The Orthodox Liturgy: The Development of the Eucharistic Liturgy in the Byzantine Rite (Biblia.com)

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Western observers never fail to be awestruck at the celebration of the Liturgy in an Orthodox Church. In this authoritative yet highly readable account, Hugh Wybrew traces the development of the Orthodox liturgy through the centuries. He conveys a lively and memorable sense of what it would have felt like to be among the worshippers. From its first appearance, The Orthodox Liturgy rapidly...

building as itself a symbolic space, and which provided the best possible framework for the hierarchical arrangement of the images it needed to contain. From this time on it is less than adequate to speak of church decoration, for the mosaics or frescoes applied to the building formed an integral part of the sacred space into which the worshipper entered for the celebration of the sacred mysteries. Church building, church decoration and the Liturgy coalesced into a complex of symbols, in which the

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