The Byzantine Liturgy : Symbolic Structure and Faith Expression

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Foreword ix Preface xiii Introduction: The Byzantine Liturgy as a Witness to Faith Today xvii Sources xxiii Part One The Byzantine Liturgy: The Development of Its Symbolic Form 1 CHAPTER ONE: THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE FATHERS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BYZANTINE LITURGY 3 A. Origin and Authenticity of the Byzantine Anaphora Texts 4 1. St. Basil and the Anaphora of Basil 4 2. St. John Chrysostom and the Chrysostom Anaphora 8 B. The Place of the Byzantine Anaphora in the History of Dogma 10 1. Christology and the Anamnesis 10 2. Pneumatology and the Epiclesis 12 C. The Sacramental Reality of the Anaphora Within the Overall Symbolic Form of the Liturgy 14 1. The Mystery Character of the Liturgy According to John Chrysostom 15 2. The Image Character of the Liturgy According to Theodore of Mopsuestia 17 CHAPTER TWO: THE LITURGY OF CONSTANTINOPLE IN THE AGE OF THE MONOPHYSITE CONTROVERSY 21 A. The Trisagion and the Solemnization of the Bishop's Entrance 22 B. The Spiritual Meaning of Liturgical Forms According to Dionysius the Areopagite 25 CHAPTER THREE: THE LITURGY OF THE JUSTINIAN AGE AND ITS INTERPRETATION BY MAXIMUS THE CONFESSOR 29 A. Justinian's Church of Hagia Sophia 32 B. The Liturgy in the Age of Justinian 35 1. The Great Entrance and the Interpretative Chants Accompanying It 35 2. The Zeon 39 C. The Mystagogy of Maximus the Confessor 43 CHAPTER FOUR: LITURGY AND IMAGE IN THE AGE OF ICONOCLASM 50 A. The Middle Byzantine System of Church Decoration and Its Liturgical Function 51 1. Church Decoration as Proclamation according to the Discourse against Constantine "Caballinus" 51 2. The Decoration of the New Church as a Rendering Present of Christ, the Angels, and the Saints 56 B. The Liturgy as Representational 62 1. Iconographie and Ritual Proclamation of Christ 63 2. The Prothesis 64 C. The Liturgical Commentary of Patriarch Germanus 67 CHAPTER FIVE: THE COMPLETE LITURGICAL DEPICTION OF THE MYSTERY OF CHRIST IN THE AGE OF THE COMNENI 77 A. The Church Building as Place of the Mystery-Presence 77 B. The Explanation of the Liturgy as a Summation of the Saving Work of Christ 80 1. A Liturgical Commentary in Pictures 80 2. The Liturgical Commentary of Nicholas and Theodore of Andida 89 C. The Prothesis Rite and the Star of Bethlehem 98 CHAPTER SIX: LITURGICAL STANDARDIZATION AND REFLECTION IN THE AGE OF THE PALEOGUES 100 A. The Liturgical Themes of Late Byzantine Iconography as Interpretations of the Liturgy 101 1. The Communion of the Apostles 103 2. The Liturgy of the Church Fathers 105 3. The Heavenly Liturgy 111 B. The Liturgical Commentaries 114 1. Symeon of Thessalonica: The Collection and Canonization of Symbolic Interpretative Motifs 114 2. Nicholas Cabasilas: Concentration on the Essential 124 CONCLUSION 133 Part Two New Contributions 137 CHAPTER ONE: THE BYZANTINE RITE AND ITS DEVELOPMENT INTO THE RITE OF THE ENTIRE ORTHODOX WORLD 139 CHAPTER TWO: THE BYZANTINE ANAPHORA AS DEVELOPMENT OF THE EARLY CHRISTIAN EUCHARISTIC PRAYER 142 A. The Preservation and Development of the Earliest Structure: Thanksgiving and Expression of Faith 142 B. The Originality of the Anaphora of Basil and the Theology of the Saint 146 C. St. John Chrysostom and the Chrysostom Anaphora 150 D. The New Emphases in the Anaphora of Chrysostom as a Mirror of Liturgical Development 154 1. The Early Christian Ethos and the New Outlook on Symbols 154 2. Development of the Anamnesis and New Emphases in Understanding the Feast of Easter 156 3. Possibilities and Limits of Representational Symbolism 158 CHAPTER THREE: THE ENTRANCE OF THE BISHOP AND ITS LITURGICAL FORM 160 A. The Trisagion Hymn 161 B. The Hymn 'Only-Begotten Son" 163 CHAPTER FOUR: THE GREAT ENTRANCE: THE TRANSFER OF GIFTS AND ITS RELATION TO THE OFFERING OF THE FAITHFUL AND THE OFFERTORY PROCESSION 164 A. The Cherubic Hymn 164 B. The Great Entrance and the Offering of the Gifts 166 C. The "Offering Prayer" After the Great Entrance 170 CHAPTER FIVE: THE FIRST BYZANTINE EXPLANATION OF THE LITURGY: A SYNTHESIS OF DOGMATIC, LITURGICAL, AND MYSTICAL TRADITION 173 CHAPTER SIX: DEVELOPMENT OF THE LITURGY TO ITS COMPLETE FORM AFTER THE AGE OF ICONOCLASM 178 A. Prothesis: A Symbolic Representation of the Mystery of Christ 180 B. The Ways of Liturgical Explanation and the Understanding of Images in the Seventh Ecumenical Council 184 1. The Historia Ekklesiastikê of Patriarch Germanus (d. 733): Saving Event as Visual Representation 184 2. The Protheoria of Nicholas and Theodore of Andida 188 3. The Influences of Representational Thinking on the Theology of Proclamation and Sacramental Theology: The Liturgical Commentary of Nicholas Cabasilas 190 PROSPECT: NICHOLAS CABASILAS AS WITNESS TO THE ECUMENICAL FAITH 193 GLOSSARY 197 ABBREVIATIONS 199 NOTES 205 BIBLIOGRAPHY 251 APPENDIXES 269 INDEX 273