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Through Their Own Eyes book. Robert Taft, the leading scholar of Byzantine Liturgy, presents in vivid detail the actual experience of the Byzantine Church's liturgy throughout the centuries

Through Their Own Eyes book. Robert Taft, the leading scholar of Byzantine Liturgy, presents in vivid detail the actual experience of the Byzantine Church's liturgy throughout the centuries.

Through Their Own Eyes book.

5Robert F. Taft, Through Their Own Eyes: Liturgy as the Byzantines Saw It (Berkeley: InterOrthodox Press, 2006) 3. This may have been the case at Abila.

This may have been the case at Abila. 35Wilkinson, Egerm’s Travels, 148. 36Taft, Through Their Own Eyes, 30. 37Baldovin, Urban Character of Christian Worship 153.

Through their own eyes. Introduction: liturgy and the appeal to the past

Through their own eyes. liturgy as the Byzantines saw it. by Robert F. Taft. Introduction: liturgy and the appeal to the past. Includes bibliographical references.

On the other hand, the Byzantine theologians themselves did not conceive of their own religious tradition as being . The author can certainly understand the critics who, in expressing their views about the book, have reflected one or the other of these mutually exclusive interpretations.

On the other hand, the Byzantine theologians themselves did not conceive of their own religious tradition as being culturally or doctrinally limited. They used Scripture and the early Christian Fathers as a constant reference, and, at the same time, claimed to be the spokesmen of true Christian doctrine, as distinct from the non-Chalcedonian East and the Latin West.

Second, the book gives broad strokes to the buildings used and how they changed with the liturgical changes.

The Byzantine Rite: A Short History (American Essays in Liturgy) Paperback – December 1, 1992. by Robert Taft SJ (Author). Much has been written regarding the western liturgy; the same cannot be said of the Byzantine liturgy. Father Taft contributes to a remedy of that shortfall through this work. Second, the book gives broad strokes to the buildings used and how they changed with the liturgical changes. Even the art work inside the churches changed over time, becoming more focused on the images of Saints, and less focused on the play of light along the stone of the building.

See the discussion of taxis in Byzantine worship in R. F. Ta. rough eir Own Eyes: Liturgy as the Byzantines Saw it. InterOrthodox Press, 2006, esp. pp. 133. ⁶Ibid.

e process of codication begins in earnest with the victory over Iconoclasm in 843 and achieves its height in the nal years of the Byzantine Empire. is process goes hand in hand with the synthesis of liturgical practices and rites. See the discussion of taxis in Byzantine worship in R.

It is in the ‘other world’ of the Divine Liturgy that we are supremely enabled to see Christ

It is in the ‘other world’ of the Divine Liturgy that we are supremely enabled to see Christ. So that their beauty and arrangement might not be forgotten and might be shown to those below, he was counseled not to represent these things in mere writing but to imitate in material construction that immaterial creation, employing the most splendid and radiant materials found on earth.

55 Baldovin, . The Urban Character of Christian Worship. The Origins, Development, and Meaning ofSta-tional Liturgy (Rome 1987) 268 ; Taft, . Through their own eyes: liturgy as the Byzantines saw it (Berkeley 2005) 41-4. 56 See Syntagma, II, 643: είτουν σατανικων άσμάτων, κιθαρών τε, καί πορνικών λυγισμάτων. 57 McKinnon, . ‘The meaning of the Patristic polemic against musical instruments’, Current Musicology 1 (1965) 70.