The historical study of Christian worship demonstrates that each generation of believers has refashioned the practices of the past to express its own faith. This is the lesson of Worship: Reforming Tradition. An outstanding example of liturgical research at its best and written by a scholar of international renown, this volume is a clear, meticulously documented, and honest assessment of selected topics in liturgical history and practice. It presents the latest findings of an historian whose studies have dramatically altered our understanding of the church's liturgical past. Both the specialist and nonspecialist will profit from the author's scholarship.