Frank Edward Brightman

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Name Frank Brightman
Books Liturgies, Eastern and Western, Being the Texts Original Or Translated of the Principal Liturgies of the Church: Vol. 1: Eastern Liturgies Volume 1 - Scholar's Choice Edition

Frank Edward Brightman (1856–1932) was an English scholar and liturgist. He was a librarian of Pusey House, Oxford, from 1884 to 1903 and from 1902 until his death a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. He was a strong High Churchman. From 1904 to 1932 he was editor of the The Journal of Theological Studies.

J. R. R. Tolkien related a story how Brightman said that he once saw a dragon on the Mount of Olives, but that he "never before his death explained what he meant."

Works

Principal works

1896 Liturgies Eastern and Western; Vol. I: Eastern. This was a revised edition of the section on the Eastern churches in C. E. Hammond's 1878 book; it was based on extensive research and visits to monasteries in the East (vol. II was never published). Reprint 2004: ISBN 1-59333-118-5 〈〉 Edition on the WWW

1915 The English Rite: being a synopsis of the sources and revisions of the Book of Common Prayer , 2 vols. Oxford, 1915 (a laborious and valuable edition of the various editions of the Book of Common Prayer).

Selected articles

"Terms of communion and the ministration of the sacraments in early times". In: H. B. Swete (Hg.): Essays on the Early History of the Church. 2nd ed. London, 1921, pp. 313–408.

"The New Prayer Book examined". In: The Church Quarterly Review; 104 (1927) pp. 219–252.

References

Frank Edward Brightman Wikipedia

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