Worship in the Early Church: An Anthology of Historical Sources

A Pueblo Book published by Liturgical Press

Cover design by David Manahan, OSB

Excerpts (2, 3, 5, 6), Qiddush for Sabbaths and Feasts, Birkat ha-mazon, Shemaʾ Yiśraʿel and Its Blessings, Shemoneh Esre: translated, with permission of the publisher, from Prex Eucharistica, ed. A. Hänggi and I. Pahl, Spicilegium Friburgense 12 (Fribourg: Editions Universitaires), pp. 5–7, 9–12, 35–39, 41–54. Copyright © 1968.

Excerpt (33-A), Inscription of Pectorius: from Infant Baptism in the First Four Centuries, by J. Jeremias, trans. D. Cairns (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press), p. 42. Copyright © 1962. Reprinted by permission of SCM Press in London.

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ISBN 978-0-8146-6305-5 (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