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Celebration of a Festschrift honoringBryan D. SpinksGoddard Professor of Liturgical Studies and Pastoral Theology March 2, 2010 | 5:15 pm Yale divinity school Common Room, 409 Prospect St., New Haven |
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The Yale Institute of Sacred Music, with Melanie Ross (MAR '04) and Simon Jones, is hosting a reception to honor Bryan Spinks on the recent publication of his Festschrift The Serious Business of Worship: Essays in Honor of Bryan D. Spinks (Continuum, 2010). Bryan is a graduate of St. Chad’s College of Durham University in England. Since March 2nd marks the commemoration of the Feast of St Chad, the date of our gathering especially fitting.
Prior to coming to Yale in 1998, Bryan served as the chaplain of Churchill College, Cambridge for seventeen years, participated in the Church of England Liturgical Commission, and was involved in the compilation of Common Worship (2000). A renowned liturgical scholar, Bryan’s work has shaped conversations on the origins of eucharistic prayer, theologies of initiation, worship during the English Reformation, and liturgical renewal in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His record of publications includes approximately fifteen books, six contributing editorships, forty book chapters, and sixty journal articles.
****** Praise for The Serious Business of Worship: “Bryan Spinks has made brilliant and significant contributions to a vast range of subjects in liturgical history and theology. This excellent collection, ranging from early Eastern liturgies, via Reformation studies, to the tensions and challenges of liturgical practice today, is a fine tribute to an exceptional scholar and thinker, who deserves every honour from both the academy and the Church.” – The Rt Revd Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury "This splendid collection of essays honors Yale University’s Professor Bryan D. Spinks, whose scholarly contributions have ranged across a broad spectrum in the field of liturgical studies, from early Christian Eucharistic practice (the place of the “Sanctus” in Eucharistic prayers) to studies of Reformation and post-Reformation worship (baptismal doctrine and liturgical reform in the Church of Scotland). Skilfully edited by Melanie C. Ross and Simon Jones, The Serious Business of Worship offers essays by some of the world’s leading liturgical scholars, including Father Robert Taft, S.J. (on John Chrysostom’s preaching), Bishop Kenneth Stevenson (on a transfiguration sermon of Peter the Venerable), Canon Paul Bradshaw (on varieties of early Christian baptismal anointing), and The Reverend Maxwell Johnson (on the issue of normativity in contemporary Lutheran liturgical practice). No college or university library–and no serious student of Christian worship–will want to be without this important collection. It offers a superb snapshot of where modern liturgical research is headed, and its ecumenical range witnesses to the ongoing search for unity of faith and worship among Christians today. Finally, readers should not overlook Melanie Ross’s keenly focused assessment of Spinks’s scholarship in her entertaining essay, “An Octopus in a Matchbox.” The Serious Business of Worship – and the scholar it honors – will richly repay careful reading and study." - Nathan D. Mitchell, Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA
“What a joy to see the study of liturgy and with it the church’s life of worship, taken with such seriousness. The breadth of the essays gathered in this Festschrift, and the scholarly commitments displayed here, witness to the vibrancy of this field of inquiry. Here is liturgical studies at its best – deeply engaged with historical questions, theological convictions, and contemporary practices.” – Teresa Berger, Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School
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