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 professor of liturgy at the University
of Notre Dame and a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
America. The author or editor of twenty-five books and of more than
ninety articles and essays, he is also a past president of the
North American Academy of Liturgy, serves as an editorial
consultant for Worship, and is a member of the Scientific Advisory
Board for Ecclesia Orans.
The chapters are short, written in a clear style and easy to read.
It could be easily used in small groups or as a text for adult
religious education on the development of the liturgical
year.Father Mark G. Boyer, The Priest
This book is filled with excellent leads on the finest contemporary
liturgical scholarship. It will serve as an invaluable companion to
anyone studying the origins of the church’s liturgical feasts and
seasons.John F. Baldovin, SJ, Doxology: A Journal of Worship
Their historical study of Sunday worship, Holy Week, Easter,
Christmas, Epiphany, and feasts of saints and martyrs is
interesting and based on sound research.CHOICE
This book is indeed something to be celebrated. Not only do we have
a shining example of liturgical research from two scholars at the
height of their interpretive power, but we also have here a window
onto the way scholarship at this level works; innovative yet
respectful of the tradition; attentive to both detail and to the
larger picture.Susan White Norwich, Vermont
This is a really good book: well written and documents, compact and
yet scholarly, and of considerable interest. Readers of Bradshaw
and Max well can be in little doubt that if we are interested in
how things come to be, there is no substitute for a detective-story
approach to the quest for the origins.Church Times
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