Sacred Games: A History of Christian Worship From: The Catholic Historical Review | Date: October 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright Catholic University of America Press Oct 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Sacred Games: A History of Christian Worship. By Bernhard Lang. (New Haven:Yale University Press. 1997. Pp. xiii, 527. $40.00.)

This is no ordinary history of Christian worship. Lang, professor of religion at the University of Paderborn, is not so much a liturgical historian as an historian of religions. His background affords him a fresh view of the history of Christian worship, unencumbered by the debates characteristic of the profession.

Lang divides the subject into six "games" or basic components in which he finds "the essential meaning of Christian worship" (p. xi). These games are: ...

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