Frequently Asked Questions - Print Resources

Below are a few recommended print resources for learning more about the Revised Common Lectionary and the Church Year:

• Beckwith, Roger T. Calendar and Chronology, Jewish and Christian: Biblical, Intertestamental and Patristic Studies. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1996.
• Boling, Ruth L. A Children’s Guide to Worship. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1997.
• Boling, Ruth L. Come Worship with Me: A Journey Through the Church Year. Louisville, KY: Geneva Press, 2001.
• The Book of Common Prayer According to the Use of the Episcopal Church. New York: Church Publishing Incorporated, 1979.
• Book of Worship: United Church of Christ. New York: United Church of Christ, 1986.
• Book of Common Worship. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1993.
• Bradshaw, Paul. The New Westminster Dictionary of Liturgy and Worship. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2003.
• Cartwright, Colbert S., and O. I. Cricket Harrison, eds. Chalice Worship. St. Louis, MO, 1997.
• Consultation on Common Texts. The Revised Common Lectionary. Nashville: Abingdon, 1992.
• Dawn, Marva J. Reaching Out Without Dumbing Down: A Theology of Worship for the Turn of the Century Church. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995.
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada. Evangelical Lutheran Worship. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Fortress, 2006.
• Hickman, Hoyt L., Don E. Saliers, Laurence Hull Stookey, and James F. White. The New Handbook of the Christian Year. Nashville: Abingdon, 1992.
• Johnson, Maxwell E. Between Memory and Hope: Readings on the Liturgical Year. Collegeville, Minn: Liturgical Press, 2000.
• Jones, Cheslyn, Geoffrey Wainwright, and Edward Yarnold. The Study of Liturgy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. (Section VI, The Calendar, pages 455-484)
• Lutheran Book of Worship. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Publishing House, 1978.
• Senn, Frank C. Christian Liturgy: Catholic and Evangelical. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 1997.
• Stookey, Laurence Hull. Calendar: Christ’s Time for the Church. Nashville: Abingdon, 1996.
• Talley, Thomas J. The Origins of the Liturgical Year. New York: Pueblo Pub. Co, 1986.
• The United Methodist Book of Worship. Nashville, TN: United Methodist Publishing House, 1992.
• Webber, Robert. Ancient-Future Time: Forming Spirituality Through the Christian Year. Grand Rapids, Mich: Baker Books, 2004.
• West, Fritz. Scripture and Memory: The Ecumenical Hermeneutic of the Three-Year Lectionaries. Collegeville, Minn: Liturgical Press, 1997.
  
• White, James F. Introduction to Christian Worship. 2d ed. Nashville: Abingdon, 1990.


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