Prayers of the Eucharist

This classic work, previously edited by Ronald Jasper and Geoffrey Cuming, has been a staple source in teaching liturgy to generations of students in colleges, seminaries, and universities. It has now been comprehensively revised for future generations of liturgical scholars.

Updates include:

• New introductions that take into account the substantial changes in recent scholarship
• New groupings of the various prayers into liturgical "families" in order to make their relationships clearer
• Plus, new bibliographies

Paul F. Bradshaw is emeritus professor of liturgy at the University of Notre Dame and an Anglican/Episcopal priest. The author or editor of over thirty books and of more than 120 articles and essays, he is also a past president both of the North American Academy of Liturgy and of the international Societas Liturgica. From 1987 to 2005 he was editor-in-chief of the scholarly journal Studia Liturgica.

Maxwell E. Johnson is professor of liturgy at the University of Notre Dame and a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The author or editor of twenty-five books and of more than ninety articles and essays, he is also a past president of the North American Academy of Liturgy, serves as an editorial consultant for Worship, and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Ecclesia Orans.

Bradshaw and Johnson are the co-authors of The Eucharistic Liturgies: Their Evolution and Interpretation; The Origins of Feasts, Fasts, and Seasons in Early Christianity (both from Liturgical Press); and, with L. Edward Phillips, The Apostolic Tradition: A Commentary, Hermeneia (Fortress Press).