Bibliography of the Right Reverend Archimandrite Robert F. Taft, SJ Fellow of the British Academy June 2013 i Bibliography of Robert Taft, SJ Copyright © 2013 Robert F. Taft, S.J. Rt. Rev. Archimandrite Robert F. Taft, S.J. Professor Emeritus of Oriental Liturgy Campion Health Center 319 Concord Road Weston, MA 02493-1398, USA Email [email protected] Published by Eastern Christian Publications PO Box 146 Fairfax, Virginia 22038-0146 USA www.ecpubs.com ISBN: 978-1-940219-04-2 ii Contents Biographical Note 1 Abbreviations 7 Other Publications 8 Titles in Russian 8 Chronological List of Publications Publications 1957-1970 9 Publications 1971-1980 11 Publications 1981-1990 15 Publications 1991-2001 28 Publications 2001-2010 50 Publications 2011-2013 81 Publications in Press — June 2013 86 List of Books Books Authored/Co-authored 91 Books Edited/Co-edited 95 Video/Audio Recordings 98 iii Bibliography of Robert Taft, SJ Dedicated to the Ministry of Rt. Rev. Archimandrite Robert F. Taft, SJ On His Fiftieth Anniversary of Priesthood by Eastern Christian Publications Fairfax, Virginia www.ecpubs.com iv Biographical Note Biographical Note Robert F. Taft, S.J., a Catholic priest of the Byzantine-Slavonic rite and member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), was born Jan- uary 9, 1932, in Providence, RI (USA). In 1949 he graduated from LaSalle Academy, Providence, and entered the New Eng- land Province of the Society of Jesus. After receiving an M.A. in philosophy from Boston College in 1956, he was assigned to the Iraqi Mission of the New England Province, where he spent three years (1956-59) teaching at Baghdad College, Baghdad, Iraq, and as Director of the Senior Boarding School (1957-59). In 1959-61 he completed the M.A. in Russian Studies at Ford- ham University, NY, then studied theology at Weston College in Weston, MA (1960-64), receiving the Licentiate and Mas- ter’s degrees in Sacred Theology. He was ordained priest in the Byzantine-Slavonic (Russian) rite in 1963 by Bishop Nicholas T. Elko, Ruthenian Catholic Exarch of Pittsburgh. He did his final year of Jesuit formation (Tertianship) in Drongen, Belgium (1964-65), then continued his studies in Rome at the Pontifi- cal Oriental Institute, Rome, as an alumnus of the “Russicum” or Pontifical Russian College, receiving the doctorate in East- ern Christian Studies with specialization in Oriental Liturgy in 1970, followed in 1971-72 by postdoctoral studies in Oriental Philology at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. In 1970 he was appointed to the faculty of the Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome, where he has served as Professor of Oriental Liturgy from 1970-, Prefect of the Library (1981-85), and Vice- Rector of the Institute (1995-2001). Having reached the statuto- ry age of retirement in 2002, he automatically became Professor Emeritus, though he continued to teach until 2008. In addition, he served as Visiting Professor of Liturgy at the Uni- versity of Notre Dame from 1974 to 2005, where he was Direc- tor of the Graduate Program in Liturgical Studies in 1977-79. 1 Bibliography of Robert Taft, SJ He has served as Editor-in-Chief of Orientalia Christiana Pe- riodica (1972-76), as Associate Editor of Orientalia Christiana Analecta (1981-86) and Studia Liturgica (1980-87), as member of the Editorial Committee for liturgy of Concilium (1975-91), and as Director of Publications at the Pontifical Oriental Insti- tute, Rome (1995-2004) and Editor-in-Chief of the monograph series Orientalia Christiana Analecta (1987-2002). He was co- founder & Editor-in-Chief of Vselena/Oikoumene (Sofia, Bul- garia), an Orthodox-Catholic ecumenical review in Bulgarian, 1992-94; founder and Editor-in-Chief of the series Anaphorae Orientales (1998-); and member of the Editorial Boards of Wor- ship, Christian Orient (Kottayam, India), Xristianskij Vostok (St. Petersburg/Moscow), Bolletino della Badia Greca di Grot- taferrata (Italy), Eastern Churches Journal (Fairfax, VA, USA); member of the Comitato scientifico of Oecumenica Civitas. Rivista del Centro di Documentazione del Movimento Ecumeni- co Italiano—Livorno (Italy), of the International Advisory Board of Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies (Ottawa), and of the Board of Consultors of Eucharistia. International Review for Eucharistic, Ecumenical and Interreligious Research. In addition to serving as Consultor for Liturgy of the Vatican Congregation for the Oriental Churches since 1983, member of several Vatican Commissions, and board member and/or con- sultant of several other academic and ecclesiastical bodies, in the summer of 1992 he was appointed a Member of the Papal Commission that carried out the Apostolic Visitation of the Sy- ro-Malabar Church of India during September 1992. Fr. Taft is a founding member of both the North American Acad- emy of Liturgy (NAAL) and of the Association of Jesuit Litur- gists, and a member of the U.S. National Committee for Byzan- tine Studies, of the Society for Armenian Studies (retired 1999), of the International Societas Liturgica, of which was a member of the Governing Council for ten years (1979-89) and President from 1985-87, and founding President (2005-2006) of the Soci- ety of Oriental Liturgy (SOL). 2 Biographical Note Fr. Taft speaks English, French, Italian, German and Russian, and has taught and/or lectured in Armenia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Russia, Slovakia, Turkey, Ukraine, the USA, and Vatican City. The bibliography of his publications comprises over 800 titles, written in English, French, and Italian, mostly scholarly pub- lications on Eastern Liturgy, including thirty-two books, three of them co-authored, twelve others edited or co-edited in col- laboration with other authors. Several of his writings have been translated into Arabic, Armenian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Malayalam, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, and Ukrainian. His major life’s work is a six-volume monograph series entitlted A History of the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (1975-), the final volume of which is in preparation. In 1987 his book The Liturgy of the Hours in East and West (Collegeville: The Liturgical Press 1986) won the First Place Award of the Catholic Press Associa- tion for the Best Book in Theology in 1986, and has been trans- lated into Italian (1988, 2001) and French (1991). Fr. Taft has received numerous honors and awards, both aca- demic and ecclesiatical. In 1984-85, the summer of 1988, and 1993-94, he was the recipient of a Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship in Byzantine Studies from Harvard University. In 1985, he re- ceived the Berakah Award of the North American Academy of Liturgy for his contribution to liturgical studies. In 1986 and 1988 he was named to the John A. O’Brien Chair in Catholic Theology at the University of Notre Dame as visiting profes- sor for the fall semester. In 1989 he was appointed a member of the Board of Visitors of the School of Religious Studies of the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. On May 25, 1990, The College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts (USA), awarded Fr. Taft an honorary doctorate in recognition of his work. In 1990 Fr. Taft received from The School of Reli- 3 Bibliography of Robert Taft, SJ gious Studies of the Catholic University of America, Washing- ton, D.C., the Johannes Quasten Medal for Excellence in Schol- arship and Leadership in Religious Studies, awarded annually since 1985 “to extern scholars whose excellence in research and leadership is acknowledged in the academic world.” Perestroika and the beginnings of democracy in Russia and else- where soon led to numerous contacts with scholars familiar with Fr. Taft’s works, and in 1994 he was elected an honorary mem- ber of the St. Petersburg (Russia) Society for Byzantine Studies, and in August 2000 he was named member of the Conseil Scien- tifique International du Centre de Recherches Slavo-Byzantines “Ivan Dujchev” at “Saint Clement of Ochrid” University, Sofia, Bulgaria. Fr. Taft was named titular of the “The Sir Daniel and Count- ess Bernardine Murphy Donohue Chair in Eastern Theology at the Pontifical Oriental Institute” for three consecutive academic years, 1995/6, 1996/7, 1997/8. On July 1, 1996, the Trustees of Harvard University named him one of the six Senior Fellows of the prestigious Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies in Washington, D.C. From June 1999-June 2002 he served as Chair of the Board of Senior Fellows, the only priest ever to have held that position. In 1998 he founded and became Editor-in-Chief of the new monograph series Anaphorae Orientales for the publication of critical editions of the eucharistic prayers in all the Oriental Christian languages. On May 19, 1999, the Weston Jesuit School of Theology, Cam- bridge MA, awarded Fr. Taft the Pedro Arrupe Medal for Ex- cellence in Ministry. On December 2, 2000, Fr. Taft received a second doctorate honoris causa from the University of St. Mi- chael’s College at the University of Toronto, Canada. On July 5, 2001, Fr. Taft was elected Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, the highest honor the Academy confers on non-British academics in recognition of scholarly distinction. At 4 Biographical Note the time, Fr. Taft was the first and only US Jesuit in history ever to be so honored. In 2002 he was named the first“Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky Guest Professor” at The Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine, 2002, though ill health prevented him from fulfilling the appointment. On May 13, 2007, he received a third doctorate honoris causa from The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts, Marrimack, NH, and on October 12 that same year he received the 2007 McManus Award of the US Catholic Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions “for his outstanding contributions to pastoral liturgy.” (see http://www.fdlc.org/NationalMeetings/ Hartford/2007-McManusAward.