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This is a unique work, a well-documented study which examines mysticism from its pagan origins to Paul and the Church Fathers, as it was understood in medieval times, as well as by Jewish and Buddhist initiates. The book presents a sweeping exegesis of historic and foundational literature and myth, but Bouyer makes sense of it and interprets it in the light of Christian history and theology.

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Eucharist is a detailed history of the Christian Eucharistic formularies. Bouyer gives a thorough analysis of the Jewish meal prayers, the berakoth, to which he traces the origins of the eucharistic rite, and ends with the recent addition of new eucharistic prayers to the Roman rite. He also includes the history of the various forms of the early Christian liturgies, of the Byzantine, Gallican, and Mozarabic Eucharists, of the changes introduce...