Bouyer, Louis. Eucharist. South Bend, Ind.: Notre Dame University Press, 1968. The Western authority on holy Communion.

Dix, Dom Gregory. The Shape of the Liturgy. London: Dacre Press, 1970. The classic Western work on how Christian worship developed.

Eusebius. A History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine. Trans. G. A. Williamson. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin, 1981. A fourth-century Christian historian writes about the Church from Pentecost to A.D. 325.

Field, Sister Anne. From Darkness to Light. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Servant, 1978. How one person became a Christian in the ancient church.

Florovsky, Georges. Bible, Church, and Tradition. Belmont, Mass.: Nordlund, 1972. Brilliant analysis of these three vehicles of faith.

Guardini, Romano. The Church and the Catholic, and the Spirit of the Liturgy. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1953. Virtually indispensable for an understanding of the genius of the liturgy.

Howard, Thomas. The Liturgy Explained. Wilton, Ct.: Morehouse-Barlow, 1981. An introduction to the liturgy written especially for newcomers.

Jungman, Josef A., S.J. The Early Liturgy to the Time of Gregory the Great. London: Darton, Longman, & Todd, 1976. Historical path of Christian worship.

Paul, Archbishop of Finland. The Faith We Hold. Trans. Marita Nykanen and Esther Williams. Crestwood, N. Y.: St. Vladimir Press, 1980. A well-written basic primer on the historic faith.

Schmemann, Alexander. For the Life of the World. Crestwood, N.Y.: St. Vladimir Press, 1973. A lucid and compelling explanation, for “outsiders,” of the sacramentalist point of view.

Sparks, Jack, ed. The Apostolic Fathers. Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, 1978. The earliest fathers of the church, immediately after the Apostles. Excellent notes.

Ware, Timothy. The Orthodox Church. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin, 1967, A moving history of the Eastern Church.

Webber, Robert. Worship: Old and New. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1982. Popular written history of worship.