The book should be seen in the context of Paul Bradshaw's earlier works: The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship and Eucharistic Origins. In this book he updates his thinking in this area, focussing on the origins of the Eucharist, Baptism and Daily Prayer. The controversial introductory chapter is entitled: Did Jesus Institute the Eucharist at the Last Supper?

Paul Bradshaw

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Introduction

Part 1 EUCHARIST

1. Did Jesus institute the eucharist at the Last Supper?

2. Receiving communion

3. The earliest eucharistic prayers?

Part 2 BAPTISM

4. Catechumens and the gospel

5. The profession of faith

6. Varieties of anointing

Part 3 PRAYER

7. Patterns of daily praying

8. The changing role of psalmody

9. The emergence of penitential prayer

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Bradshaw, Paul

The book should be seen in the context of Paul Bradshaw's earlier works: The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship and Eucharistic Origins. In this book he updates his thinking in this area.

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In this book Professor Bradshaw presents us with a veritable tour de force of academic theology which I am sure will become indispensable to those aspiring to be specialists in liturgical history. It covers exhaustively the practice and development of the Eucharist, Baptism and Prayer in the early centuries of the Church. It is not, however, a book for the general reader who does not share the aspiration to become a liturgical scholar. Those who simply desire to grow in their experience and understanding of the Christian sacraments could always read prayerfully the writings of the Fathers that Professor Bradshaw anatomizes with such gusto.

Reconstructing Early Christian Worship

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