The T&T Clark Companion to Liturgy
Edited by Alcuin Reid, T&T Clark, £130
The T&T Clark Companion to Liturgy has been launched into the rather choppy waters of contemporary liturgical studies. It comprises 22 articles of generous length by an international assembly of scholars, and offers a comprehensive overview of current liturgical issues.
Reid’s introduction advocates reading the book with critical faculties engaged, and the volume is itself in many ways a critique of the liturgical status quo, quite apart from being a resource of liturgical information. It sits at the “reform of the reform” end of the spectrum, though it gives a largely positive view of the Extraordinary Form of the Mass.
