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Twenty Centuries of Christian Worship traces the history of the church from the New Testament period through the modern era detailing worship in the early church, the Eastern Orthodox tradition, Roman Catholic worship, post-Reformation worship, and worship renewal movements in the Twentieth Century. Various historic models of worship are represented including The Didache, Martin Luther's Formula...

celebration of particular times of the day in order to mark them with a Christian meaning by prayer. Its complicated history was misunderstood at some key points in liturgical renovation, resulting in prayer books better suited for private prayer than liturgy, which is always the corporate prayer of the people of God. The liturgical tradition upon which the restored books drew was a mixture of two different types of liturgy: one monastic and one popular (known as the “cathedral” form). In order to begin the
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