The Position of the Eucharist in Sunday Worship
by Edwin S. Gorham

[1906] Edwin S. Gorham (New York), 5 1/2 x 8 inches tall purple cloth hardcover, no dust jacket, gilt lettering to spine, xvi, 371 pp. Moderate soiling/staining, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with sun-toning of cloth along the spine and upper edges of both boards. Vertical crease to center of spine. Prior owner name stamp to front pastedown. 1909 prior owner gift inscription and drawing to blank front free-endpaper. Slight foxing to half title page and front and rear prelims. Otherwise, apart from a few creased page tips, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked, solidly bound - of this scarce title.

An Anglican priest and scholar looks at the centrality of the Sunday eucharist to his faith, as contrasted with Catholic and other Protestant denominations.

Contents:
  • Worship in the Apostolic Age
  • Development in the Second and Third Centuries
  • Testimony of Early Writers
  • The Period of the Great Councils and Settlement of Doctrine
  • Worship in England: From 597 AD to 1066 AD
  • Worship of the Middle Ages: From the Coming of the Normans to the Reformation
  • Change of Worship at the Reformation
  • Worship Under the Elizabethan Settlement
  • Disturbance of the Settlement
  • Illustrations of the Period of Transition
  • Degeneration and Recovery
  • The Completion of Recovery
  • Index