id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 1c18df67p21 Anne Catherine McGowan In Search of the Spirit: The Epiclesis in Early Eucharistic Praying and Contemporary Western Liturgical Reforms 2011 .txt text/plain 292 5 0 This study explores the theological and textual connections among ancient and modern epicleses, primarily through analysis of a selection of epicletic texts in contemporary Western eucharistic prayers and the theological principles that shaped themÌ¢ â principles derived in part from perceptions of the role played by the Spirit inherited from traditions ancient and modern. Although the location and language of the epicleses incorporated into Western eucharistic prayers during the last half century have varied, many of these pneumatic invocations were influenced at some stage of their development by early models (and often early Eastern models) of eucharistic praying. cache/1c18df67p21.txt txt/1c18df67p21.txt