Ritual & Liturgical Studies
Further Reading:
Liturgical Theology & The Eucharistic Liturgy
Adolf Adam, Foundations of Liturgy: An Introduction to Its History and Practice.
Adolf Adam, The Eucharistic Celebration: The Source and Summit of Faith.
Alexander Schmemann, For the Life of the World.
Alexander Schmemann, Introduction to Liturgical Theology.
Alexander Schmemann, Liturgy and Life: Christian Development through Liturgical Experience.
Alexander Schmemann, Liturgy and Tradition.
Alexander Schmemann, The Eucharist: Sacrament of the Kingdom.
Andrew McGowan, Ancient Christian Worship: Early Church Practices in Social, Historical, and Theological Perspective.
Arsenius Mikhail, Guides to the Eucharist in Medieval Egypt.
Brant Pitre, Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist.
Brian D. Spinks, Do This in Remembrance of Me: The Eucharist from the Early Church to the Present Day.
Cheslyn Jones, Geoffrey Wainwright, and Edward Yarnold, The Study of Liturgy.
Christopher Hall, Worshipping with the Church Fathers.
Christopher Irvine, Cross and Creation in Christian Liturgy and Art.
Daniel Sheerin, The Eucharist (Message of the Fathers of the Church).
Dom Gregory Dix, The Shape of the Liturgy.
F.E. Warren, The Liturgy and Ritual of the Ante-Nicene Church.
Fr. Athanasius al-Makary, A Summary of the Liturgical History of the Church of Alexandria (vol. 1-3).
Fr. Athanasius Iskander, Understanding the Liturgy.
Fr. Tadros Y. Malaty, Christ in the Eucharist.
Fr. Tadros Y. Malaty, The Eucharist.
George Kalantzis and Marc Cortez, Come, Let Us Eat Together.
H.G. Bishop Mattaos, Spirituality of the Liturgy.
H.G. Bishop Mattaos, How to Benefit from the Holy Liturgy (vol. 1-2).
H.G. Bishop Mattaos, Sacrament of the Eucharist.
Hippolytus of Rome, On the Apostolic Tradition (Popular Patristics Series, SVS Press).
Jean Danielou, The Bible and the Liturgy.
J.G. Davies, The New Westminster Dictionary of Liturgy and Worship.
Joachim Jeremias, The Eucharistic Words of Jesus.
Josef Jungmann, The Place of Christ in Liturgical Prayer.
Joseph L. Price, From Season to Season: Sports as American Religion.
Louis Bouyer, Eucharist: Theology and Spirituality of the Eucharistic Prayer.
Lucien Deiss, Springtime of the Liturgy: Liturgical Texts of the First Four Centuries.
Owen Cummings, Eucharistic Doctors: A Theological History.
Paul F. Bradshaw and Maxwell E. Johnson, The Eucharistic Liturgies: Their Evolution and Interpretation.
Peter D. Day, The Liturgical Dictionary of Eastern Christianity.
Ramez Mikhail, The Presentation of the Lamb: The Prothesis and Preparatory Rites of the Coptic Liturgy (Studies in Eastern Christian Liturgies).
Raniero Cantalamessa, The Eucharist: Our Sanctification.
Robert Taft, Liturgy: Model of Prayer — Icon of Life.
Robert Taft, Saints — Sanctity — Liturgy.
Robert Taft, Worship is What Liturgy Does.
Rudolf Yanney, Coptic Church Review vol. 32 Special Issue: The Eucharist and Its Theological Aspects in Scripture, Liturgy, and Patristic Writings.
St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Lectures on the Christian Sacraments (Popular Patristics Series, SVS Press).
Thomas Fisch, Primary Readings on the Eucharist.
Thomas K. Carroll and Thomas Halton, Liturgical Practice in the Fathers (Message of the Fathers of the Church).
Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life.
Willy Rordorf, The Eucharist of the Early Christians.
The Liturgical Calendar
Adolf Adam, The Key to Faith: Meditations on the Liturgical Year.
Adolf Adam, The Liturgical Year: Its History and Its Meaning After the Reform of the Liturgy.
Fr. Alexander Schmemann, The Church Year (Celebration of Faith, Sermons, vol. 2).
Fr. John Behr, The Cross Stands While the World Turns: Homilies for the Cycles of the Year.
Fr. John Paul Abdelsayed, Treasures of the Fathers: Patristic Meditations on the Sunday Gospels of the Coptic Lectionary (series).
Fr. Lev Gillet, The Year of Grace of the Lord: A Scriptural and Liturgical Commentary on the Calendar of the Orthodox Church.
Fr. Mikhail E. Mikhail, Focus on the Family: A Scriptural and Liturgical Guide Based on the Coptic Orthodox Lectionary.
Fr. Thomas Hopko, The Lenten Spring.
Fr. Thomas Hopko, The Winter Pascha.
Georges A. Barrois, Scripture Readings in Orthodox Worship.
Hugh Wybrew, Orthodox Feasts of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary: Liturgical Texts with Commentary.
Johanna Manley, Grace for Grace: The Psalter and the Holy Fathers.
Johanna Manley, The Bible and the Holy Fathers for Orthodox.
Maxwell E. Johnson, Between Memory and Hope: Readings on the Liturgical Year.
Paul F. Bradshaw and Maxwell E. Johnson, The Origins of Fasts, Feasts, and Seasons in Early Christianity.
Raymond E. Brown, Christ in the Gospels of the Liturgical Year.
Thomas J. Talley, Origins of the Liturgical Year.
Baptism, Confirmation, Repentance, & Confession
Alexander Schmemann, Of Water and the Spirit: A Liturgical Study of Baptism.
Ambrose of Milan, Method of Mystagogical Preaching.
Bill Corcoran, Preparing the Rites of Initiation with Adults and Children of Catechetical Age.
Boda Smith, Repentance in Christian Theology.
B.T.A. Evetts, The Rites of the Coptic Church: The Order of Baptism and The Order of Matrimony According to the Use of the Coptic Church.
E.C. Whitaker, Documents of the Baptismal Liturgy.
Edward Yarnold, The Awe-Inspiring Rites of Initiation.
Enrico Mazza, Mystagogy: A Theology of Liturgy in the Patristic Age.
Everett Ferguson, Baptism in the Early Church: History, Theology, and Liturgy in the First Five Centuries.
Maxwell E. Johnson, The Rites of Christian Initiation: Their Evolution and Interpretation.
Oscar Cullmann, Baptism in the New Testament.
Peter J. Leithart, Baptism: A Guide to Life From Death.
Robin M. Jensen, Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianity: Ritual, Visual, and Theological Dimensions.
St. Augustine, The First Catechetical Instruction (Ancient Christian Writers).
Matrimony
H.G. Bishop Moussa, The Christian Meaning of Marriage.
John Chryssavgis, Love, Sexuality, and the Sacrament of Marriage.
John Meyendorff, Marriage: An Orthodox Perspective.
Kenneth Stevenson, To Join Together: The Rite of Marriage.
Moheb Thomas and Youstina Thomas, Weddings and Wedlock: Insights from the Church Fathers on Happiness, Marriage, and Wedding Celebrations.
Paul Evdokimov, The Sacrament of Love.
St. John Chrysostom, On Marriage and Family Life (Popular Patristics Series, SVS Press).
Ordination
Alexandre Faivre, The Emergence of the Laity in the Early Church.
Alistar C. Stewart, The Original Bishops.
James F. Puglisi, The Process of Admission to Ordained Ministry: A Comparative Study.
James Monroe Barnett, The Diaconate: A Full and Equal Order.
Paul F. Bradshaw, Rites of Ordination: Their History and Theology.
Phyllis Zagano, Ordination of Women to the Diaconate in the Eastern Churches.
Death & Illness
Alexander Schmemann, Liturgy of Death.
Jean-Claude Larchet, The Theology of Illness.
Michael Marsch, Healing Through the Sacraments.
Paul Meyendorff, The Anointing of the Sick.
Thomas G. Long, Accompany Them with Singing: The Christian Funeral.
Thomas G. Long and Thomas Lynch, The Good Funeral: Death, Grief, and the Community of Care.
Disclaimer: This list serves as a collection of various perspectives, titles, and backgrounds, and may not necessarily endorse the teaching, history, and understanding of the Coptic Orthodox Church.