Anton Baumstark's "On the Historical Development of the Liturgy"
(1923) complements his classic work, Comparative Liturgy. Together
they lay out his liturgical methodology. "Comparative Liturgy"
presents his method; "On the Historical Development of the Liturgy
offers his model."
This book was written for one audience and valued by another.
Written to lead adherents of the nascent German liturgical movement
to a deeper religious appreciation of Catholic worship, its
methodology and scope have won the appreciation of liturgical
specialists for nearly a century. In describing the organic growth
of the liturgy, its shaping and distortion, Baumstark's reach
extends from India to Ireland, Moscow to Axum, Carthage to Xi 'an.
He discusses the influences of language, literature, doctrine,
piety, politics, and culture. While his audacity can be
breathtaking and his hypotheses grandiose, his approach is
nevertheless stimulating. In this annotated edition, Fritz West
provides the first English translation of this work by Anton
Baumstark.
"Trained in classical and oriental philology, Anton Baumstark
(1872 '1948) was prodigious as a scholar studying the literature,
art, and liturgy of the whole church 'Oriental, Eastern, and
Western. Comparative liturgy, his method for studying the
historical development of the liturgy as an organism, has had a
lasting influence, notably on the liturgical study of the Christian
East. Fritz West, aliturgical scholar ordained in the United Church
of Christ, has written numerous articles on liturgical methodology,
the three-year lectionary, and worship in his Reformed tradition.
He has published two books, " The Comparative Liturgy of Anton
Baumstark and Scripture and Memory: The Ecumenical Hermeneutic of
the Three-Year Lectionaries.
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