At the Origins of Christian Worship: The Context and Character of Earliest Christian Devotion From: Anglican Theological Review | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: McGowan, Andrew | Copyright Anglican Theological Review, Inc. Winter 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

At the Origins of Christian Worship: The Context and Character of Earliest Christian Devotion. By Larry Hurtado. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2000. xi + 138 pp. $16.00 (paper).

Conceptions of worship really can be vastly different, even among its historians. While liturgically-oriented scholars may well focus on the origins of Christian practice, this brief, scholarly, and readable book considers-as its subtitle accurately puts it-the context and charac...