The new Cambridge paragraph Bible. With the Apocrypha. King James version. By David Norton. Pp. xxxvi+1868. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. £45. 0 521 84386 3; 978 0 521 84386 7 A textual history of the King James Bible. By David Norton. Pp. xii+387 incl. 5 ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. £55. 0 521 77100 5; 978 0 521 77100 9

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The new Cambridge paragraph Bible. With the Apocrypha. King James version. By David Norton. Pp. xxxvi+1868. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. £45. 0 521 84386 3; 978 0 521 84386 7 A textual history of the King James Bible. By David Norton. Pp. xii+387 incl. 5 ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. £55. 0 521 77100 5; 978 0 521 77100 9 This book sets out to be a history of Christian worship with a difference. MartinStringer's field is anthropology and sociology, but, as an undergraduate, he had the opportunity to study liturgy in the theology faculty at Manchester in the days when Kenneth Stevenson and Richard Burton offered a very popular liturgy course at no cost to the university. Stringer is appreciative of the teaching, but notes that the syllabus was heavily text-based -as indeed were most liturgy courses in that era. This study purports to be from a very different perspective, namely, with the recognition that liturgy texts were for worship, and thus performance. After a brief history of the study of liturgy as a discipline, Stringer concludes that today liturgical studies mainly fall into three categories : historical study of rites, such as Stevenson's work on marriage rites ; those of a more social and cultural approach, such as Susan White's study on women in worship ; and those broader studies such as James White's Brief history of Christian worship. Stringer then turns to discuss some postmodern exponents on discourse, such as Foucault and Bourdieu, before setting out his own intention of telling a broader story of worship, with concern beyond the text, looking at performance, devotion and the story of more ordinary members of the congregations. The history is set forth in chapters covering 300 years at a time (though not hard and fast), with kaleidoscopic key themes of discourse, from text and context, to public space, hegemonic worship of empires, cosmological Christianity, devotional discourse, humanistic discourse and globalisation of worship.Like many books of extravagant promise, this book whets the appetite but the author then fails to deliver the goods. To begin with the treatment of the material is extremely uneven, with worship not at all being the main focus of some chapters ; the reader is left wondering whether sacred space, the spread of Christianity or modern mission is the real subject under scrutiny. Second, the work which promises to deliver beyond the text is in fact almost entirely based on secondary sources, some of which are now superseded. There is a certain irony in discussing postmodern writers, only to present a grand narrative based on other grand narratives ; indeed, at times the book reads like a summary of the Grove Liturgical Studies series, with a few liturgical classics thrown in for good measure. Missing are the personal diaries and accounts (other than Egeria) which are absolutely central if the views of the ordinary Christian really are to be reflected. Third, there is too much that is dated and misleading. Few liturgical scholars would attemp...

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