On the Apostolic Tradition

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Apostolic Tradition, identified as the work of Hippolytus, a Christian leader from third-century Rome, provides liturgical information of great antiquity massively influential in liturgical study and liturgical reform. This translation and commentary clarifies many obscurities in the ancient text - from authorship to understanding the wider social world of third-century Rome - and is the first adequate English version since 1937. Despite it being a significant piece of research, it is written in a style accessible to readers without special knowledge or understanding of ancient languages. "Stewart-Sykes has produced a timely and highly significant contribution (that)... Unravel(s) the complexities...surrounding the foundational Western liturgy, and produce(s) a very compelling solution to the Hippolytan problem." -Allen Brent, St Edmonds College, Cambridge. Other books on Patristics published by St Vladimir's Seminary Press include: On God and Christ: The Five Theological Orations and Two Letters to Cledonius (Gregory of Nazianzus), translated by Frederick Williams and Lionel Wickham; Hymns on Paradise (St Ephrem the Syrian), introduction and translation by Sebastian Brock; and On the Apostolic Preaching (St Irenaeus of Lyons), introduction and translation by John Behr.