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While many histories of Christian worship exist, this project undertakes a task both more focused and more urgent. Rather than survey the whole history of the Christian church, it focuses on the formative period between the first and fifth centuries CE, when so many of the understandings and patterns of Christian worship came to be. And rather than include such developments as the monastic hours of prayer and the history of ordination, the authors deal primarily with those aspects of worship that recur on a weekly or regular basis: preaching, Eucharist, and baptism. The book divides its subject into three period. It begins with the emerging worship of the New Testament era. It moves to the second and third centuries, when the church’s main tasks of establishing its identity in relation to its Jewish roots and making its way in a hostile Roman environment showed up in its theology and practice of worship. And it concludes with the fourth and fifth centuries, when introducing the increasing numbers of converts after Constantine to Christian faith became one of the highest priorities of the church’s worship. This resource will serve as a valuable guide to the historical developments that brought about Christian worship as we know it today.

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Philosophie et théologie

Justo González

Justo Gonzalez

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Publié par	Presbyterian Publishing
Date de parution	13 septembre 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781646982653
Langue	English

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Worship in the Early Church
Worship in the Early Church
Justo L. González Catherine Gunsalus González
© 2022 Justo L. González and Catherine Gunsalus González
First English edition
Published by Westminster John Knox Press
Louisville, Kentucky
Spanish edition, El culto en la iglesia antigua , published in 2021 by Editorial Mundo Hispano
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: González, Justo L., author. | González, Catherine Gunsalus, author.
Title: Worship in the early church / Justo L. González, Catherine Gunsalus González.
Other titles: El culto en la iglesia Antigua. English
Description: First English edition. | Louisville : Westminster John Knox Press, 2022. | “Justo L. González and Catherine Gunsalus González Spanish edition, El culto en la iglesia Antigua, published in 2021 by Editorial Mundo Hispano.” | Summary: “Written for students in introduction to worship and church history classes, this resource will serve as a valuable guide to the historical developments that brought about Christian worship as we know it today”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022027355 (print) | LCCN 2022027356 (ebook) | ISBN 9780664267827 (paperback) | ISBN 9781646982653 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Church history—Primitive and early church, ca. 30–600. | Public worship—History.
Classification: LCC BR162.3 .G6613 2022 (print) | LCC BR162.3 (ebook) | DDC 270.1—dc23/eng/20220725
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Contents
A Word to the Reader
Abbreviations
Introduction: Scope, Limits, and General Parameters of This Study
Part I: Judeo-Christianity
1. The Background: Jewish Worship
Jewish Worship: The Cradle of Christian Worship
Troubled Times: The Context of Ancient Jewish Worship
The Temple
Scripture
Diversity among the Jewish People
The Synagogues and the Diaspora
The Jews of the Diaspora
The Calendar, the Times, and Jewish Identity
Proselytes and God-Fearers
The Destruction of the Temple and the Expulsion from the Synagogues
2. Jewish and Judeo-Christian Worship
Sources and Limits
The Temple and Its Worship
The Breach
3. The Judeo-Christian Message
The Case of Antioch of Pisidia
Preaching in Christian Churches
Epistles as a Form of Distance Preaching
The Interpretation of Scripture
4. The Christian Calendar
Continuation of the Jewish Calendar
A New Focus in the Weekly Calendar
The Yearly Calendar
5. From Conversion to Baptism
Conversion and Worship
Jewish Antecedents
Jesus and Baptism
Baptism in Paul and in Acts
Other Books of the New Testament
The Administration of Baptism
Baptism and the People of God
6. Communion
Some Basic Facts
Passover and Communion in Pauline Theology
Passover and Communion in Johannine Theology
A New Passover
The Practice of Communion
Part II: From 100 to 313 CE
7. New Circumstances
An Increasingly Gentile Christianity
The Church before State, Society, and Culture
The Sources
8. Preaching
Letters and Sermons
The Preaching of Hermas
The Second Epistle of Clement
The Epistle of Barnabas and Alexandrine Allegory
Melito of Sardis
9. Baptism
New Conditions: The Catechumenate
The Administration of Baptism: Place and Time
The Administration of Baptism: The Rite Itself
Some Theological Issues
A Variety of Perspectives
Common Points
10. Communion
The Prayer of the Faithful
The Kiss of Peace
The Offertory and Communion Itself
Some Theological Issues
11. Times, Places, and Practices
The Times: Sunday
The Times: Easter
The Times: Times surrounding Easter
The Times: Hours of the Day
The Places: Homes, Churches, and Catacombs
Music
Practices in Daily Life
The End of an Era
Part III: From Constantine to the Invasions
12. New Circumstances
13. Preaching
Basil of Caesarea
John Chrysostom
Ambrose of Milan
Augustine of Hippo
Leo the Great
14. Surrounding Baptism
The Catechumenate
Baptismal Rites
The Meaning of Baptism
15. Surrounding Communion
Fixed Formulae and Splendid Ceremonies
The Great Liturgical Families in East and West
Theological Emphases
16. Times, Places, and Practices
The Times: The Calendar
The Places: The Basilicas
The Places: Other Buildings
The Practices
Part IV: After the Invasions
17. A New Era
The Invasions
The Impact of the Invasions on Worship: Preaching
The Impact of the Invasions on Worship: Baptism
The Impact of the Invasions on Worship: Communion
Places and Practices
18. Epilogue: Today’s Worship between Yesterday and Tomorrow
The First Period: Judeo-Christianity
The Second Period: From 100 to 313 CE
The Third Period: From Constantine to the Invasions
The Fourth Period: After the Invasions
Toward a Radical Reformation of Our Worship

Index
A Word to the Reader
The present book is the outcome of two parallel but different paths that each of its two authors has followed. Originally, Catherine’s interest centered on liturgy and worship. which slowly led her to the study of theology and history. While she focused on worship, Justo was particularly interested in theology. That interest led him to the study of history—particularly the history of theology—and to the slow but continuous discovery of the indissoluble relationship between worship and its practices on one hand, and doctrine on another. These two different paths have converged to the point that now we both consider the history of worship as absolutely necessary if we are to understand the development of theology as well as the history of the church.
Given that background, it is important to note that the book has been written jointly; but not in the sense that each of us wrote certain sections and the other the rest, but rather in the sense of a full collaboration in which we have jointly discussed and outlined what the book should include, and conducted the necessary research in ancient writings and other resources available to us.
Although this book deals with the history of Christian worship, it is not a history of worship. The field itself of the history of worship is enormous, and it includes a vast number of questions that specialists are still discussing. While there are many histories of Christian worship, such histories, precisely because they need to deal with so many debatable issues, are not readily available or interesting to the common reader. They certainly are helpful in understanding details as to various practices, or regarding the evolution of a hymn or ancient formula, and this is of great value. Our goal here is both more modest and more urgent. We are not seeking to give our readers a detailed discussion of each of the elements in worship. What we wish is simply to help worship leaders and believers in general relate their worship with that of the ancient church, not because one is better than the other, but rather because that dialogue between generations and centuries will lead to insights that will enrich today’s worship—and it is out of its worship that the church lives and has lived over the ages.
This is why in this book we say little or nothing about several ceremonies, practices, and contexts that are certainly important, but are not directly related to the weekly worship in most of our churches today. This includes matters such as the manner in which pastors and leaders were chosen and ordained or commissioned, the history of marriage ceremonies, details about the monastic hours of worship, the origin of various liturgical formulae, and much more. When it has seemed significant, we have referred to some of these issues and practices, but they have not been the focus of this study.
That focus is those elements of worship in the ancient church that are most closely related to worship in most Protestant churches, usually on Sundays. These common essential elements in worship are basically three: preaching, baptism, and Communion. Therefore, in each section of the present book we shall be studying those three subjects—usually in the same order. Our interest is not so much what was done and said, but rather why such things were said and done—in other words, not so much the practice of worship itself as the theology—or theologies—expressed in that practice and shaped by it. Thus we hope to move beyond our present and mostly fruitless debates on worship and into a deeper exploration of the understanding of the church and of the gospel that shapes worship itself. In brief, our purpose is not to let the history of worship be known, but rather to help readers have access to valuable elements of ancient Christian worship that may help us in our reflection and in our present debates about our own worship and our mission as the church. If this book makes a contribution along those lines, we shall be more than amply rewarded.
Abbreviations
ANF
Ante-Nicene Fathers
BAC
Biblioteca de A