Bryan Spinks is one of the world's leading scholars in the field of liturgy and to have a comprehensive work by him on the Eucharist is a major catch for SCM. Like the author's previous work on Baptism, this will become a standard work about the Eucharist and Eucharistic theology worldwide. The book, a study of the history and theology of the Eucharist, is the fifth volume in the SCM Studies in Worship and Liturgy series and will help to establish the series as a place for landmark books of liturgical scholarship.

Bryan D. Spinks

Do This in Remembrance of Me

Foreword

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction In Search of the Meals behind the Last Supper: Cultural Background and Eucharistic Origins

The wider cultural setting: the Greco-Roman Symposium

Jewish antecedents

The meals of Jesus and his Last Supper

The Lord's Last Supper narratives

A first-century 'eucharistic' rite: Didache 9—10

Some observations

1 Some Early Eucharistic Practices and Beliefs from Ignatius to Origen

Justin Martyr (c. 100–c. 165): a community in Rome

Further Roman and Western evidence

Syria and Asia Minor

North Africa: Tertullian and Cyprian

Egypt

Concluding remarks

2 The Shaping of Early Eucharistic Prayers: ‘Paleoanaphoras’

Pre-Nicene paleoanaphoras

The Anaphora of Addai and Mari

Strasbourg Gr.254

Apostolic Constitutions VII.25 and 26

The so-called Apostolic Tradition

Concluding remarks: a Jewish urtext or progenitor?

3 Eucharistic Theologies in the Fourth- and Fifth-Century Homilies and the Emergence of the Classical Anaphora

The Mystagogic Catecheses (MC) attributed to Cyril of Jerusalem

Theodore of Mopsuestia (c. 350–428)

The Syrian tradition and Ephrem (c. 306–73)

John Chrysostom

Ambrose of Milan (339–397)

Augustine of Hippo (354–430)

The classical anaphora of Apostolic Constitutions VIII and the anaphoral families

4 The Egyptian Anaphoral Traditions and the Divine Liturgy of the Coptic Orthodox Church

Sarapion, Barcelona and St Thomas

The Coptic Divine Liturgy

Greek Mark

Coptic Cyril

The Egptian Anaphoras of St Basil, St Mark/Cyril and St Gregory

5 The Eucharist and Anaphoras of the Byzantine Synthesis

The Byzantine anaphoras

Concluding observations and remarks

6 The Syriac Liturgical Traditions

The Church of the East or East Syrian Holy Qurbana

The East Syrian anaphoras

The West Syrian (Syrian Orthodox) Holy Qurbono (Qurobo)

The West Syrian anaphoras

The Maronite rite

Sharar

7 The Ethio-Eritrean (‘Ge’ez’) and Armenian Traditions

The Orthodox Täwahdo ('united') Churches of Ethiopia and Eritrea

The Ethiopian anaphoras

The Armenian Apostolic rite

Concluding summary

8 The Classical Western Rites

The Hispano-Mozarabic rite

The Gallican rite

The Roman rite

The Ambrosian or Milanese rite

Celtic rite or tradition?

9 From the Romano-Western Synthesis to the Tridentine Reforms: Liturgy, Commentaries and Eucharistic Theologies

The Romano-Western synthesis

Carolingian commentaries on the Mass and theological debate

Further commentary and doctrinal dispute

The thirteenth-century consolidation

Dissident theologies and liturgies: Wyclif, Hus and the Utraquists

The Teaching of Gabriel Biel (d. 1495) and of the Council of Trent

10 Luther and Lutheran Eucharistic Liturgies

Martin Luther's theology and eucharistic rites

Other Lutherans and Lutheran liturgies

Some later theological and liturgical issues

Scandinavia: some Danish and Swedish variations

11 The Reformed Tradition: From Ulrich Zwingli to Eugène Bersier1

Zurich: Zwingli and Bullinger

Strasbourg: Diobald Schwartz and Martin Bucer

Basel, Berne and Neuchâtel and the Liturgies of Oecolampadius and Farel

Calvin in Strasbourg and Geneva

John Knox, Geneva and Scotland

Zacharius Ursinus, the Heidelberg Catechism and the German ­Palatinate liturgy of 1563

Jan Laski and Petrus Datheen: the Polish and Dutch rites

Reformed orthodoxy and the Lord's Supper

Symptoms of the eighteenth-century 'Enlightenment'

Some nineteenth-century fruits of liberalism and Romanticism

12 The Anglican Tradition: From Thomas Cranmer to the Tractarian Disputes

The 1552 communion rite

1559–1637

Jeremy Taylor, Richard Baxter and the 1662 Prayer Book: eucharistic theologies and liturgies

From the Liturgy of Comprehension, 1689, to the Deposited Book of 1928

13 The Radical Reformation and Some New Churches of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Thomas Müntzer and the Anabaptists

Bryan Spinks is one of the world’s leading scholars in the field of liturgy and to have a comprehensive work by him on the Eucharist is a major catch for SCM. Like the author’s previous work on Baptism, this will become a standard work about the Eucharist and Eucharistic theology worldwide. The book, a study of the history and theology of the Eucharist, is the fifth volume in the SCM Studies in Worship and Liturgy series and will help to establish the series as a place for landmark books of liturgical scholarship.

A comprehensive study on the history and theology of the Eucharist. Aimed at undergraduate and graduate theology students, clergy and theologically literate laity.

Bryan Spinks is one of the world's leading scholars in the field of liturgy and to have a comprehensive work by him on the Eucharist is a major catch for SCM. Like the author's previous work on Baptism, this will become a standard work about the Eucharist and Eucharistic theology worldwide. The book, a study of the history and theology of the Eucharist, is the fifth volume in the SCM Studies in Worship and Liturgy series and will help to establish the series as a place for landmark books of liturgical scholarship. This book will be aimed at undergraduate and graduate theology students, clergy and theologically literate laity. It will assume some technical knowledge (i. e. it is not an introduction to liturgy or introduction to sacraments), but will attempt to outline what the evidence is, and what current scholars think. On occasions it will advance or argue for why one interpretation is preferable to another.

"Bryan Spinks's book is an outstanding new manual on the historical development of the Eucharist. It is excellent not only because it connects liturgical texts and rituals with Eucharistic theologies, but also because of its wide range, varying from the New Testament data to current practice in East and West; from the early Anaphoras to present-day Dutch Table Prayers and internet liturgies; and from the ancient Ethio-Eritrean tradition to contemporaneous Pentecostalism. Bryan Spinks displays great scholarship, investigating the primary sources in many regions, languages, and eras. This will be a 'classic', a standard work on Eucharistic liturgies and theologies for many years to come." -- Prof. Dr. Basilius J. Groen

Bryan D. Spinks is Bishop F. Percy Goddard Professor of Liturgical Studies and Pastoral Theology at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School, and a priest of the Church of England. From 1986 to 2000 he served as a member of and consultant to the Church of England Liturgical Commission, helping to prepare Common Worship.

• Fills a gap in the market, other books on the Eucharist only cover particular aspects. • The most comprehensive study of the history and theology from its origin to the present day. • Bryan Spinks is one of the world's leading liturgical scholars and well networked in the relevant organizations such as Societas Liturgica and SLS. • The Eucharist as a central part of Christian worship in all mainstream traditions. All students of liturgy and anyone in or preparing for ordained ministry has to study the history and theology of the Eucharist.

"Bryan Spinks's book is an outstanding new manual on the historical development of the Eucharist. It is excellent not only because it connects liturgical texts and rituals with Eucharistic theologies, but also because of its wide range, varying from the New Testament data to current practice in East and West; from the early Anaphoras to present-day Dutch Table Prayers and internet liturgies; and from the ancient Ethio-Eritrean tradition to contemporaneous Pentecostalism. Bryan Spinks displays great scholarship, investigating the primary sources in many regions, languages, and eras. This will be a 'classic', a standard work on Eucharistic liturgies and theologies for many years to come."

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