Sacraments

  Bibliography #6:

   Liturgy, Art & Architecture

 

BIBLIOGRAPHIES
 - New Testament
 - Early Christianity
 - Medieval Christianity
 - The Reformation
 - Spirituality & Mysticism
 - Sacraments
 - 20th-Century Theology

 

 STUDIES OF
 SACRAMENTS

 

#1: Surveys, Intros
#2: Christian Initiation
#3: History of Eucharist
#4: Theology of Eucharist
#5: Other Sacraments
#6: Art & Architecture

 

 compiled by William Harmless, S.J.

Creighton University 

   1. Sacred Music

   2. Christian Art & Architecture

   3. The Liturgical Year

   4. The Liturgy of the Hours

 

 

 1. SACRED MUSIC

 

Lucien Diess, Visions of Liturgy and Music for a New Century, trans. Jane M.A. Burton (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1996) paperback, $26.

Christopher Boyd Brown, Singing the Gospel: Lutheran Hymns and the Success of the Reformation, Harvard Historical Studies (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005) hardcover, $40.  NEW.

Claude Duschesneau & M. Veulthy, Music and Liturgy (Washington, DC: Pastoral Press, 1992).

Edward Foley, Foundations of Christian Music: The Music of Pre-Constantinian Christianity, American Essay in Liturgy (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1996) paperback, $10.

Edward Foley, A Concise Dictionary of Worship Music (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2000) hardcover, $35.

Jan Michael Joncas, From Sacred Song to Ritual Music (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1997). 

Robin A. Leaver and Joyce Ann Zimmerman, Liturgy and Music: Lifetime Learning (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1998).

Mary E. McGann, Exploring Music as Worship and Theology: An Interdisciplinary Method for Studying Liturgical Practice, American Essays in Liturgy (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2002) paperback, $10.

J. McKinnon, ed., Music in Early Christian Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).

Robert Wuthnow, All in Sync: How Music and Art Are Revitalizing American Religion (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003) hardcover, $30.

 

 

 2. CHRISTIAN ART & ARCHITECTURE

 

Robin Margaret Jensen, Understanding Early Christian Art (New York: Routledge, 2000) paperback, $26.  A valuable recent introduction to the world of early Christian art and architecture, written with a fine sensitivity to the underlying theologies at work.

 

J.R. Elsner, Imperial Rome & Christian Triumph; The Art of the Roman Empire AD 100-450 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998) paperback, $16.

Everett Ferguson, ed., Art, Archaeology and Architecture of Early Christianity, Studies in Early Christianity, 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.

Richard Keickhefer, Theology in Stone: Church Architecture from Byzantium to Berkeley (New York:Oxford University Press, 2004) hardcover, $45.

John Lowden, Early Christian and Byzantine Art (London: Phaidon, 1997) paperback, $23.

Neil MacGregor & Erika Langmuir, Seeing Salvation: Images of Christ in Art (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000) hardcover, $35.

Rowland J. Mainstone, Hagia Sophia: Architecture, Structure, and Liturgy in Justinian’s Main Church (London: Thames & Hudson, 2002) paperback, $40.

Marchita B. Mauck, Shaping a House for the Church (Chicago: Liturgical Training Resources, 1990) paperback, $10.

Marchita B. Mauck, Places for Worship: A Guide to Building and Renovating, American Essays in Liturgy (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1995).

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

Peter Murray & Linda Murray, eds., The Oxford Companion to Christian Art and Architecture (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996) paperback, $26.

Albert Rouet, Liturgy and the Arts, trans. Paul Philibert (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1997) paperback, $20.

Jeffrey Chipps Smith, Senuous Worship: The Jesuits and the Art of the Early Catholic Reformation in Germany (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002) hardcover, $50.

L. Michael White, Building God’s House in the Roman World: Architectural Adaptation among Pagans, Jews, and Christians (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1990).

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

 

 

 3. THE LITURGICAL YEAR

 

Adolf Adam, The Liturgical Year (New York: Pueblo, 1981).

Adolf Adam, The Key to Faith: Meditations on the Liturgical Year, trans. Patrick Madigan (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1998) paperback, $20.

John F. Baldovin, “The Liturgical Year: Calendar for a Just Community,” pp. 59-76, in Worship, City, Church and Renewal (Washington, DC: Pastoral Press, 1991) paperback, $15.

Adrien Nocent, “Christian Sunday,” pp. 130-141, in Eugene J. Fisher, ed., The Jewish Roots of Christian Liturgy (New York: Paulist Press, 1990).

Thomas J. Talley, The Origins of the Liturgical Year (New York: Pueblo, 1986 / Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press) paperback, $20.

Thomas J. Talley, “The Origin of Lent at Alexandria,” Studia Patristica 17 (1982) 594-612.

 

 

 4. THE LITURGY OF THE HOURS

 

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).

Margot E. Fassler & Rebecca A. Baltzer, eds., The Divine Office in the Latin Middle Ages: Methodology and Source Studies, Regional Developments, Hagiography (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000) hardcover, $65.

Robert F. Taft, The Liturgy of the Hours in East and West: The Origins of the Divine Office and Its Meaning Today, 2nd rev. ed. (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1986) paperback, $25.

 

 

Revised: December 11, 2006 

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  William Harmless, SJ