Didache

[Rub141]

Who wrote the Didache?

The reason I am asking is that a collegue firmly believes that the doxology used after the Our Father is purely protestant.

My take on it is that it came from the didache and the didache predates the protestant movement.

Also when was this doxology added. My collegue has his roman missal from 1958 and the doxology is not used in it.

thanks

Rob

 

[Br.Rich_SFO]

Who wrote the Didache?

The reason I am asking is that a collegue firmly believes that the doxology used after the Our Father is purely protestant.

My take on it is that it came from the didache and the didache predates the protestant movement.

Also when was this doxology added. My collegue has his roman missal from 1958 and the doxology is not used in it.

thanks

Rob

The Didache is dated from the last half of the first century. It author is unknown.

 

[otjm]

And it was added post Vatican 2. It is a very Catholic prayer. The Portestants got it from us. They added it to the end of the Our Father. We added it after the Our Father; and there is nothing wrong with that; after all it is our prayer.

 

[Andreas_Hofer]

It was incredibly common in days of yore to add doxologies to the ends of prayers, and it’s quite possible that the Protestants picked it up from a Catholic way of saying the prayer. Someone would have to look into the history to know for sure. I do think it’s odd that we changed our liturgy to accommodate it, which does appear a lot like throwing a bone to Protestants, but that doesn’t mean the prayer itself is Protestant in origin. The funniest thing about this prayer and its doxology, though, is that some Protestants, for all the talk of sola scriptura, seem unaware that the doxology is not part of the biblical prayer.

 

[BillFL]

Please checkout what the New Advent web site has to say

www.newadvent.org/cathen/04779a.htm

 

[Brendan]

The Doxology after the Pater Noster has been a part of the Catholic Liturgy for millenia. The Orthodox also have the Doxology.

What happened is that some Scripual copist added the doxology to the Lord’s Prayer while making a copy of the Gospels (most likely on the side margins).

In some later copies, it was added to the text itself and it thus shows up in some Protestant Bibles ( Matt 6:13).

 

[drafdog]

The doxology following the Lord’s prayer, or something very like it, was probably part of the Lord’s prayer in the beginning. This is based on the analysis of the text. Without the doxology the prayer is an incomplete chiasmus. Most unlikely that the original from the Master would have lacked completeness. Who knows how it was lost or why it seems to be an addition from marginal notes?

Matthew