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This nine-volume collection presents the eloquent writings of Anglican monk and priest Dom Gregory Dix. In his lifetime, Dix was many things: liturgical scholar, Anglican Benedictine monk, priest, historian, papalist, and prolific writer. His writing was based on apostolic traditions, early church history, and the works of Justin Martyr, Hippolytus of Rome, and the Syriac Liturgy of Addai and...

This may appear a somewhat hesitating recommendation of a book professing to give historical information. Emphatically, I should not claim that it is exhaustive or definitive as a history, though I am soberly confident that the broad outlines of the history of the liturgy as it is incidentally sketched here will not be greatly modified when the results of modern study come to be assessed, perhaps in a generation’s time. Details will be corrected; considerable gaps will be filled in; some things will
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