The Liturgy of Saint Gregory the Theologian

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Saint Dominics Media Inc.

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491_9781732178472

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This is a groundbreaking book in Catholic/Orthodox liturgy offers a new edition of the Liturgy of St. Gregory the Theologian based on the manuscripts of the Greek version of the text: Parisinus Graecus 325, the Kacmarcik Codex and the Wadi n’Natrun fragments. The edition, which is one of the only editions to include sections outside the Anaphoral prayers, builds on and supplements the work that prior scholars have done on the Greek text, such as Gerhards, who edited the Anaphora of the liturgy, and Macomber, who worked with the text in the Kacmarcik Codex. In addition to the edition, this book offers a translation of the text, as well as a commentary. The commentary looks at literary elements, such as intertextuality, philosophical and theological elements and the programmatic use of language. The commentary also attempts to clear up some of the fundamental questions about this text. While many of these questions have been discussed before in the secondary literature dealing with this liturgy, or liturgies generally, often the discussion was limited only in a context that dealt with a partial picture of the text. One of these fundamental questions, among many, concerns the placement of the text in time. The Greek manuscripts are clustered relatively late, in the fourteenth century. Despite this, the liturgy does not seem to be a composition of the Middle Ages, the Coptic versions of the text, for example, date from much earlier, the sixth century or so. Is the Greek text, then, a translation of a Coptic original? A few pieces of internal evidence suggest otherwise, that instead, the late manuscripts of the Greek text are the only extant manuscripts in a much longer tradition. By looking at one of the unique features of the text, the pervasive direct address of Christ, the commentary teases out the origin of the text as an anti-Arian polemical work of the theologically turbulent fourth century. Another important question that is discussed

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