Hallelujah Highway: A History of the Catechumenate

Despite the harebrained title and sometimes-saccharine prose, this work should really receive a wide readership for catechetical preparation or as a useful as a quick reference. Turner a serious scholar of the early Christian catechumenate (Cf. his articles in the journal Worship) and serves as a parish priest in Kansas City, Missouri. He composed The Hallelujah Highway as a kind of workbook for contemporary participants in the catechumenate. The work benefits from the best of post-Bradshaw (Search for the Origins of Christian Worship, etc.) contributions of the topic, treating each early witness chronologically in isolated chapters. Not bound up by the extensive footnoting of more technical introductions, a reader can access the basic contributions of each individual source and find parenthetical references where these can be studied further in context. Helpful introductions, maps, and illustrative photographs round out the volume and commend it as an excellent one-stop digest of a much larger field of literature.