Paul Bradshaw presents the early practice of ordination in both East and West by introducing the reader to the principal primary sources, then outlining the nuclear structure of the ordination ritual containing elements common to the ritual for bishops, presbyters, and deacons, and finally considering the prayers and ceremonies proper to each of the orders.
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Paul Bradshaw presents the early practice of ordination in both East and West by introducing the reader to the principal primary sources, then outlining the nuclear structure of the ordination ritual containing elements common to the ritual for bishops, presbyters, and deacons, and finally considering the prayers and ceremonies proper to each of the orders.
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Bradshaw here collects a good number of the rites used in ordinations in the early church. After providing the historical context and background of the selected rites, Bradshaw then writes a few chapters of commentary on these rites.
The primary source texts make this an invaluable resource for those researching ordination and the office of the ministry from the apostolic church through the early Middle Ages. Looking at the rites themselves is, in many ways, the best way to understand their thought on ordination and the offices into which men were ordained, for these are the words used when doing it, the words addressed to God invoking his work--thus no room for loose talk or flimsy argumentation.
