The Shape of the Liturgy, New Edition

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A new edition of Gregory Dix's masterpiece, still essential reading for students and scholars and in print constantly for fifty years. Dom Gregory Dix's classic account of the development of the Eucharist rite continues to be the definitive and authoritative work on the subject. He presents his massive scholarship in lively and non technical language for all who wish to understand their worship in terms of the framework from which it has evolved. He demonstrates the creative force of Christianity over the centuries through liturgy and the societies it has moulded. His great work has for nearly fifty years regularly been quoted for its devotional as well as its historical value, and has regularly attracted new readers. In this book for the first time, critical studies in the learned periodicals of many countries have been carefully sifted and the results arranged to give a clear picture of the development of the Eucharistic rite.

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'a new edition of a classic book...a helpful introduction with enough footnotes to help the Dix scholar find his or her way around the literature.' Praxis News of Worship, Phillip Tovey, Director of Reader Training, Diocese of Oxford, and Liturgy Tutor, Ripon College Cuddesdon -- Praxis News of Worship - Phillip Tovey
"This is a valuable piece of scholarship that will certainly enrich student learning in one strand of the liturgical curriculum in Anglican contexts...I welcome this book." Stephen Burns, Charles Sturt University, Australia, Anaphora
'This was the spirit of the Liturgical Movement in probably its finest English literary form. It is certainly no fault of Dix himself that the later liturgical texts he helped to shape have not always been able to communicate so high a degree of fervour.' ~ Glyn Paflin, Times Literary Supplement, 2006 -- Glyn Paflin * Times Literary Supplement *
'if you have never had your own copy of this great classic, here is your opportunity to own a piece of modern liturgical history....If you want to experience the English language in its poetry and beauty you are in for a treat. And, if you want to understand many of the presuppositions that underlie much of modern liturgical renewal, Dix remains required reading.' Worship, Mazwell E. Johnson, -- Maxwell E. Johnson * Worship *

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Dom Gregory Dix was an Anglican Benedictine Monk of Nashdom and an outstanding scholar with an international reputation. The Shape of the Liturgy was his masterpiece.