ISBN: 0253311993. pp. vii + 213.
	Cheslyn Jones, Geoffrey Wainwright & Edward Yarnold, eds. The Study of Liturgy, 2nd edn. London: SPK, 1992. Pbk. ISBN: 0281045550.
	J.A. Jungmann, The Early Liturgy to the Time of Gregory the Great. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 1959. Hbk. ISBN: 0268000832.
	Aidan Kavanagh, "Liturgical and Credal Studies," Henry W. Bowden, ed. A Century of Church History: The Legacy of Philip Schaff. Carbondale & Edwardsville: South Illinois University Press, 1988. Hbk. ISBN: 0809314398. pp. 216-244.
	E.J. Kilmartin, "Patristic Views of Sacramental Sanctification," C.S. Sullivan, ed. Readings in Sacramental Theology. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1964.
	Edward J. Kilmartin, Christian Liturgy, Vol. 1. Kansas City: Sheed and Ward, 1988. Pbk. 1556120672.
	Theodor Klausner, A Short History of the Western Liturgy, 2nd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979. Pbk. ISBN: 0192132237. pp.240.
	J.A. Lamb, "The Place of the Bible in Liturgy," P.R. Ackroyd & C.F. Evans, eds. The Cambridge History of the Bible, Vol. 1. From Beginnings to Jerome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970. Hbk. ISBN: 0521074185. pp.563-586.
	Eric Palazzo, A History of Liturgical Books from the Origins to the Thirteenth Century. Liturgical Press, 1998. Pbk. ISBN: 081466167X. pp.256.
	E.C. Ratcliff, Liturgical Studies. A.H. Couratin & D.H. Tripp, eds. London: SPCK, 1976. pp. vi + 250.
	A. Schmemann, For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy, 2nd edn. Crestwood: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1989. Pbk. ISBN: 0913836087. pp.151.
	Hans-Joachim Schultz, The Byzantine Liturgy: Symbolic Structure and Faith Expression. New York: Pueblo, 1986. Pbk. ISBN: 0916134725. pp.284.
	O. Semmelroth, Church and Sacrament. Notre Dame: Fides, 1965.
	J.S. Srawley, The Early History of the Liturgy, 2nd edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1947.
	Robert Taft, The Liturgy of the Hours in East and West: The Origins of the Divine Office and its Meaning for Today. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1986. Pbk. ISBN: 0814614051. pp. xvii + 421.
	Carl A. Volz, Faith and Practice in the Early Church: Foundations for Contemporary Theology. Miineapolis: Augsburg, 1983. Pbk. ISBN: 0806619619. pp.223.
	A. Vööbus, "Regarding the Background of the Liturgical Traditions in the Didache. The Question of Literary Relation Between Did IX.4 and the Fourth Gospel," Vigiliae Christianae 23 (1969): 81-87.
	T. Warden, ed., Sacraments in Scripture: A Symposium. London: Chapman, 1966.
	Fredrick E. Warren, The Liturgy of the Ante-Nicene Church. London: 1897. Reprint: AMS Press, 1940. Hbk. ISBN: 0404068472.
	Louis Weil, Sacraments and Liturgy: The Outward Signs: A Study of Liturgical Mentality. Oxford: Blackwell, 1984. Hbk. ISBN: 0631131922.
	Herman A.J. Wegman, Christian Worship in East and West. New York: Pueblo, 1990. Pbk. ISBN: 0916134717. pp.390.
	William C. Weinrich, "Cyprian, Donatism, Augustine, and Augustana VIII: Remarks on the Church and the Validity of Sacraments," Concordia Theological Quarterly 55.4 (1991): 267-296.
	Geoffrey Grimshaw Willis, A History of Early Roman Liturgy to the Death of Pope Gregory the Great. Subsidia, No 1. Boydell & Brewer, 1994. Hbk. ISBN: 1870252063. pp.168.