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Worship As A Revelation

The Past Present and Future of Catholic Liturgy

  • Paperback
  • 200 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.3 cm

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The publication by Benedict XV1 of the motu proprio has put the question of the history and meaning of the liturgy back into centre stage, not just for Catholics but for many Christians as well. Dr Hemming seeks to provide an intelligent background to the Pope’s decision, addressing himself to a number of questions about the nature and character of Catholic worship that opens a wide-ranging historical discussion which will inform and persuade a wide audience.

The chapter on liturgy and revelation is the turning point in the book and shows how an understanding of time that is presumed in all modern philosophical thought is challenged by the understanding of divine self-revelation. This is something the young Fr Joseph Ratzinger focussed on early on in his career. This forces us to ask what our relation to liturgical events are and how we experience them.

Dr Hemming therefore advocates a high theology of the liturgy with the profoundest understanding of the numinous and the mysterium of faith. How will Christian worship change now, asks Dr Hemming in his concluding chapter? He offers a sketch of what may happen in the coming decades and long after the Papacy of Benedict XV1.


Introduction

  1. The History of Liturgical Reform
    2.The Liturgical Movement
    3.Liturgy and Revelation
    4.Litrugy as Performance
  2. Liturgy as an Understanding of Time
    Conclusion
Worship As A Revelation and Restoration And Organic Development Of The Roman Rite
Restoration And Organic Development Of The Roman RiteWorship As A Revelation
  • Author

    Laurence Paul Hemming

  • Book Format

    paperback

  • Publisher

    Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

  • Published

    June 2008

  • Weight

    273g

  • Page Count

    200

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780860124603

  • ISBN-10

    0860124606

  • Eden Code

    1122795

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