Further Issues in Eucharistic Praying in East and West

Maxwell E. Johnson is emeritus professor of liturgy at the University of Notre Dame and a retired presbyter in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. His numerous publications are on the origins and development of early Christian liturgy, contemporary rites, and current ecumenical and theological questions in both East and West. He is the author and/or editor of more than twenty books and over one hundred essays and articles. He is also a former president of the North American Academy of Liturgy, a member of the Society of Oriental Liturgy, a member of Societas Liturgica, and a member of the scientific advisory board for the journal Ecclesia Orans.

Contents

Introduction ix
       Maxwell E. Johnson
I. Balancing Eucharistic Origins in the Work of Gordon Lathrop and Thomas O’Loughlin    1
       Megan Effron
II. Shaping the Classical Anaphoras of the Fourth through Sixth Centuries    23
       Nathan P. Chase
III. The Εἷς Θεός Acclamations in the Barcelona Papyrus: A Eucharistic Liturgy without the Opening Line of the Christian Anaphoral Dialogue    61
       Arsany Paul
IV. The Making of the Maronite Sharar: A Reception History for the Anaphora of Addai and Mari    85
       Paul J. Elhallal
V. The Egyptian Origins of the Anaphora in Mystagogical Catechesis V ascribed to Cyril of Jerusalem    131
       Maxwell E. Johnson
VI. The Deifying Sacrifice: Thysia in the Eucharistic Prayers of Byzantine Basil    153
       Lucas Lynn Christensen 
VII. Authority and Confluence of Traditions in Aksum: The Heritage of the Anaphora of the Apostolic Tradition in the Ethiopian Anaphora of the Apostles    171
       Andrij Hlabse, SJ
VIII. English Vernacular Translation of the Roman Canon    217
       Julia Canonico
IX. Igbo Translations of the Roman Canon: Inculturation, the Battle for the Soul of Latin, or . . . ?    255
       Joachim Chukwuebuka Ozonze
X. Recent Thoughts on the Roman Anaphora: Sacrifice in the Canon Missae    287
       Maxwell E. Johnson

Acknowledgments    319
List of Contributors    321
Index    323