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The Shape of the Liturgy, New Edition

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Continuum International Publishing Group, Aug 24, 2005 - Religion - 764 pages
A new edition of Gregory Dix's masterpiece, still essenytial reading for students and scholars and in print constantly for fifty years.

Dom Gregory Dix's classic account of the development of the Eucharist rite continues to be the definitive and authoritative work on the subject. He presents his massive scholarhsip in lively and non technical language for all who wish to understand their worship in terms of the framework from which it has evolved.

He demonstrates the creative force of Christianity over the centuries through liturgy and the societies it has moulded. His great work has for nearly fifty years regularly been quoted for its devotional as well as its historical value, and has regularly attracted new readers.

In this book for the first time, critical studies in the learned periodicals of many countries have been carefully sifted and the results arranged to give a clear picture of the development of the Eucharistic rite.

  

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Review: The Shape of the Liturgy, New Edition

User Review  - Nathaniel - Goodreads

A masterly piece of liturgical study. Clearly written, scrupulously researched and hardly any moments of cumbersome narrative. Dix puts forward a thesis of the liturgy where the Eucharist is primarily ... Read full review

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User Review  - Steven Wedgeworth - Goodreads

Useful for understanding a certain period in the 20th cent. liturgical movement, but mostly flawed on the historical account. Read full review

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Selected pages

Contents

CHATTO
1
THE PERFORMANCE OF THE LITURGY
12
THE CLASSICAL SHAPE OF THE LITURGYI
36
EUCHARIST AND LORDS SUPPER
48
THE CLASSICAL SHAPE OF THE LITURGYII
103
THE PRENICENE BACKGROUND OF THE LITURGY
141
THE EUCHARISTIC PRAYER
156
The Syrian TraditionThe Liturgy of SS Addai and Man
204
The Development of Ceremonial
397
The Completion of the Shape of the Liturgy
434
Variable Prayers at the Eucharist
527
The Mediaeval Development
546
tHArrn tiqm
603
The Reformation and the Anglican Liturgy
613
Throughout all Ages World without End
735
Index
754

The Theology of Consecration 068
268
The Sanctification of Time
303
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The Shape of the Liturgy: Chapter 1 « Reformed Liturgical Institute
The following is the beginning of what I hope becomes a complete summary of Dom Gregory Dix’s magnum opus The Shape of the Liturgy. I want to make it clear ...
liturgicalinstitute.wordpress.com/ 2006/ 08/ 02/ the-shape-of-the-liturgy-chapter-1/

Three Hierarchies: The Shape of the Liturgy
The Shape of the Liturgy. In drawing near to the end of Dom Gregory Dix's Shape of the Liturgy (only 150 pages or so to go! - - more on Dix here, here, ...
threehierarchies.blogspot.com/ 2005/ 08/ shape-of-liturgy.html

Gregory Dix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He produced the first critical edition of the Apostolic Tradition in 1935; but his most influential book is The Shape of the Liturgy, first published in ...
en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Gregory_Dix

JSTOR: The Shape of Athenian Law
The title of this work is a compliment to the late Dr Gregory Dix's The shape of the liturgy (1945). Dom Gregory was an anglican Benedictine who developed ...
links.jstor.org/ sici?sici=0075-4269(1997)117%3C239%3ATSOAL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-O

Excerts from
The Completion of the Shape of the Liturgy. XV. The Mediaeval Development. VI. The Pre-Nicene Background of the Liturgy. Despite its extreme structural ...
www.holytrinitymission.org/ books/ english/ shape_of_liturgy_g_dix.htm

BOOK REVIEWS 269 numerous articles in various periodicals may be ...
BOOK REVIEWS. 269. numerous articles in various periodicals may. be consulted. The plates give Trevor's unretouched photo- ...
jaar.oxfordjournals.org/ cgi/ reprint/ XVIII/ 4/ 269-b.pdf

Christian Century: Christian Liturgy: Catholic and Evangelical ...
Senn's work stands in the tradition of Joseph Jungmann's Mass of the Roman Rite, Gregory Dix's The Shape of the Liturgy and Luther Reed's The Lutheran ...
findarticles.com/ p/ articles/ mi_m1058/ is_n27_v115/ ai_21235054/ print

WEMSK27 The Liturgy
Dom Gregory Dix, The Shape of the Liturgy, 2d ed. (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1945). Often cited and quite readable. A good first read. ...
www.the-orb.net/ wemsk/ liturgywemsk.html

Liturgica.com | Liturgics | Western Roman Liturgics | Carolingian ...
The Shape of the Liturgy. London, 1945. Jungmann, Josef. The Mass of the Roman Rite: Its Origins and Development. II vols. translated by Francis A. Brunner. ...
www.liturgica.com/ html/ litWLCarol.jsp

BIBLIOGRAPHY #3: History of the Eucharist
Gregory Dix, The Shape of the Liturgy (London: Westminster, 1945). Dated in many respects, but one of the most. influential studies of the century. ...
camellia.shc.edu/ theology/ pdf/ HistoryEucharist.pdf

About the author (2005)

Dom Gregory Dix was an Anglican Benedictine Monk of Nashdom and an outstanding scholar with an international reputation. The Shape of the Liturgy was his masterpiece.

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TitleThe Shape of the Liturgy, New Edition
New Edition
AuthorGregory Dix
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherContinuum International Publishing Group, 2005
ISBN0826479421, 9780826479426
Length764 pages
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