Eucharist : Theology and Spirituality of the Eucharistic Prayer

Eucharist is a detailed history of the Christian Eucharistic formularies. Bouyer gives a thorough analysis of the Jewish meal prayers, the berakoth, to which he traces the origins of the eucharistic rite, and ends with the recent addition of new eucharistic prayers to the Roman rite. He also includes the history of the various forms of the early Christian liturgies, of the Byzantine, Gallican, and Mozarabic Eucharists, of the changes introduced during the Reformation, and of developments in the Anglican, Lutheran, and Reformed traditions. F oreword I. Theologies on the E ucharist and Theology of the E ucharist 1 II. J ewish Liturgy and Christian L iturgy 15 III. The Word of God and the B erakah 29 The Word of God and the knowledge of God 30 The berakoth, the response to the Word 40 IV. The J ewish Berakoth 50 The transmission of the traditional formulas 50 The short formularies 55 The berakoth preceding the Shemah: the Qedushah 58 The Tefillah of the Shemoneh Esreh 70 The meal berakoth 78 The different structures of the Christian Eucharist 88 V. F rom the J ewish Berakah to the Christian E ucharist 91 Jesus’ use of the berakah 92 The meal berakoth and the institution of the Eucharist 97 The meaning of the “Memorial” 103 The Jewish berakoth and the prayer of the first Christians 106 The first eucharistie liturgies: the Didache 115 The Apostolic Constitutions 119 VI. T he P atristic E ucharist and the Vestiges of the P rimitive E ucharist 136 The constitution of the traditional formularies of the eucharist 136 The West Syrian and Gallican-Mozarabic types 143 The Alexandrian and the Roman types 144 The survival of a more ancient type in the East Syrian tradition: Addai and Mari 146 Resurgence of the archaic type in the Apostolic Tradition of St. Hippolytus 158 The transformation of the anamnesis and the birth of the epiclesis 182 Other evidences of the same type 184 VII. T he Alexandrian and R oman E ucharists 187 Is St. Hippolytus a witness of the origins of the Roman liturgy? 188 The Alexandrian liturgy and the presence of the intercessions in the first part of the eucharist 192 The Der Balizeh anaphora and the Andrieu-Collomp papyrus: the anaphora of Serapion 200 Anamnesis and epiclesis in the Egyptian liturgy 209 The kinship between the Egyptian and Roman eucharists and the primitive form of their epicleses 214 The structure of the Roman canon and its explanation 227 VIII. T he W est Syrian L iturgy: the Apostolic Constitutions and the L iturgy of Saint J ames 244 The late character of the West Syrian eucharist and the factors in its formation 245 The structure and the sources of the eucharist of the Apostolic Constitutions 250 The final synthesis of the eucharist of St. James 268 IX. T he Classical F orm of the Byzantine E ucharist 281 The Antiochian liturgy of. the Twelve Apostles 282 From the liturgy of the Twelve Apostles to the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom 286 The liturgy of St. Basil, its composition and the different stages of its evolution 290 Syrian survival in the long form of Addai and Mari 304 The East Syrian Survival of Intermediary types 307 Genealogy and genesis of the epiclesis 310 X . The Gallican and Mozarabic E ucharist 315 The Gallican and Mozarabic eucharist and its kinship with the West Syrian type 316 From improvisation to imposed formularies : the problem of the liturgical year 329 The oratio fidelium and the intercessions of the Canon 335 XI. The Middle Ages: D evelopment and D eformation 338 The multiplication of the late formularies and their deformation 338 The eucharist of Nestorius: scholastic theology and biblical overlay 342 The Armenian eucharist: fidelity to tradition in new developments 350 Late Syrian anaphoras and the Ethiopian anaphoras 357 Preface, Communicantes and Hanc igitur in the sacramentaries 360 The silent canon and the accompanying false developments 366 XII. Modern T imes: D ecomposition and R eformation 380 The eucharist buried under untraditional formularies and interpretations 381 Luther’s Formula Missae and Deutsche Messe, the last product of medieval deviation 384 The un-eucharistic eucharist of the Reformers: Zwingli, Oecolampadius, Farei and Calvin 391 Survivals and first attempts at restoration among the Lutherans; the Swedish liturgy from Olaus Petri to John III 396 Cranmer and the Anglican eucharist 407 The first rediscovery of tradition by the English Calvinists 419 The restoration of the Anglican eucharist in Scotland and with the Non-Juror's 424 The return to tradition with the French reformers: from Osterwald to Taizé 429 The eucharist of the Church of South India 436 The new eucharistie liturgy of the American Lutheran Church 439 X I I I . The Catholic E ucharist renewed 443 The Twentieth Century 446 Conclusion 462 B iblical Index 475 Index of rabbinical texts 477 Index of the Synagogue liturgy 477 Index of ancient Christian writers 478 Index of Christian liturgies 480 Index of modern authors 482