Bryan D. Spinks is Professor of Liturgical Studies and Pastoral Theology, Yale Divinity School. He is a former consultant to the Church of England Liturgical Commission, president emeritus of the Church Service Society of the Church of Scotland, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of Churchill College, Cambridge.
Preface
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Introduction: the enigma of the sanctus
Part I: 1. The Old Testament background and setting
2. The worship of heaven and the qedussah in Judaism
3. Continuity and influence in early Christian documents
Part II: 4. The sanctus in the East Syrian and Syro-Byzantine eucharistic prayers
5. The sanctus in the Egyptian and western eucharistic prayers
6. The possible origins of the sanctus in the eucharistic prayer
Appendix: the literary forms of the sanctus
Part III: 7. Developments in east and west to the reformation
8. The reformation rites
9. Protestant and Anglican liturgies 1662-1960
10. The sanctus in some contemporary eucharistic prayers
11. The sanctus in perspective
Bibliography
Index.
