Focusing on 1 Cor. 11, this article argues that the early Christian meal can be understood as a cultural technique that enables new knowledge and insight, specifically about the world to come. The argument takes its vantage point from an understanding of the early Christian meal as a form of social experimentation that engages in prefigurative practices, thereby anticipating the world to come. To explore the latter phenomenon, this article makes use of a body of theory concerning prefigurative politics, a field not commonly associated with the study of religion. However, it is shown that this body of theory is a useful tool for considering that the kind of knowledge regarding the world to come is made possible through the performance of the early Christian meal, understood as a cultural technique. In this manner, the present article aims to make contributions at the levels of both the theory regarding the study of the early Christian meal and insights into it.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-24DOI: 10.21827/yrls.38.108-123
J. Wojtkowiak
Ritualizing, the creative, imaginative, and intuitive act of ritual making has been acknowledged for some time now in the literature. In this study, this intuitive process is studied in more detail from the perspective of ritual theory. The aim is to theoretically strengthen a framework of ritual making for professionals, such as chaplains and celebrants working with renewed rituals. A practical framework comprising three steps of ritual making is discussed in more detail: 1) communicating about ritual theme or cause, 2) the ritual (re)design and 3) performing the ritual. Ritualizing leads to dynamics and possible tensions, such as between introducing new elements and (re)using old ones or between the individual and the collective. The article offers an entry point or building block to understand contemporary ritual making in postsecular contexts.
{"title":"Ritual (Re)design. Towards a Framework for Professional Ritual Making in Postsecular Contexts","authors":"J. Wojtkowiak","doi":"10.21827/yrls.38.108-123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/yrls.38.108-123","url":null,"abstract":"Ritualizing, the creative, imaginative, and intuitive act of ritual making has been acknowledged for some time now in the literature. In this study, this intuitive process is studied in more detail from the perspective of ritual theory. The aim is to theoretically strengthen a framework of ritual making for professionals, such as chaplains and celebrants working with renewed rituals. A practical framework comprising three steps of ritual making is discussed in more detail: 1) communicating about ritual theme or cause, 2) the ritual (re)design and 3) performing the ritual. Ritualizing leads to dynamics and possible tensions, such as between introducing new elements and (re)using old ones or between the individual and the collective. The article offers an entry point or building block to understand contemporary ritual making in postsecular contexts.","PeriodicalId":129930,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122567999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study offers a close reading of the 1984 Ordo benedictionis novae domus in light of its sources in previous rituals, scripture, and the insights of the Second Vatican Council. In doing so, it explores the ritual and theological evolutions that have taken place both in Roman Catholic house blessings and in the post-conciliar reform of the Rituale Romanum viewed holistically. By analyzing one rite in depth, this study demonstrates how the ritual and theological emphases brought about by the liturgical reform of Vatican II are manifested in concrete liturgical texts and practices. The Ordo benedictionis novae domus reveals the postconciliar shifts towards holistic ecclesial participation and liturgical texts that are scripturally, Christologically, and ecclesiologically rich.
{"title":"Ordo Benedictionis Novae Domus. Text, Context, and Theology","authors":"Christopher O'Brien","doi":"10.21827/yrls.37.22-34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/yrls.37.22-34","url":null,"abstract":"This study offers a close reading of the 1984 Ordo benedictionis novae domus in light of its sources in previous rituals, scripture, and the insights of the Second Vatican Council. In doing so, it explores the ritual and theological evolutions that have taken place both in Roman Catholic house blessings and in the post-conciliar reform of the Rituale Romanum viewed holistically. By analyzing one rite in depth, this study demonstrates how the ritual and theological emphases brought about by the liturgical reform of Vatican II are manifested in concrete liturgical texts and practices. The Ordo benedictionis novae domus reveals the postconciliar shifts towards holistic ecclesial participation and liturgical texts that are scripturally, Christologically, and ecclesiologically rich.","PeriodicalId":129930,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125097115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Summary of the dissertation "Comfort in Luther and Bach. A Study of the Comforting Value of Martin Luther’s Church Songs and Interpretation of Comfort in the Choral Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach".
论文“路德与巴赫的慰藉”综述。马丁·路德教会歌曲的安慰价值研究及巴赫合唱大合唱对安慰的诠释。
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Children take part in liturgical-ritual activities. In Sunday services, children’s church, Sunday school, and special services, children sit in pews, respond to Bible stories, and perform liturgical actions like singing in a choir, welcoming people, saying a prayer, or participating in the Lord’s Supper. Based on participant observations and interviews, this book describes and analyzes the variety of worship practices with children in Dutch Protestant contexts. A central concern is how people adapt worship to suit children and how children contribute to worship. The conclusions show children as agentive participants in worship. In addition, the conclusions nuance the debate on intergenerational worship, highlight the importance of spirituality for both adults and children, and explore how the material environment influences worship. This practical theological research gives a better understanding of Dutch Protestant liturgical rituals with children and their theological significance.
{"title":"Worship with Children: Agentive Participation in Dutch Protestant Contexts","authors":"Lydia van Leersum-Bekebrede","doi":"10.21827/61a0b3d27e7af","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/61a0b3d27e7af","url":null,"abstract":"Children take part in liturgical-ritual activities. In Sunday services, children’s church, Sunday school, and special services, children sit in pews, respond to Bible stories, and perform liturgical actions like singing in a choir, welcoming people, saying a prayer, or participating in the Lord’s Supper. Based on participant observations and interviews, this book describes and analyzes the variety of worship practices with children in Dutch Protestant contexts. A central concern is how people adapt worship to suit children and how children contribute to worship. The conclusions show children as agentive participants in worship. In addition, the conclusions nuance the debate on intergenerational worship, highlight the importance of spirituality for both adults and children, and explore how the material environment influences worship. This practical theological research gives a better understanding of Dutch Protestant liturgical rituals with children and their theological significance.","PeriodicalId":129930,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131938416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Summary of the dissertation "Unusual Liturgical Ritual Practices by Present-day Prophets in South Africa. A Practical Theological Analysis".
论文“当代南非先知不寻常的礼仪仪式实践”综述。实用神学分析”。
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Ritual counsellors are self-employed entrepreneurs that mainly guide funeral rites. Literature suggests that ritual counsellors may experience tensions between values in profiling themselves to the media and funeral market. Assigned by the Dutch professional organization for ritual counsellors (LBVR), a qualitative case study was designed. Using the innovative method of organizational constellations, we investigate underlying tensions in a profiling situation. 10 Dutch ritual counsellors participated. Results indicate that they experience a tension between ‘money’ and ‘being there for other people’. Normatively, ‘money’ is valued less than ‘being there’. Ritual counsellors render multiple, sometimes contradicting meanings of ‘money’ that include mental, normative and felt elements. The tension is on a deeper level related to ‘acknowledgment’.
{"title":"Ritual Counsellors’ Value Tensions in Profiling. A Pilot Study Using Organizational Constellations","authors":"A. Mulder, Angela Stoof","doi":"10.21827/yrls.37.1-21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/yrls.37.1-21","url":null,"abstract":"Ritual counsellors are self-employed entrepreneurs that mainly guide funeral rites. Literature suggests that ritual counsellors may experience tensions between values in profiling themselves to the media and funeral market. Assigned by the Dutch professional organization for ritual counsellors (LBVR), a qualitative case study was designed. Using the innovative method of organizational constellations, we investigate underlying tensions in a profiling situation. 10 Dutch ritual counsellors participated. Results indicate that they experience a tension between ‘money’ and ‘being there for other people’. Normatively, ‘money’ is valued less than ‘being there’. Ritual counsellors render multiple, sometimes contradicting meanings of ‘money’ that include mental, normative and felt elements. The tension is on a deeper level related to ‘acknowledgment’.","PeriodicalId":129930,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133894901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Since around the twelfth century, spiritual communion was defined as participating in the sacrament in a spiritual manner. This practice was based on Augustine’s distinction between the sacrament and the substance of the sacrament, which is spiritual union with Christ. Mystics such as William of Saint-Thierry contributed greatly to this practice, as they focused on the personal dimension of a spiritual union with Christ. Spiritual communion can take place when one is hindered from partaking in the sacrament, through meditation on Christ’s sacrifice or through watching the Eucharistic celebration. Yet, for mystics, spiritual communion is also the continual, inner celebration of the substance of the sacrament, which allowed them to harmoniously combine sacramental communion and spiritual communion. Spiritual communion is referred to by many mystics, including Gertrude of Helfta, Tauler, and the Evangelical Pearl. After the Council of Trent started to promote sacramental communion, the practice of spiritual communion declined.
{"title":"Spiritual Communion in Mystical Texts from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Centuries","authors":"Ineke Cornet","doi":"10.21827/YRLS.36.34-53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/YRLS.36.34-53","url":null,"abstract":"Since around the twelfth century, spiritual communion was defined as participating in the sacrament in a spiritual manner. This practice was based on Augustine’s distinction between the sacrament and the substance of the sacrament, which is spiritual union with Christ. Mystics such as William of Saint-Thierry contributed greatly to this practice, as they focused on the personal dimension of a spiritual union with Christ. Spiritual communion can take place when one is hindered from partaking in the sacrament, through meditation on Christ’s sacrifice or through watching the Eucharistic celebration. Yet, for mystics, spiritual communion is also the continual, inner celebration of the substance of the sacrament, which allowed them to harmoniously combine sacramental communion and spiritual communion. Spiritual communion is referred to by many mystics, including Gertrude of Helfta, Tauler, and the Evangelical Pearl. After the Council of Trent started to promote sacramental communion, the practice of spiritual communion declined.","PeriodicalId":129930,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies","volume":"85 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120921396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editor's Note","authors":"M. Barnard","doi":"10.21827/yrls.36.1-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/yrls.36.1-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":129930,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117078304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this essay, the authors use new primary sources to reconstruct which baptism questions were asked during two services held in Amsterdam in 1613. These services, which were taken by, amongst others, the Reformed ministers P. Plancius and G. van der Heyden and in which the later Remonstrant foremen J. Wtenbogaert and S. Episcopius acted as godparents, caused great turmoil. Research of the various editions of baptismal liturgy reveals three basic types of the second baptism question. Primary and secondary literature have overlooked the significance of one of these types in the Amsterdam services. Wtenbogaert and Episcopius, but especially the latter, were not aware of the existence of all three types and felt misled since they did not want to subscribe to the doctrine taught from the Amsterdam pulpits by affirming the questions posed. The authors outline the impact of the incidents on the format of both later Reformed and later Remonstrant baptismal liturgy.
在这篇文章中，作者使用新的原始资料来重建在1613年阿姆斯特丹举行的两次服务中被问到的洗礼问题。这些服务由改革宗牧师普朗修斯(P. Plancius)和范德海登(G. van der Heyden)等人担任，后来的抗议派工头J. Wtenbogaert和S. Episcopius担任教父母，引起了巨大的动荡。对洗礼礼仪的各种版本的研究揭示了第二洗礼问题的三种基本类型。主要和次要文献忽略了其中一种类型在阿姆斯特丹服务的意义。Wtenbogaert和Episcopius，尤其是后者，并没有意识到这三种类型的存在，并感到被误导了，因为他们不想通过肯定所提出的问题来赞同阿姆斯特丹讲坛上教导的教义。作者概述了这些事件对后来改革宗和后来的抗议洗礼礼仪的影响。
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