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An Vital Study at the Worship of the Early Church
This introduction to the origins of Christian worship illuminates the significance of ancient liturgical patterns for recent Christian practice. Andrew McGowan takes a fresh option to working out how Christians came to worship within the distinctive forms still familiar nowadays. Deftly and expertly processing the bewildering complexity of the traditional 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–of their earliest recoverable settings. Now in paper.