Studies in Early Christian Liturgy and Its Context (Collected Studies)

This history of Eastern liturgical ritual reveals the world of the Christian Orient in its variety, and in the profundity of its theological thought. These rituals bear witness to the impact which the liturgies made on the Mediterranean cultures and societes of Late Antiquity. The author explores the beginning and early development of these rituals in their historical, philogical, and doctrinal context. Thereby elucidating in the comparative liturgies, the interdependence of the Syriac, Greek and Armenian cultures.