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Title: Worship in Transition: The Liturgical Movement in the Twentieth Century by John R. K. Fenwick, Bryan D. Spinks ISBN: 0-8264-0827-3 Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)

Rating: 3
Summary: Not for Beginners!
Comment: If I take this pile of bibles and increase it's number by 25%, how many bibles will I have afterwards? What's that? You say you need to know how many bibles I started out with? That if you don't know the starting point, the meaning of the change is lost on you?

That's my main problem with this book which was set as part of the bibliography for the "Liturgy & Worship" module of my theology BA. The book is filled with historical and liturgical references that one has to have had prior knowledge of in order to read it profitably. As an example, the section on the Eucharist makes reference to the fact that the Roman Eucharistic Prayer (EP) number 2 and EPs 1, 2 and 3 of the ASB derive from the same historic source. Absent a library where one can access current and historic worship books and liturgies of all the major liturical traditions, this sort of passing reference makes the book quite hard reading.

The book traces the source of the liturgical movement back to the 16th century and rushes through references of liturgicists over four centuries without actually explaining their positions in one coherent manner such that the reader can say, for example "Gueranger had these views."

I have no way of knowing whether this book would be profitable for experts or not. In my opinion, it should not have been included on the bibliography of an introductory liturgical module without some prior background having been given.