The liturgy of the hours in East and West : the origins of the divine office and its meaning for today

Part I. The foundation of the tradition: Prologue: Christian prayer in the New Testament and its Jewish background

Daily prayer in the preconstantinian church

The Cathedral office in the the fourth-century East

The Egyptian Monastic Office in the Fourth Century

The urban Monastic Office in the East

The Monastic Office in the West: North Africa, Gaul, Ireland, and the Iberian Peninsula

The Monastic hours in Italy

The Cathedral hours in the West

Cathedral vigils

Quaestiones disputatae: the origins of Nocturns, Matins, and Prime

Conclusion: Monastic and Cathedral structures

Part II. The Divine Office in the Christian East: The Armenian Office

The Assyro-Chaldean Office

The West-Syrian and Maronite traditions

the Coptic Office

The Ethiopian Rite

The Byzantine Office

Part III. The liturgy of the Hours in the Western tradition: From liturgy to prayerbook: the Office becomes the Breviary in the West

The Roman Office

The Hours in the churches of the Reformation

Part IV. What it all means:Toward a theology of the liturgy of the Hours

The liturgy of the Hours as the Church's School of Prayer