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True Reform
Liturgy and Ecclesiology in Sacrosanctum Concilium
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
For Massimo Faggioli, the debate about the meaning of Vatican II too often misses the profound significance of that council's first and perhaps most consequential document, Sacrosanctum Concilium. The result is a misunderstanding of both the council as a whole and the liturgical reform that followed...
Remembering the Future
The Experience of Time in Jewish and Christian Theology
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Common to both Judaism and Christianity is a heightened engagement with time within liturgical practice, in which collective religious memory and anticipation come together to create a unique sense of time. Exploring the nebulous realms of religious experience and the sense of time, Remembering the...
by Albert Gerhards, Benedikt Kranemann
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Worship is at the heart of the Christian faith. This applies equally to all denominations. For that reason it is all the more important that the ordering of worship and its place in the life of the church is regularly rewritten and reinterpreted. This volume—based on the third, completely revised...
Liturgy's Imagined Past/s
Methodologies and Materials in the Writing of Liturgical History Today
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
This book calls attention to the importance of scholarly reflection on the writing of liturgical history. The essays not only probe the impact of important shifts in historiography but also present new scholarship that promises to reconfigure some of the established images of liturgy’s past. Based...
by Antonio Donghi
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Words and Gestures in the Liturgy is a call to attentiveness. What do the various movements in the liturgy mean? How do words affect and effect liturgical actions? Antonio Donghi explains that these gestures emerge from the experience of prayer; they are a response to the invitation to relationship...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
A Commentary on the Order of Mass of The Roman Missal gathers the insights of some of today's foremost English-speaking liturgical scholars to aid in understanding this most recent edition of the Order of Mass and its new English translation. Developed under the auspices of the Catholic Academy of...
The Eucharist in the West
History and Theology
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
In the light of its own history, the Catholic theology of the Eucharist, as it is generally understood today, is revealed as a splinter tradition whose deficiencies call for fundamental reformulation. The valid aspects of that theology (for example, the recovery of the role of the Holy Spirit in the...
Chrismation
A Primer for Catholics
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
What is chrismation? Nicholas Denysenko breaks open chrismation as sacrament of belonging by exploring its history and liturgical theology. This study offers a sacramental theology of chrismation by examining its relationship with baptism and the Eucharist and its function as the ritual for receiving...
Christian Preaching and Worship in Multicultural Contexts
A Practical Theological Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Can Christian preaching and worship in multicultural contexts be more faithful to the Christian gospel and more meaningful and memorable to worshipers? In this book, Eunjoo Mary Kim explores this theological and liturgical concern and proposes a paradigm shift from monocultural to multicultural worship. This...
Issues in Eucharistic Praying in East and West
Essays in Liturgical and Theological Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
This collection provides several "state of the question" essays on current research in a variety of Eucharistic prayers in the Churches of East and West, including attention to other issues of Eucharistic praying and theology. In addition to essays by already recognized scholars in the field,...
A Wounded Innocence
Sketches for a Theology of Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
What is the theological significance of art? Why has the Church always encouraged the arts? What is so profoundly human about the arts? In A Wounded Innocence Alejandro R. Garcia-Rivera answers these questions in a series of sketches" that are mixed spiritual and theological reflections on various...
What Makes Us Whole
Finding God in Contemporary Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Books abound on the topic of our longing for wholeness, the goal of every person's lifelong journey. But what, exactly, is wholeness? In this volume, Noel Cooper explores the essential elements for successful personal growth, grounding that exploration in the teachings of Jesus. For Christians, the...
Mystagogy
A Monastic Reading of Dionysius Areopagita
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Mystagogy: A Monastic Reading of Dionysius Areopagita proposes an interpretation of the Pseudo-Dionysian corpus in light of the liturgical and ascetic tradition that defined the author and his audience. Characterized by both striking originality and remarkable fidelity to the patristic and late neoplatonic...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
In June of 2012, an astounding 360 people gathered at the University of Notre Dame for a major conference on Catholic preaching. With contributions by a wide variety of theologians and practitioners, We Preach Christ Crucified gathers the fruits of those days spent reflecting on the importance of...