medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
In a message dated 14/4/2003 14:20:08, [log in to unmask] writes:
<< Others can correct me, but I don't think it played a major role in
Western liturgical development--the West had its own liturgical traditions
and in this sense I think my initial comments about not giving it too much
authority as a general liturgical source can stand. >>
Personally, I think the Didache was known to Justin Martyr (c. 150), who is
in turn - allowing certain assumptions which others would regard as
anachronistic - the earliest witness to the Roman rite. Among the liturgical
practices to which the Didache bears witness are the use of the doxology to
the Lord's Prayer ('For thine is the kingdom...'). Unless I am ill informed,
this is not found in medieval Latin liturgy and was not introduced into the
Roman rite until after Vatican II. Protestant Reformers included it into
their liturgies on the authority of Matthew's Gospel, where it had been
introduced into that Gospel's version of the Lord's prayer but is not part of
the earliest text. It is not impossible that the author or compiler of the
Didache wrote this doxology (although it is based on an OT passage, 1 Chron
29:11). The Didache does not however refer to the liturgical use of the
Lord's Prayer, which is not attested until the fourth century (Cyril of
Jerusalem and Ambrose of Milan).
Graham Gould
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