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Christianity: Faith, Scripture and Tradition

The Shape of the Liturgy

by Gregory Dix

An influential and widely read study of the development of the Eucharist by an Anglican Benedictine monk. Dix argued that the early liturgy followed a basic four-action shape, an idea that shaped twentieth-century liturgical reform.

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