Table of Contents

Introduction (Melanie C. Ross) / Forword (Iain Torrance) / The Serious Business of Worship (Bryan D. Spinks) / Part I: Early Church and Eastern Traditions Introduction / Chapter 1 (Robert F. Taft): St. John Chrysostom, Preacher Committed to the Seriousness of Worship / Chapter 2 (Michael Daniel Findikyan): The 'Opening of the Door' Ceremony on Palm Sunday in the Armenian Church / Chapter 3 (Gregory Woolfenden): A Tension between Private and Public Prayer? Reflections on the origins of the day hours / Chapter 4 (Anthony Gelston): The East Syrian Eucharistic Prayers / Chapter 5 (Paul Bradshaw): Varieties of Early Christian Baptismal Anointing / II: Patristic and Reformation Eras Introduction / Chapter 6 (Kenneth Stevenson): The Transfiguration Sermon of Peter the Venerable, Abbot of Cluny / Chapter 7 (Gordon Jeanes): Is the Institution Narrative Necessary in the Eucharist? The opinion of Martin Bucer, Corpus Christi, Cambridge, MS 113, pp.315-324 / Chapter 8 (Robin A. Leaver): Metrical Psalms and Canticles, the Book of Common Prayer, and Thomas Cranmer / III: Contemporary Liturgical Renewal Introduction / Chapter 9 (Joseph Britton): The Berkeley Rite / Chapter 10 (Philip Tovey): Two Models of Inculturation and Eucharistic Prayers with Children / Chapter 11 (Simon Jones): 'Outward Ceremony and Honourable Badge': the Theological Significance of the Sign of the Cross in the Baptismal Liturgies of the Church of England and Scottish Episcopal Church / Chapter 12 (Siobhán Garrigan): Is Ecumenical Worship a Serious Business? (Two Case Studies and a Funeral) / Chapter 13 (Maxwell E. Johnson): Is Anything Normative in Contemporary Lutheran Worship? / Chapter 14 (Melanie C. Ross): The Serious Drama of Worship / Chapter 15 (John D. Witvliet): From 'DNA to Cellular Structure': Charting recent evangelical scholarly engagement with corporate worship practices / Bryan D. Spinks: Bibliography of Principal Works / List of Contributors