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Writing the History of English Worship: The Achievement of Horton Davies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

James F. White
Affiliation:
professor of Christian worship inSouthern Methodist University, Dallas Texas

Extract

These are days of small books and single volumes. Multi-volume sets are a rare and endangered species. The completion of Horton Davies's five-volume set on Worship and Theology In England is a major achievement in our age, and an uprecedented one in any age. Never before has the worship life of an entire people for four and one-third centuries received such a balanced and careful scrutiny. Over fifteen years of research have borne plentiful and rich fruit. This work of the Henry W. Putnam Professor of Religion at Princeton University marks an achievement in liturgical studies unequalled by living scholars in the English-speaking world.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of Church History 1978

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