Church Divinity School of the Pacific

Nancy and Michael Kaehr Professor of Liturgical Leadership
Dean of the Chapel
Core Doctoral Faculty Member

At GTU since 1999

Ph.D., GTU, 1992
MA. St. Johns Collegeville, 1982
B.A., Music, USC, 1978

Phone: 510/204-0725
E-mail: llarson@cdsp.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• Comparative liturgy, syriac christianity
• Rites for the sick and dying, funerals
• Liturgy and architecture
• Litugical Year; Liturgy of the Hours
• Liturgical Theology
• Presiding

Selected Publications

• The Sacrament of the Annointing of the Sick. Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 2005.
• "Holy Ground: Discerning Sacred Space in Public Spaces," in A Cloud of Witnesses. Leuven: Peeters, 2005.
• A Book of Essays: Medieval Liturgy (editor). New York: Garland Publishing Company, 1997.
• "Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Anglican Funeral Rites," in Religion and Death in Contemporary American Society. New York: Sheed and Ward, 2005.
• "The Place of Symbols and Vesting in Ordination Rites," in Anglican Ordination Rites. Forthcoming, 2006.