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Excerpt (117), Inscription. Lateran Baptistery: from the article “The Fountain of Life in Manuscripts of the Gospels,” by P.A. Underwood in Dumbarton Oaks Papers 5 (Cambridge, MA), 55. Reprinted courtesy of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Trustees for Harvard University.

Excerpt (140-A), Hymn for the Dedication of a New Church: from Eucharist and Eschatology, by G. Wainwright (London: Oxford University Press), p. 47. Copyright © 1971. Reprinted by permission of SCM Press.

Excerpts (143-A), The Seventy-Three Canons: from The Canons Ascribed to Mārūtā of Maipherqat and Related Sources, vol. 2, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 440, ed. A. Vööbus (Leuven: Peeter’s Publishers), pp. 94–95. Copyright © 1982. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

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ISBN 978-0-8146-6328-8 (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