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Book Review: Rites of Ordination: Their History and Theology

Book Review: Rites of Ordination: Their History and Theology ATR/97.1 Book Reviews 133 Rites of Ordination: Their History and Theology. By Paul F. Brad- shaw. A Pueblo Book. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2013. ix + 218 pp. $29.95 (paper). In 1990, Pueblo published Paul Bradshaw’s Ordination Rites of the Ancient Churches of East and West, which became a standard source for students in liturgical studies and whose value continues today. In a sense, Rites of Ordination is a sequel to the earlier work, and the many references to ritual texts published in Ordination Rites will no doubt prompt readers to keep a copy of that earlier book at hand. The subject is, of course, enormous. The author acknowledges in the preface that severe limits were required in order to produce a book of rea- sonable size. This is a particularly demanding expectation for a work which sets out to give a comprehensive survey of a subject which is complex both historically and theologically. The breadth of that comprehensiveness is evi- dent in the sequence of chapters. Although the author affirms at the outset that “Christian ministers are not the direct historical successors of any of the ministries mentioned in the Old Testament,” he demonstrates in his analysis of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anglican Theological Review SAGE

Book Review: Rites of Ordination: Their History and Theology

Weil, Louis
Anglican Theological Review , Volume 97 (1): 1 – Aug 16, 2021
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ATR/97.1 Book Reviews 133 Rites of Ordination: Their History and Theology. By Paul F. Brad- shaw. A Pueblo Book. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2013. ix + 218 pp. $29.95 (paper). In 1990, Pueblo published Paul Bradshaw’s Ordination Rites of the Ancient Churches of East and West, which became a standard source for students in liturgical studies and whose value continues today. In a sense, Rites of Ordination is a sequel to the earlier work, and the many references to ritual texts published in Ordination Rites will no doubt prompt readers to keep a copy of that earlier book at hand. The subject is, of course, enormous. The author acknowledges in the preface that severe limits were required in order to produce a book of rea- sonable size. This is a particularly demanding expectation for a work which sets out to give a comprehensive survey of a subject which is complex both historically and theologically. The breadth of that comprehensiveness is evi- dent in the sequence of chapters. Although the author affirms at the outset that “Christian ministers are not the direct historical successors of any of the ministries mentioned in the Old Testament,” he demonstrates in his analysis of

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