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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The Oxford History of Christian Worship is a comprehensive and authoritative history lavishly illustrated of the origins and devel- opment of Christian worship up to the pre- sent day. Following contemporary methods in scholarship it attends to social and cul- tural contexts and examines the worship traditions from both Eastern and Western Christianity ancient and modern. It offers a chronological account while encompassing spatial and confessional variations from Btists in Britain to Roman Catholics in Mexico from Orthodox in Ethiopia to Pen- tecostals in the United States from Lutheran and Reformed in Europe to united churches in India and Australia. The material details of Christian worship such as music architec- ture and the visual arts are considered within specific cultural contexts throughout the volume as well as studied thematically in individual chapters. Geoffrey Wainwright and Karen B. Westerfield Tucker have assembled an inter- national roster of experts as contributors Written in an accessible style this unique and beautiful volume is an invaluable resource for clergy and liturgists as well as anyone interested in worship theology and history. (OS)