Revised: 6/99

BIBLIOGRAPHY #8: Cyril of Jerusalem & Early Christian Worship

1. EARLY CHRISTIAN WORSHIP: STUDIES

Cheslyn Jones, Geoffrey Wainwright, Edward Yarnold, Paul Bradshaw, eds. The Study of Liturgy, revised edition

(New York: Oxford University Press, 1992) paperback, $20. Brief articles, many covering aspects of early
Christian worship. A good place to start.

Raymond Johanny, ed., The Eucharist of the Early Christians (New York: Pueblo Books, 1978 / Collegeville, MN:

The Liturgical Press) paperback, $13. A fine series of simply-written articles on the eucharist as it was
celebrated before 300 AD A chapter on each of the early Church Fathers who discuss the eucharist.

Paul F. Bradshaw, The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship: Sources and Methods for the Study of the Early

Liturgy (New York: Oxford, 1992) paperback, $11. An excellent set of essays on the difficulties of piecing
together the shape of early Christian worship. Vital for anyone wanting to understand how to study liturgy.

John F. Baldovin, Liturgy in Ancient Jerusalem, Alcuin / GROW Liturgical Study 9, Grove Liturgical Study #57

(Bramcote Nottingham: Grove Books Limited, 1989). From a valuable, but hard-to-find series.

Roger Beckwith, Daily and Weekly Worship: Jewish to Christian, Alcuin / GROW Liturgical Study 1, Grove

Liturgical Study #57 (Bramcote Nottingham: Grove Books Limited, 1987).

Alan Bouley, From Freedom to Formula: The Evolution of the Eucharistic Prayer from Oral Improvisation to

Written Texts, Studies in Christian Antiquity 21 (Washington: Catholic University of America, 1981).

Paul F. Bradshaw, ed., Essays on Early Eastern Eucharistic Prayers (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press [A

Pueblo Book], 1997) paperback, $30.

Paul F. Bradshaw, Ordination Rites of the Ancient Churches of East and West (New York: Pueblo, 1990 /

Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press) paperback,

Paul F. Bradshaw, Daily Prayer in the Early Church: A Study of the Origin and Early Development of the Divine

Office (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982).

Paul F. Bradshaw, ed., Essays in Early Eastern Initiation, Alcuin / GROW Liturgical Study 8, Grove Liturgical

Study #56 (Bramcote Nottingham: Grove Books Limited, 1988).

Paul F. Bradshaw, Liturgical Presidency in the Early Church, Grove Liturgical Study #36 (Bramcote Nottingham:

Grove Books, 1983).

Colin Buchanan, Essays on Eucharistic Sacrifice in the Early Church, Grove Liturgical Study #40 (Bramcote

Nottingham: Grove Books, 1984).

DiSante Carmine, Jewish Prayer: The Origins of Christian Liturgy (New York: Paulist Press, 1991).
William R. Crockett, Eucharist: Symbol of Transformation (New York: Pueblo, 1989 / Collegeville, MN: The

Liturgical Press) paperback, $16.

Geoffrey J. Cuming, ed., Essays on Hippolytus, Grove Liturgical Study #15 (Bramcote Nottingham: Grove Books,

1978).

Emmanuel J. Cutrone, “The Anaphora of the Apostles: Implications of the Mar Esa’ya Text,” Theological Studies 34

(1973): 624-642.

Emmanuel J. Cutrone, “Cyril’s Mystagogical Catecheses and the Evolution of the Jerusalem Anaphora,” Orientalia

Christiana Periodica XLIV (1978): 52-64.

Emmanuel J. Cutrone, “The Lord’s Prayer and the Eucharist: The Syrian Tradition,” Eulogema: Studies in Honor of

Robert Taft, S.J., Studia Anselmiana 110 (Roma, 1993) 93-106.

Emmanuel J. Cutrone, “Prayers over the Cup: Witness of Early Documents,” in Tuvaik: Studies in Honour of Revd.

Dr. Jacob Vellian, Syrian Churches Series XVI (Kottayam, 1995).

Emmanuel J. Cutrone, “The Liturgical Setting of the Institution Narrative in the East Syrian Tradition,” in Time and

Community, ed. J. Neil Alexander (Washington, DC: Pastoral Press, 1990) 105-114.

James Dallen, The Reconciling Community: The Rite of Penance (New York: Pueblo, 1986 / Collegeville, MN:

Liturgical Press). Superb chapters on Cyprian and the rite of public penance.

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Gregory Dix, The Shape of the Liturgy (London, 1945). One of the classics of the century that contributed much to

the Vatican II return to patristic liturgy as model.

Alexis Doval, “The Location and Structure of the Baptistery in the Mystagogic Catecheses of Cyril of Jerusalem,”

Studia Patristica 25, ed. Elizabeth A. Livingstone (Leuven: Peeters, 1993) 1-13.

Joseph A. Favazza, The Order of Penitents: Historical Roots and Pastoral Future (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical

Press, 1988) paperback.

John Fenwick, ed., ‘The Missing Oblation’: The Contents of the Early Antiochene Anaphora, Alcuin / GROW

Liturgical Study 11, Grove Liturgical Study #59 (Bramcote Nottingham: Grove Books Limited, 1989).

John Fenwick, Fourth Century Anaphoral Construction Techniques, Grove Liturgical Study #45 (Bramcote

Nottingham: Grove Books, 1986).

Everett Ferguson, ed., Conversion, Catechumenate, and Baptism in the Early Church, Studies in Early Christianity:

A Collection of Scholarly Essays, vol. 11 (New York: Garland Publishing, 1993) hardcover, $60.

Everett Ferguson, ed., Worship in Early Christianity, Studies in Early Christianity: A Collection of Scholarly Essays,

vol. 15 (New York: Garland Publishing, 1993) hardcover, $60.

Thomas M. Finn, From Death to Rebirth: Ritual and Conversion in Antiquity (New York: Paulist Press, 1997)

paperback, $20.

Thomas M. Finn, The Liturgy of Baptism in the Baptismal Instructions of St. John Chrysostom, Studies in Christian

Antiquity 15 (Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1967).

Thomas M. Finn, “It Happened One Saturday Night: Ritual and Conversion in Augustine’s North Africa,” Journal of

the American Academy of Religion 58 (1990): 589-616.

Thomas M. Finn, “Ritual Process and the Survival of Early Christianity: A Study of the Apostolic Tradition of

Hippolytus,” Journal of Religious Studies 3 (1989): 68-89.

Thomas M. Finn, “Baptismal Death and Resurrection: A Study in Fourth-Century Eastern Baptismal Theology,”

Worship 43 (1969): 175-189.

Edward Foley, Foundations of Christian Music: The Music of Pre-Constantinian Christianity Alcuin / GROW

Liturgical Study #23-24 (Bramcote Nottingham: Grove Books Limited, 1992).

Anthony Gelston, The Eucharistic Prayer of Addai and Mari (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992) hardcover,

$60.

R.P.C. Hanson, Eucharistic Offering in the Early Church, Grove Liturgical Study 19 (Bramcote Nottingham: Grove

Books, 1979).

William Harmless, Augustine and the Catechumenate (Collegeville: The Liturgical Press [A Pueblo Book], 1995)

paperback, $35.

D.L. Holland, “The Baptismal Interrogation Concerning the Holy Spirit in Hippolytus,” Studia Patristica 10:360-

365.

David G. Hunter, ed., Preaching in the Patristic Age: Studies in Honor of Walter J. Burghardt (New York: Paulist

Press, 1989) out of print.

Gordon P. Jeanes, The Origins of the Roman Rite, Alcuin / GROW Liturgical Study #20 (Bramcote Nottingham:

Grove Books Limited, 1991).

Clayton N. Jefford, ed., The Didache in Context: Essays on Its Text, History, and Transmission (Leiden and New

York: E.J. Brill, 1995) hardcover, $150.

Joachim Jeremias, The Eucharistic Words of Jesus (New York: Scribners, 1966). A classic.
Maxwell E. Johnson, The Prayers of Sarapion of Thmuis: A Literary, Liturgical, and Theological Analysis,

Orientalia Christiana Analecta 249 (Rome: Pontificio Instituto Orientale, 1995) paperback, $20.

Maxwell E. Johnson, ed., Living Water, Sealing Spirit: Readings on Christian Initiation (Collegeville: The

Liturgical Press [A Pueblo Book], 1995) paperback, $28.

Maxwell E. Johnson, “A Fresh Look at the Prayers of Sarapion of Thmuis,” Studia Liturgica 22 (1992) 163-183.
Josef Jungmann, The Mass of the Roman Rite, trans. Francis A. Brunner (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame

Press, 1959). Dated, but a classic.

Josef Jungmann, The Early Liturgy: To the Time of Gregory the Great, trans. Francis Brunner (Notre Dame:

University of Notre Dame Press, 1959). A classic, good on Gregory, but dated on baptismal documents.

Aidan Kavanagh, Confirmation: Origins and Reform (New York: Pueblo, 1988 / Collegeville, MN: Liturgical

Press). A provocative reconstruction of the origins, well-written.

Theodor Klauser, A Short History of the Western Liturgy, 2

nd

ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979)

paperback, $20.

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Jerome Kodell, The Eucharist in the New Testament, Zaccheus Studies (Wilmington: Michael Glazier, 1988 /

Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press). A good overview.

Gerhard Ladner, God, Cosmos, and Humankind: The World of Early Christian Symbolism (Berkeley: U. of

California Press, 1995) hardcover, $45.

Eugene LaVerdiere, The Eucharist in the New Testament and the Early Church (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical

Press [A Pueblo Book], 1996) paperback, $18.

Xavier Leon-Dufour, Sharing the Eucharistic Bread: The Witness of the New Testament (New York: Paulist Press,

1986). Bold conclusion, but one of the best recent studies.

Hervé Legrand, “The Presidency of the Eucharist according to the Ancient Tradition,” in Living Bread, Saving Cup,

ed. Kevin Seasoltz (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1982): 196-221.

Louis Ligier, “The Origins of the Eucharistic Prayer,” Studia Liturgica 9 (1973): 161-185.
Enrico Mazza, Mystagogy: A Theology of Liturgy in the Patristic Age (New York: Pueblo, 1989 / Collegeville, MN:

The Liturgical Press) paperback, $20. Unduly technical.

Enrico Mazza, The Origins of the Eucharistic Prayer, trans. Ronald Lane (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press [A

Pueblo Book], 1995) paperback, $20.

Andrew McGowan, Ascetic Eucharists: Food and Drink in Early Christian Ritual Meals, Oxford Early Christian

Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) hardcover, $70. NEW. Not yet available.

Marcel Metzger, History of the Liturgy: The Major Stages, trans. Madelein Beaumont (Collegeville, MN: The

Liturgical Press, 1997) paperback, $17.

Robert Milburn, Early Christian Art & Architecture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988) paperback $14.

Rather technical.

L.L. Mitchell, “Ambrosian Baptismal Rites,” Studia Liturgica (1962): 241-253; reprinted in Worship: Initiation and

the Churches (Washington: Pastoral Press, 1991) 75-89.

Nathan Mitchell and John Baldovin, ed., Rule of Prayer, Rule of Faith: Essays in Honor of Aidan Kavanagh

(Collegeville: The Liturgical Press [A Pueblo Book], 1996) paperback, $30.

Kilian McDonnell and George T. Montague, Christian Initiation and Baptism in the Holy Spirit: Evidence from the

First Eight Centuries (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press [A Michael Glazier Book], 1991) paperback,
$15.

Kilian McDonnell, The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan: The Trinitarian and Cosmic Order of Salvation

(Collegeville: The Liturgical Press [A Michael Glazier Book], 1996) paperback, $28.

Kurt Niederwimmer, The Didache: A Commentary, Hermeneia (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998) hardcover, $52.

NEW. A verse-by-verse commentary; part of a highly respected biblical commentary series.

Kenan B. Osborne, Reconciliation and Justification: The Sacrament and Its Theology (New York: Paulist Press,

1990). See the initial chapters.

David N. Power, The Eucharistic Mystery: Revitalizing the Tradition (New York: Crossroad, 1994) paperback, $18.

Dense, but valuable.

Hans-Joachim Schulz, The Byzantine Liturgy: Symbolic Structure and Faith Expression, trans. Matthew J.

O’Connell (New York: Pueblo, 1986 / Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press) paperback, $18.

Anthony A. Stephenson, “St. Cyril of Jerusalem and Alexandrian Heritage.” Theological Studies 15 (1954):573-593.
Anthony A. Stephenson, “The Lenten Catechetical Syllabus in Fourth-Century Jerusalem.” Theological Studies 15

(1964):103-116.

Kenneth W. Stevenson, The First Rites: Worship in the Early Church (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1989)

paperback, $8. A very simple introduction.

Robert F. Taft, The Byzantine Liturgy: A Short History (Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 1992) paperback, $7.
Robert F. Taft, The Liturgy of the Hours in East and West: The Origins of the Divine Office and Its Meaning Today,

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nd

rev. ed. (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1986) paperback, $25.

Thomas J. Talley, The Origins of the Liturgical Year (New York: Pueblo, 1986 / Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press)

paperback, $20.

Thomas J. Talley, “The Origin of Lent at Alexandria.” Studia Patristica 17:594-612, ed. E.A. Livingstone (Oxford:

Pergamon Press, 1982).

Thomas J. Talley, “From Berakah to Eucharistia: A Reopening Question,” Worship 50 (1976): 115-137.
Thomas J. Talley, “The Literary Structure of the Eucharistic Prayer,” Worship 58 (1984): 404-420.
A.F. Walls, “A Note on the Apostolic Claim in the Church Order Literature.” Studia Patristica 2:83-92, ed. Kurt

Aland, F.L. Cross (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1957).

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Herman Wegman, Christian Worship in East and West: A Study Guide to Liturgical History, trans. Gordon W.

Lathrop (New York: Pueblo, 1985 / Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press) paperback, $20.

Rowan D. Williams, Eucharistic Sacrifice: The Roots of a Metaphor, Grove Liturgical Study 31 (Bramcote,

Nottingham: Grove Press Limited, 1982).

Gabriele Winkler, “The Original Meaning of the Prebaptismal Anointing and Its Implications,” Worship 52 (1978):

24-45.

E.C. Whitaker, “The History of the Baptismal Formula,” Journal of Ecclesiastical History 16 (1965):1-12.
L. Michael White, Building God’s House in the Roman World: Architectural Adaptation among Pagans, Jews, and

Christians (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1990).

Edward J. Yarnold, “The Ceremonies of Initiation in the De Sacramentis and De Mysteriis of St. Ambrose.” Studia

Patristica 10:453-463, ed. F.L. Cross (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1970).

Edward J. Yarnold, “Did St. Ambrose know the Mystagogic Catecheses of St. Cyril of Jerusalem?” Studia Patristica

12:184-189, ed. E. Livingstone (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1975).

2. EARLY CHRISTIAN WORSHIP: TEXTS

Thomas Finn, Early Christian Baptism and the Catechumenate, Message of the Fathers, vol. 5: West and East Syria

and vol. 6: Italy, North Africa, Egypt (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1992) paperback, $18 per
volume. At long last, an easy-to-find and comprehensive anthology on the ancient catechumenate. These
are must reading for anyone working in RCIA. A gold-mine of material, some from hard-to-find hardbacks,
some newly translated. Included are the mystagogical catecheses of Cyril of Jerusalem, John Chrysostom,
Theodore of Mopsuestia, Ambrose, Augustine; the eyewitness descriptions of Egeria; excerpts from church
orders—the Didache, Didiscalia, and the Ordo of Constantinople; baptismal lyrics from the greatest of the
ancient Christian poets, Ephrem the Syrian.

Daniel J. Sheerin, ed., The Eucharist, Message of the Fathers 7 (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1986)

paperback, $18. The eucharist was not the focus of doctrinal debate in the early church. So discussions of
the theology of eucharist are best found in the mystagogical sermons, given to the newly baptized during
Easter Week. Sheerin gives an excellent selection of these early catecheses—including some not previously
translated. Sheerin also reprints translations found only in hard-to-find hardbacks. His collection includes
the mystagogical catecheses of Cyril of Jerusalem, Ambrose, and Augustine.

R.J.S. Barrett-Lennard, ed., The Sacramentary of Sarapion of Thmuis: A Text for Students, Alcuin / GROW

Liturgical Study 25 (Bramcote Nottingham: Grove Books Limited, 1993).

Maurice Bevenot, St. Cyprian: The Lapse, The Unity of the Catholic Church, Ancient Christian Writers 25

(Westminster, MD: Newman Press, 1957 / New York: Paulist Press).

Paul F. Bradshaw, ed., The Canons of Hippolytus, with a translation by Carol Bebawi, Alcuin / GROW Liturgical

Study 2, Grove Liturgical Study #50 (Bramcote Nottingham: Grove Books Limited, 1987).

Sebastian Brock and Michael Vasey, trans., The Liturgical Portions of the Didascalia, Grove Liturgical Study #29

(Bramcote Nottingham: Grove Books, 19__).

Geoffrey J. Cuming, ed., Hippolytus: A Text for Students, Grove Liturgical Study 8 (Bramcote Nottingham: Grove

Books, 1976).

Lucien Deiss, ed., Springtime of the Liturgy: Liturgical Texts of the First Four Centuries (Collegeville, MN: The

Liturgical Press, 1979) paperback, $15.

George E. Gingras, ed. Egeria: Diary of A Pilgrimage, Ancient Christian Writers 38 (New York: Newman Press,

1970).

W. Jardine Grisbrooke, ed., The Liturgical Portions of the Apostolic Constitutions: A Text for Students, Alcuin /

GROW Liturgical Study 13-14, Grove Liturgical Study #61 (Bramcote Nottingham: Grove Books Limited,
1990).

R.C.D. Jasper and Geoffrey C. Cuming, eds., Prayers of the Eucharist: Early and Reformed, 3

rd

ed. (Collegeville,

MN: Pueblo / Liturgical Press, 1989) paperback, $20.

Gordon P. Jeanes, ed., The Origins of the Roman Rite, Alcuin / GROW Liturgical Study 20, Grove Liturgical Study

#67 (Bramcote Nottingham: Grove Books Limited, 1991).

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William LeSaint, Tertullian: Treatises on Penance; On Penance and On Purity, Ancient Christian Writers 28

(Westminster, MD: Newman Press, 1959 / New York: Paulist Press).

David N. Power, Irenaeus of Lyons on Baptism and Eucharist: Selected Texts, Alcuin / GROW Liturgical Study 18,

Grove Liturgical Study #65 (Bramcote Nottingham: Grove Books Limited, 1991).

Grant Sperry-White, The Testamentum Domini: A Text for Students, Alcuin / GROW Liturgical Study 19, Grove

Liturgical Study #66 (Bramcote Nottingham: Grove Books Limited, 1991).

Bryan Spinks, Addai and Mari: A Text for Students, Grove Liturgical Study #24 (Bramcote Nottingham: Grove

Books, 1980).

E.C. Whitaker, Documents of the Baptismal Liturgy, revised ed. (London: SPCK, 1970) paperback, $30.
Edward Yarnold, The Awe-Inspiring Rites of Initiation: the Origins of the RCIA, second edition (Collegeville, MN:

The Liturgical Press, 1994) paperback, $15

3. SPECIAL TOPICS

Peter Brown, The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity (Chicago: University of Chicago,

1981) paperback, $9. Another classic by Peter Brown. He shatters the widespread view that the Catholic
veneration of the saints was a form of paganism that crept in the back door, or that the Church had somehow
succumbed to popular religion. He shows how the rise of interest in the saints stemmed from the Christian
belief in the resurrection and from the patronage system of the late Roman Empire.

Robert Eno, The Rise of the Papacy (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1991) paperback, $13. An excellent study of the

papacy from its beginnings to Gregory the Great. Many will be surprised to find out things well known in
scholarly circles: that Rome did not seem to have had a single bishop governing the local church until
somewhere in the 180s; that while the bishop of Rome had prestige, his real power was limited: his
decisions were not de facto recognized by the Greek East nor by North Africa.

Moshe Barasch, Icon: Studies in the History of an Idea (New York: New York University, 1992) paperback, $14.
Caroline Walker Bynum, The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336, Lectures on the History

of Religions 15 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995) paperback, $18.

Brian E. Daley, Hope of the Early Church: a Handbook of Patristic Eschatology (Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press, 1991) hardcover, $50.

Brian E. Daley, trans., On the Dormition of Mary: Early Patristic Homilies (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s

Seminary Press, 1998) paperback, $14. NEW.

Everett Ferguson, The Demonology of the Early Christian World (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1984).
Everett Ferguson, ed., Art, Archaeology and Architecture of Early Christianity, Studies in Early Christianity: A

Collection of Scholarly Essays, vol. 18 (New York: Garland Publishing, 1993) hardcover, $60.

Paul Finney, The Invisible God: The Earliest Christians on Art (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994)

paperback, $18.

W.H.C. Frend, The Archeology of Early Christianity: a History (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1996) NEW in paperback,

$20.

Charles E. Hill, Regnum Caelorum: Patterns of Future Hope in Early Christianity, Oxford Early Christian Studies

(New York: Oxford University Press, 1992) hardcover, $60.

E.D. Hunt, Holy Land Pilgrimage in the Later Roman Empire A.D. 312-460 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982).
John Lowden, Early Christian and Byzantine Art (London: Phaidon, 1997) paperback, $23. NEW.
Richard Krautheimer, Three Christian Capitals: Topography & Politics, (Berkeley: University of California Press,

1983) paperback, $18.

James McKinnon, Music in Early Christian Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
Patricia Cox Miller, Dreams in Late Antiquity (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994).
Jeffrey Burton Russell, Satan: The Early Christian Tradition (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1981)

paperback, $18.

Carolinne White, Christian Friendship in the Fourth Century (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992)

hardback, $40.

Robert L. Wilken, The Land Called Holy: Palestine in Christian History & Thought (New Haven: Yale University

Press, 1992) paperback, $18.

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Mahmoud Zibawi, Eastern Christian Worlds (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1996) hardcover, $90.