Joint Liturgical Studies
Joint Liturgical Studies offers a valuable contribution to the
study of liturgy. Each issue considers a particular aspect of
liturgical development, such as the origins of the Roman rite,
Anglican Orders, welcoming the Baptised, and Anglican Missals. It
is aimed at all with an academic interest in worship.
It is published twice a year in partnership with the Alcuin
Club, which promotes the study of Christian liturgy, and the Group
for Renewal of Worship (GROW).
Volume 91: The Apostolic Tradition
Reconstructed
A Text for Students
Paul F. Bradshaw
This reconstruction of the anonymous and untitled ancient
church order that was formerly imagined to have been
the Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus is
distinctive from other modern editions of it in two
ways.
First, it draws on an early Ethiopic
translation of the missing original Greek text that was only
published in full as recently as 2011 by Alessandro
Bausi and, except where there is a surviving passage in Greek,
employs it exclusively to fill in the gaps in the
incomplete early Latin version, rather than the much later Coptic,
Arabic, and Ethiopic translations that had to be used
prior to that. This has resulted in some significantly
different readings.
Secondly, it displays what are judged to have been
successive chronological layers within the church
order in a more visual manner by the use of distinctive
typefaces for each of these strata from the second
century to the early part of the fourth century, and it
accompanies the translation with explanatory notes
designed to help the newcomer understand better the evolution
of the text.
Born in England in 1945, Paul
Bradshaw was Professor of Liturgy at the University of
Notre Dame from 1985 until his retirement in 2013. His
research has specialized in early Christian worship, and he has
written or edited more than thirty books and over 130
articles. He was also editor-in-chief of Studia
Liturgica from 1987 to 2005, and is a
former President of the North American Academy of Liturgy and of
the international Societas Liturgica.
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