Frank Edward Brightman

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Frank Edward Brightman (born June 18, 1856 in Bristol , † March 31, 1932 in Oxford ) was an Anglican priest and liturgical scholar .

Brightman studied at Oxford University , was ordained a deacon in 1884, and from 1902 he was prebendary (a kind of canon) of Lincoln Cathedral .

From 1884 he worked in Oxford, 1884-1903 as librarian of Pusey House, from 1902 as a fellow of Magdalen College. From 1904 to 1932 he was co-editor of the Journal of Theological Studies . In 1926 he was elected a member ( Fellow ) of the British Academy .

Brightman was one of the leading liturgical historians of his time. His Eastern Liturgies form a work “which in terms of richness cannot be compared with anything from the last centuries in the field of liturgical source research”.

He served the Anglican Archbishops Temple of Canterbury and Maclagan of York as a liturgical historical advisor for their answer Saepius Officio of February 19, 1897 to the annulment of the Anglican ordinations by Pope Leo XIII. with his letter Apostolicae curae (details: exchange of letters on the validity of the Anglican consecrations 1896/1897 ).

Works

  • Liturgies Eastern and Western , Vol. 1: Eastern Liturgies, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1896 (no longer published). Several reprints, including 2004: ISBN 1-59333-118-5 ; First print on the Internet
  • The English Rite: being a synopsis of the sources and revisions of the Book of Common Prayer , 2 vols. Oxford 1915
  • Terms of communion and the ministration of the sacraments in early times . In: HB Swete (ed.): Essays on the early history of the church. 2nd ed. London 1921, 313–408.
  • The New Prayer Book examined . In: The Church Quarterly Review 104 (1927) 219-252.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 9, 2020 .
  2. ^ Wilhelm Weißbrodt : An Egyptian Christian tombstone with an inscription from the Greek liturgy . In: Pastoral Journal for the Diocese of Warmia 37 (1905) 119
personal data
SURNAME Brightman, Frank Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Anglican priest and liturgical scholar
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Bristol
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1932
Place of death Oxford