Paul F. Bradshaw

Paul Frederick Bradshaw, FRHistS (born 9 August 1945) is a British Anglican priest, theologian, historian of liturgy, and academic. In addition to parish ministry, he taught at Chichester Theological College and Ripon College Cuddesdon (both Anglican theological colleges). From 1985 to 2013, he was Professor of Liturgy at the University of Notre Dame in the United States.

Early life and education Bradshaw was born on 9 August 1945 in Preston, Lancashire, England. He studied theology at Clare College, Cambridge. From 1966 to 1967, he taught at Wandsworth School in London;

In 1967, Bradshaw entered Westcott House, Cambridge, an Anglican theological college in the Liberal Anglo-Catholic tradition. While training for ordination at Westcott House, he also undertook postgraduate research at King's College London. From 1969 to 1971, he served his curacy at St John the Baptist, West Wickham, then in the Diocese of Canterbury. From 1971 to 1973, he served a further curacy in the Parish of St Martin and St Paul in the City of Canterbury. He was a member of the Church of England Liturgical Commission from 1981 to 1985 and 2001 to 2010. He was President of the Societas Liturgica from 1993 to 1995, In 2008, he was awarded the Berakah Award by the North American Academy of Liturgy.

Works Bradshaw' book, The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship, has had two editions (1992 and 2002), and has become a popular textbook for those studying early Christian worship. It has been translated into French, Italian, Japanese and Russian.

Works authored The Anglican Ordinal: Its history and development from the Reformation to the present day (Alcuin Club Collections 53, London: SPCK 1971) Daily Prayer in the Early Church: A Study of the Origin and Early Development of the Divine Office (Alcuin Club Collections 63, London: SPCK 1981; New York: OUP 1982; reprinted Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock 2008) Ordination Rites of the Ancient Churches of East and West (New York: Pueblo 1990) The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship: Sources and Methods for the Study of Early Liturgy (London: SPCK/New York: OUP 1992, 2002) Early Christian Worship: A Basic Introduction to Ideas and Practice (London: SPCK/Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 1996, 2010) The Apostolic Tradition: A Commentary (with Maxwell E. Johnson and L. Edward Phillips; Hermeneia Commentary Series; Minneapolis: Fortress Press 2002) Eucharistic Origins (Alcuin Club Collections 80, London: SPCK/New York: OUP 2004) Reconstructing Early Christian Worship (London: SPCK, 2009/Collegeville: The Liturgical Press 2010) The Origins of Feasts, Fasts and Seasons in Early Christianity (with Maxwell E. Johnson; Alcuin Club Collections 86, London: SPCK/Collegeville: The Liturgical Press 2011) The Eucharistic Liturgies: Their Evolution and Interpretation (with Maxwell E. Johnson; Alcuin Club Collections 87, London: SPCK 2012/Collegeville: The Liturgical Press 2012)

Works edited The Making of Jewish and Christian Worship (Notre Dame Press, 1991) The Changing Face of Jewish and Christian Worship in North America (Notre Dame Press, 1992). Life-Cycles in Jewish and Christian Worship (Notre Dame Press, 1996). Passover and Easter: Origin and History to Modern Times (Notre Dame Press, 1999). Passover and Easter: The Symbolic Structuring of Sacred Seasons (Notre Dame Press 1999). The New Westminster Dictionary of Liturgy and Worship (Louisville: Westminster Press 2002). Foundations in Ritual Studies: A Reader for Students of Christian Worship (London: SPCK/Grand Rapids: Baker Academic 2007).