Description: "In recent years, a number of new witnesses to the so-called Apostolic Tradition have been discovered or freshly edited for the first time. Based on these new witnesses, as well as new secondary literature, the translations and commentary provided in this book updates and challenges earlier and more recent studies with special regard to liturgical practices"--
Brief description: Nathan P. Chase (1990-2025) was assistant professor of liturgical and sacramental theology at Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis, Missouri. He contributed articles to the field of liturgical studies, including pieces on liturgy in the early Church, initiation, the Eucharist, inculturation, and the Western Non-Roman Rites, particularly the Hispano-Mozarabic tradition. With Maxwell E. Johnson, he co-authored The Apostolic Tradition: Its Origins, Development, and Liturgical Practices (Liturgical Press, 2025), and The Origins of the Canons of Hippolytus (Liturgical Press, 2024). He was the author of The Homiliae Toletanae and the Theology of Lent and Easter (Peeters, 2020) and The Anaphoral Tradition in the 'Barcelona Papyrus' (Brepols, 2023).
Review Quotes: "A document of enormous complexity, the Apostolic Tradition has long been considered one of the most important sources for the study of early Christian liturgy. With a new commentary that takes into account hitherto untranslated manuscripts from Ethiopic and Arabic, Nathan Chase and Maxwell Johnson have made a valuable contribution to the study of this ancient source. They demonstrate a likely Egyptian provenance of its earliest layers and the slow and complex development of this work of this church order as 'living literature'. It is a work of extraordinary scholarship that should be included on the shelf of every serious scholar of Christian antiquity."
John F. Baldovin, SJ, Boston College, Clough School of Theology and Ministry
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