Paul F. Bradshaw

Paul F. Bradshaw is Professor of Liturgy at the University of Notre Dame.

A specialist in the early history of Christian liturgy, he has taught at the University of Notre Dame since 1985. He was previously Director of Studies at Chichester Theological College, Course Director in the St Albans Diocese Ministerial Training Scheme, and the Vice-Principal of Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford. He has written or edited over twenty books and has contributed more than ninety articles or essays. He has collaborated with Lawrence A. Hoffman on several essay collections about the evolution of worship in Christian and Jewish communities in North America.

For eighteen years Bradshaw was chief editor of the international journal, Studia Liturgica, and he is also a former President both of Societas Liturgica and of the North American Academy of Liturgy. His book, The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship, has become a standard textbook. It has gone through two editions, and has been translated into French and Italian, with Japanese and Russian translations forthcoming.

Works Authored

• The Anglican Ordinal: Its history and development from the Reformation to the present day (Alcuin Club Collections 53, London: SPCK 1971)
• Daily Prayer in the Early Church: A Study of the Origin and Early Development of the Divine Office (Alcuin Club Collections 63, London: SPCK 1981; New York: OUP 1982; reprinted Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock 2008)
• Ordination Rites of the Ancient Churches of East and West (New York: Pueblo 1990)
• The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship: Sources and Methods for the Study of Early Liturgy (London: SPCK/New York: OUP 1992, 2002)
• Early Christian Worship: A Basic Introduction to Ideas and Practice (London: SPCK/Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 1996, 2010)
• The Apostolic Tradition: A Commentary (with Maxwell E. Johnson and L. Edward Phillips; Hermeneia Commentary Series; Minneapolis: Fortress Press 2002)
• Eucharistic Origins (Alcuin Club Collections 80, London: SPCK/New York: OUP 2004)
• Reconstructing Early Christian Worship (London: SPCK, 2009/Collegeville: The Liturgical Press 2010)
• The Origins of Feasts, Fasts and Seasons in Early Christianity (with Maxwell E. Johnson; Alcuin Club Collections 86, London: SPCK/Collegeville: The Liturgical Press 2011)

Works Edited

• The Making of Jewish and Christian Worship (Notre Dame Press, 1991)
• The Changing Face of Jewish and Christian Worship in North America (Notre Dame Press, 1992).
• Life-Cycles in Jewish and Christian Worship (Notre Dame Press, 1996).
• Passover and Easter: Origin and History to Modern Times (Notre Dame Press, 1999).
• Passover and Easter: The Symbolic Structuring of Sacred Seasons (Notre Dame Press 1999).
• The New Westminster Dictionary of Liturgy and Worship (Louisville: Westminster Press 2002).
• Foundations in Ritual Studies: A Reader for Students of Christian Worship (London: SPCK/Grand Rapids: Baker Academic 2007).

External links

• University of Notre Dame faculty information