Pub Date : 2023-01-05DOI: 10.1177/00393207221149163
Shawn Strout
Misunderstandings about the event character of liturgy and preaching often lead to critiques of the assertion that they are theologia prima. Mystagogical preaching as a distinctively theological event can illuminate the inherent connection between liturgy and preaching as theologia prima. This article begins with an exposition of liturgy as a theological event, continues with preaching as a theological event, and therefore argues that mystagogical preaching is a distinctively theological event because it involves expounding on the very liturgical event in which it is occurring. Saint Augustine's “Sermon 272” is used as a case study.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-05DOI: 10.1177/00393207221146034
Fergus Michael Timothy Ryan
The Easter Triduum has become the high point of the liturgical year for communities throughout the Roman Church thanks to the reforms of Pope Pius XII and those following the Second Vatican Council. Sometimes forgotten, however, is the establishment of a three-day Triduum of Easter rather than the previous Triduum before Easter, now beginning with evening Mass on Holy Thursday and comprising Good Friday, Holy Saturday and all of Easter Sunday. The post-conciliar reform of the liturgy of Easter Sunday is overlooked, especially the changes to Lauds and Vespers, which have made of Easter Sunday a full third day of the Paschal Triduum in three distinct parts reflecting three moments in the day of the Lord's resurrection. The articulated liturgical celebrations of Easter Sunday, especially due to the revised offices of Lauds and Vespers, are presented here. Considerations regarding future changes in the Triduum are also suggested such as restoring distinct elements of Tenebrae for Friday and Saturday, Baptismal Vespers, and emphasizing the ambo as the empty tomb.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-18DOI: 10.1177/00393207221145773
Calum Carswell
For centuries, choirs were at the heart of the Church's worship. Yet, despite the UK Charismatic Evangelical movement favoring contemporary worship bands, a question must be asked: What liturgical role could choirs play in modern liturgy to benefit worship? The fundamental aim of this research is to establish what that role could be. By examining how Contemporary Sacred Choral Music (CSCM) could aid in the liturgical expectation of a believer to “touch heaven” in worship, this article suggests how a choir might seek to advance such an expectation. From flexible choral music in the “ministry time” to a CSCM accompaniment during the “time of worship,” specific liturgical roles are set out and examined, detailing how and why a choir would benefit Charismatic Evangelical worship.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-13DOI: 10.1177/00393207221144062
Beniamin Zakhary
Genesis expresses human creation in God's image and likeness. This Divine image—imago Dei—given to humanity, was an important notion in the liturgical prayers of early Christians. This paper shows that early Christian anaphoras of the first five centuries utilize image language to introduce the economy of salvation, emphasizing a need for Christ's salvific incarnation, while highlighting traditional descriptions of the imago Dei. Two descriptions of the imago Dei emerge in early anaphoras. One focuses on the immortality and rationality of the human soul as the depiction of the Divine image, seen in the anaphora of St Mark, the Armenian Anaphoras of St Basil, the Byzantine Anaphora of St Basil, and the Apostolic Constitutions. The second description of the imago Dei—best seen in the anaphora of St Gregory the Theologian and the Apostolic Constitutions—ties image to authority and complements Genesis 1:26, which references humanity's dominion after creation in the Divine image. These descriptions seem to take a secondary role, since introducing the salvation narrative remains the most dominant use of the imago Dei language, which highlights the link between creation and incarnation.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-24DOI: 10.1177/00393207221138980
E. Wolff
This essay demonstrates how the engagement with specific liturgical traditions and the ambiguity of their celebration allows for an understanding of liturgy beyond the dichotomy of belief and unbelief. It analyses the potential of a “negative hermeneutics” of liturgical studies in the context of what is perceived as “cultural unbelief.” Taking Lieven Boeve's concept of a “cultural apophaticism” as a basis, it explores the reach of a negative hermeneutical approach, highlighting the paradoxical and apophatic character of the liturgical celebration and its necessary failure and developing the idea of a “liturgical apophaticism.” It shows how the liturgical celebration does not simply counteract the dynamic of unbelief but exceeds it. In a final step, this essay explores the potential that liturgy has to recreate and transform “unbelief” and the implications of negative aspects of faith and belief for the broader theological discourse.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-06DOI: 10.1177/00393207221118694
Nathan P. Chase
Edward Kilmartin in his work on liturgical anamnesis sought to develop a Trinitarian theology of liturgical participation that could bridge Christ’s historical deeds with present reality in light of the problem of time. Kilmartin identified two poles in liturgical praying: the anamnetic and the epicletic. Together they unite the faithful with Christ in the Holy Spirit. At the same time, Gabriele Winkler in her study of the classical anaphoras has argued that these prayers are centered around a ritual of ascent, whereby the faithful participate in the heavenly liturgy. A survey of the classical anaphoras across the East and West reveals that participation in the heavenly liturgy is a hallmark of eucharistic praying also complemented by an understanding of the divine’s descent to Earth. This ritual articulation of ascent and descent provides ritual/experiential flesh to Kilmartin’s Trinitarian theology of liturgical participation, and the faithful’s participation in Christ’s saving deeds.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1177/00393207211049558
B. Douglas
This article examines the beginnings of the Eucharist in Australia with the coming of the First Fleet of military and convict settlers in 1788. The role of the first Chaplain, the Rev’d Richard Johnson, is examined against his evangelical background. Tentative suggestions of sacramentality are made within the rich mixture of religious understandings in Australia, including those of the British government and its officials, concerning the Eucharist. The coming of a later ecclesiastical hierarchy in the form of archdeacons and bishops is also discussed to show the emerging influence of the Oxford Movement on eucharistic theology in early Australia, together with continuing evangelical influence.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-18DOI: 10.1177/00393207221116995
P. Bower
For the past two plus years, we have endured harrowing days and nights of a pandemic that keeps mutating into ever more contagious sub-variants that infect someone somewhere, wreaking havoc on our common life. So insidious is this particular coronavirus disease (COVID-19) that it cannot literally “die off”; instead, it incessantly perseveres in finding enough people to infect to ensure its survival until it can come roaring back in an epidemic or, God forbid, a pandemic of virulent respiratory illness. During the warmer temperature months, COVID-19 is less apt to infect enough people, who spend a great deal of time outdoors, to trigger a full-blown epidemic. But, during the colder temperature months, people spend more time indoors in poorlyventilated spaces, breathing in virus-laden air, and touching contaminated surfaces; hence, increased infections and continued social disruptions. Thankfully, given the newly advanced state of testing and treatment, most people now infected with COVID-19 will experience mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover without requiring an unexampled course of drugs. Some people, however, will become seriously ill and require intensive medical attention. Despite our social distancing, masking, quarantines, vaccines, and even lockdowns, inescapably, COVID-19 is a reality with which we must live, one hopes, in milder forms and with which we can cope. Meanwhile, our world has been turned upside down with
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Pub Date : 2022-07-25DOI: 10.1177/00393207221116659
Ian G. Coleman
The late John A.T. Robinson claimed to have identified in St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians (16:22) “the remains of the earliest Christian liturgical sequence we possess”. While assessing his thesis, I also continue with my own parallel investigation into another possible liturgical sequence in chapter fourteen of First Corinthians. This second sequence has previously been overlooked for two reasons: first, because of the ambiguity in the meaning of the word eucharistia, and, second, because Paul's focus in the passage is on glossolalia, leaving the liturgical import of it somewhat opaque.
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