Ideas across traditions · ritual · Early Christian & Monastic
liturgy
Works in 10 traditions beyond Early Christian & Monastic attest this concept, on 810 cited pages. Translators have rendered it as “gottesdienst”, “gottes-dienst”; a link through a rendering is marked as such, because another translator chose differently.
Also under: liturgia · λειτουργία · “gottesdienst” · “gottes-dienst”
49works in other traditions, with a cited page
5works in Early Christian & Monastic, its home tradition on the maps
366further works where only a vocabulary list or keyword names it; not shown
0judged analogues in other traditions (a different word for a neighbouring idea)
In other traditions
Ordered by the earliest work in each tradition that attests the concept. Within a tradition, works run from earliest to latest by conventional composition date.
Hebrew & Jewish
- 500 BCEProverbs (Mishlei)a translator’s rendering
- 250 BCEEcclesiastes (Qohelet)same word and a translator’s rendering
- 165 BCEDaniel, the dreams of Nebuchadnezzara translator’s rendering
- 20 CEPhilo of Alexandria (collected works)same word
- 30 CEPhilo, De vita contemplativa (the Therapeutae)same word
Greek
- 370 BCEIsocrates, Ad Demonicum / Ad Nicoclemsame word
- 340 BCEAristotle, On Sleep, On Dreams, On Divination in Sleep (Parva naturalia)same word
- liturgyduty of maintaining a warship , or a choregy the duty of funding a chorus for a theatrical festival , or any other suchWorks of Aristotle, Ptolemy, and Hero of Alexandria, 1450, p. 137 · flagged as a term by the translator
- liturgyor divorced; in the early church, this was often seen as a sign of "lack of self-control" are completely barred from theParva Naturalia and Ambigua, 14th century, p. 96 · flagged as a term by the translator
- 340 BCEAristotle, Parva naturalia (De sensu, De memoria, De somno, De insomniis, De divinatione per somnum)same word
- 340 BCEAristotle, Nicomachean Ethicssame word
- 340 BCEAristotle, Nicomachean Ethics X (the contemplative life)same word
Hellenistic & Late Antique
- 40 CEPhilo of Alexandria, De vita contemplativa (the Therapeutae)same word
- 100 CEPlutarch, Moraliasame word
- 170 CEAelius Aristides, Sacred Tales (Hieroi logoi)same word
- 230 CEDiogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosopherssame word
- 230 CEDiogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of the Philosophers (doxography of soul theories)same word
- 400 CEEunapius, Lives of the Philosophers and Sophistssame word
Hermetic & Gnostic
- 150 CECorpus Hermeticum (I Poimandres; X; XI; XIII On Rebirth)same word and a translator’s rendering
- 200 CECorpus Hermeticum (Pimander / Poimandres)same word and a translator’s rendering
Byzantine & Orthodox
- 600 CEJohn Climacus, Ladder of Divine Ascentsame word
- 600 CEJohn Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascentsame word
- 630 CEMaximus the Confessor, Ambigua / Chapters on Love / Mystagogiasame word
- 630 CEMaximus the Confessor, Centuries on Charity and other Kephalaiasame word
- 630 CEMaximus the Confessor, Centuries on Love / Mystagogiasame word
Arabic
- 970 CEIkhwān al-Ṣafāʾ, Rasāʾil (epistles on soul, senses, sleep and dreams; animals vs man)same word and a translator’s rendering
Medieval Latin
- 1350Johannes Tauler, sermonssame word and a translator’s rendering
- 1350Johannes Tauler, Sermonssame word and a translator’s rendering
- 1420Thomas à Kempis, De Imitatione Christisame word
- 1420Thomas à Kempis, Imitatio Christisame word
Renaissance & Early Modern Europe
- 1534Sebastian Franck, Paradoxa (Zweihundertachtzig Paradoxa)a translator’s rendering
- 1547Caspar Schwenckfeld, Christian Epistle on Prayersame word and a translator’s rendering
- 1606Johann Arndt, Vier Bücher vom wahren Christentum / Paradiesgärtleinsame word and a translator’s rendering
- Gottesdienst — service of God or worshiprself for temptation. And you should first know that the godly life in faith and in the love of Christ is the true innerDrey geistreiche Lehr- und Trost Büchlein, 1654, p. 141 · flagged as a term by the translator
- Gottesdienst — divine service/worshipnd in der Warheit" , and the Father also seeks those who worship him so. This teaches us that true Christian religion orGesammlete kleine Schrifften, 1736, p. -306 · flagged as a term by the translator
- Gottesdienst — divine service or worshipated for the service of man, so man was created to serve God. Book 4, Part 2, Chapter 3, page 726. 93. In what does trueSechs Bücher vom wahren Christenthum. Paradies-Gärtlein, 1738, p. -537 · flagged as a term by the translator
- 1624Böhme, Der Weg zu Christoa translator’s rendering
- 1624Jacob Böhme, Der Weg zu Christo (The Way to Christ)a translator’s rendering
- 1660Lutheran & Reformed devotional manuals (Sonthom, Müller, Hoburg, Neumann, Labadie)same word and a translator’s rendering
- Gottesdienstso committed such abominations himself. Therefore, the **Holy Scripture** otherwise requires an unspotted service of GodGolden Jewel of the Children of God, 1634, p. 679 · original word kept by the translator
- Gottesdiensthe believer to focus on heavenly rather than earthly matters. ->(For a blessing upon the works of our divine service.)<-The Essence of All Prayers, 1714, p. 75 · original word kept by the translator
- 1682Quaker testimony (George Fox's Journal; Penn, No Cross, No Crown)same word
- 1683John Pordage, Theologia mystica / Sophiaa translator’s rendering
- 1694George Fox, Journalsame word
- 1742Ernst August of Saxe-Weimar, Theosophische Herzens-Andachtena translator’s rendering
- 1750Gerhard Tersteegen, Weg der Wahrheit / Auserlesene Lebensbeschreibungen heiliger Seelena translator’s rendering
- 1758Swedenborg, De coelo et inferno (with De commercio animae et corporis)a translator’s rendering
- 1799Gallerie der neuen Propheten, apokalyptischen Träumer, Geisterseher (1799) and the German ghost-debatesame word and a translator’s rendering
Modern European
- 1758Swedenborg, Heaven and Hella translator’s rendering
- 1766Kant, Dreams of a Spirit-Seersame word and a translator’s rendering
- 1851Fechner, Zend-Avesta (with Nanna, Über die Seelenfrage, Büchlein vom Leben nach dem Tode)a translator’s rendering
- 1903Myers, Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Deathsame word
- 1903Frederic Myers, Human Personality (on dreams, hypnagogia, veridical dreams)same word
- 1911Evelyn Underhill, Mysticism / Practical Mysticism / The Mystic Waysame word
- 1913Underhill, The Mystic Way / Practical Mysticismsame word
Zoroastrian
- 1922Modi, Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Parseessame word
At home in Early Christian & Monastic
- 200 CETertullian & Cyprian, De oratione / De dominica orationesame word
- 210 CETertullian, De animasame word
- 210 CETertullian, De anima 45–49 (on sleep and dreams)same word
- 500 CEPseudo-Dionysius, Mystical Theologysame word
- 500 CEPseudo-Dionysius, Mystical Theology & Divine Namessame word and a translator’s rendering
Evidence gate. A work is listed only where a translator marked the word as a term with a gloss, or kept the original word beside the English, on at least one page of a held edition. Vocabulary lists and keywords alone do not count: in a Greek vocabulary list ἡσυχία is the ordinary word for quiet. Up to 3 pages are shown per work, preferring those with a gloss. The vocabulary was built 2026-09-11; the graph on 2026-09-13.