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Excerpt (57-B), Epigraph in the Ambrosian Baptistery: from On Baptismal Fonts: Ancient and Modern, by S.A. Stauffer, Alcuin/GROW Liturgical Study 29–30 (Bramcote, Nottingham: Grove Books), p. 24. Copyright © 1994. Reprinted with permission of the publisher (www.grovebooks.co.uk).

Excerpt (64-A), Epitaph at Salona: from The Church at Prayer, vol. 3, The Sacraments, new edition, by R. Cabié and others (Collegeville: Liturgical Press), pp. 62–63, n. 207. Copyright © 1987. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.

Excerpts (79, 96), Anaphora of Addai and Mari, Strasbourg Papyrus: from Prayers of the Eucharist: Early and Reformed, 3rd rev. edition, ed. R.C.D. Jasper and G.J. Cuming (Collegeville: Liturgical Press), pp. 42–45, 53–54. Copyright © 1992. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.

Excerpt (86-A), Rule of Saint Pachomius. Precepts: from Pachomian Chronicles and Rules, vol. 2, trans. A. Veilleux, Cistercian Studies Series 46 (Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications), pp. 146ff. Copyright © 1981. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.

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ISBN 978-0-8146-6304-2 (e-book)

The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Johnson, Lawrence J., 1933–

Worship in the early church : an anthology of historical sources / Lawrence J. Johnson.

p.      cm.

“A Pueblo book.”

Includes index.

ISBN 978-0-8146-6197-0 (v. 1) — ISBN 978-0-8146-6198-7 (v. 2) — ISBN 978-0-8146-6199-4 (v. 3) — ISBN 978-0-8146-6226-7 (v. 4)

1. Worship—History—Early church, ca. 30–600.   2. Church history—Primitive and early church, ca. 30–600.   I. Title.

BV6.J64   2009

264.00937—dc22

2009035344