Pub Date : 2024-01-26DOI: 10.1177/00393207231225979
E. Uzukwu
Ecumenical activities in East and West Africa, though modest, represent significant strides for Christianity in the continent of Africa. The narrative in this article, deliberately tilted toward African agency, is an attempt to capture aspects of the story. It begins with the ecumenical liturgical performance of Catholic Kongo-Angola slaves soliciting Holy Communion from Anglican divines, in South Carolina, early in the eighteenth century. Its impact in the overall understanding of ecumenism from the African context is underlined. Next, the article shifts to eastern and western Africa, where a divisive colonial Christian agenda was propagated, and, at the same time, contained, thanks to the initiative of African leadership, guided by the Holy Spirit. Further samples of the Holy Spirit guiding the community to Christian unity are drawn from the witness of the Ugandan martyrs. The article also refers to the liturgical melding of Christian denominations in the Charismatic and Pentecostal patterns of worship as an important statement on liturgical ecumenism.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-23DOI: 10.1177/00393207231226167
Bryan Cones
Feminist, LGBTQIA+, and postcolonial critiques over the past decades have questioned the so-called “ecumenical consensus” in liturgical matters ranging from language about God to lectionaries to liturgical time. These developments have affected liturgical development across churches, with some (most recently, the Presbyterian Church, USA) revising their resources to address these critiques. Others are pursuing a different approach: This article will provide a case study of ongoing liturgical development in The Episcopal Church, which has chosen not to redraft its 1979 Book of Common Prayer but, instead, encourage the development of supplemental resources housed at an official church website governed by its triennial General Convention and church law. The use of such resources will be regulated primarily by local bishops and pastors; already some bishops have authorized the use of different lectionary patterns and, anecdotally, variances in the baptismal formula. This article seeks to uncover the opportunities and the risks of such an approach to liturgical reform in one church, with a view to the effect it may have on that treasured “ecumenical consensus” among the churches.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-10DOI: 10.1177/00393207231224499
Marie Rosenius
The article highlights secular influences in contemporary understandings of liturgical participation by exploring the relationship between visions of the early modern liturgical movement and contemporary ways of understanding participation in the Church of Sweden. The constructs opine, understand, and do are used in the comparison as are the concepts participatio plena, participatio conscia, and participatio actuosa in Sacrosanctum Concilium. An overall reflection based on the analysis is that secular ideologies and trends not only influence liturgical form but tend to erode theological language itself. Religious individualism, combined with “internal ecclesial secularization,” tends to imbue the very understanding of church and of liturgy. A new phase in the liturgical movement called the “late modern liturgical movement” is discussed. The church appears here as the “church of the individual” and the liturgy in the sense of ordo is seen as an “open” order and framework, rather than as juxtaposition and sacramental event.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-10DOI: 10.1177/00393207231226130
Andrew Blosser
Liturgy invites participants to partake in spiritual goods that are also economic commodities. This article explores the liturgical significance of these commodities through the lens of Veblenian thought. Thorstein Veblen argues that consumption of positional or inherently limited goods signifies predatory status, and that liturgy similarly uses such resources to depict God as a predator. Addressing Veblen's analysis of liturgy, Paul's explanation of the eucharist in 1 Corinthians 11 suggests that the goods of liturgy are the antitheses of positional goods, insofar as they attain their highest goodness when shared equitably. Such “sacramental goods” provide a means for viewing divine participation not only in the liturgy, but also in the broader economy. Selected implications follow, including a need to orient the aesthetics of the liturgy toward shared rather than limited goodness, and cautious employment of consumerist emblems in liturgical settings.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-21DOI: 10.1177/00393207231209518
Nicolas Cochand, I. Gazzola, J. Getcha
L'article (conférence donnée au congrès de la Societas Liturgica à Maynooth, août 2023) porte sur une expérience d'enseignement œcuménique de la liturgie dans le cadre de l'Institut supérieur d'études oecuméniques à Paris. Il est signé des trois enseignants (orthodoxe, catholique et protestant) en charge des cours. Il commence par un historique de cette expérience de près de vingt ans. Il donne ensuite des éléments de méthodologie, pour souligner enfin les apports qu'on peut en retirer. Il conclut qu'une approche oecuménique de la liturgie permet de porter un regard critique sur sa propre tradition, de mieux la comprendre en la situant dans une tradition plus large, mais en percevant aussi les spécificités et richesses des autres traditions.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-19DOI: 10.1177/00393207231185365
Scaria Kanniyakonil
Liturgical prayers comprise a myriad of moral concepts. This is obvious in the anaphora of Addai and Mari, one of the earliest liturgies in the East Syrian tradition. Prayers of this anaphora are a source of Christian moral tradition. This article argues that there are fundamental moral concepts, moral values, and special moral cases in the anaphora of Addai and Mari. The prominent moral themes of this anaphora include conscience, justice, love, communion, holiness, gratitude, mercy, peace, and eco-theology. Moreover, participation in the Holy Qurbana incites moral imagination and subsequently helps one to arrive at good moral decisions. The result is the moral response (counter-gift) of the participation in the Holy Qurbana. The article also explores the similarities between the moral concepts of Acts of Thomas, Ephrem's hymns, Aphrahat's Demonstrations and the anaphora of Addai and Mari. This article reasons that a deep relationship exists between liturgy and morality, and one can obtain mature moral perspectives from the anaphora of Addai and Mari in the present context.
礼仪祈祷包含了无数的道德观念。这在Addai和Mari的回指中很明显，这是东叙利亚传统中最早的礼拜仪式之一。这种回指式的祈祷是基督教道德传统的来源。本文认为，在阿岱和马里的回指中存在着基本的道德观念、道德价值和特殊的道德案例。这个回指中突出的道德主题包括良心、正义、爱、共融、圣洁、感恩、怜悯、和平和生态神学。此外，参与神圣的古兰经激发了道德想象力，并随后帮助人们做出良好的道德决定。其结果是参与神圣的古尔班纳的道德反应(反礼物)。文章还探讨了《多马行传》、《Ephrem赞美诗》、《阿弗拉哈特的示范》和《adai and Mari》的回指之间道德观念的相似性。本文认为礼仪与道德之间存在着深刻的关系，从阿岱和马里的回指中可以获得成熟的道德视角。
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Pub Date : 2023-07-18DOI: 10.1177/00393207231185590
F. Kruger
The central theme of this article is the matter of church participants’ engagement in liturgy and how this could enhance their capacity for making moral decisions when it comes to life in the Anthropocene. First, one should acknowledge that liturgists in faith communities have to deal with the notion of people enclaved in the idea of homeless minds. They are exposed to contradictory views on reality. The concept of cognitive dissonance needs to be addressed, and without constructive homiletical-liturgical address of this matter, it will lead to people looking for answers elsewhere. Liturgy inevitably enables participants to see things they do not or may not want to. People want to make sense of life and experiences in daily life, a process well-known as cognition. It should also be acknowledged that without reflection on the functioning of attitudes within Weltanschauung's framework, numerous challenges for any debate on life in the Anthropocene will be experienced. First, this article offers a description of the currently concerning aspects to be found under this rubric. Second, systemizing perspectives based on the philosophy of religion, anthropology, bioethics, and cognitive psychology are examined as centered on the intimate interplay with ethical conduct in viewing the world and liturgy. Finally, the following research question is formulated and briefly discussed: How could a homiletical-liturgical praxeology dealing with the homeless mind enable its participants to cultivate a Weltanschauung committed to a focused interest in the Anthropocene? The methodological approach of Browning has been carefully identified to arrange the research into coherent phases and reflect on the research question.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-10DOI: 10.1177/00393207231181927
Jason J. McFarland
Liturgical theology is a relatively new sub-discipline of theology. Despite many efforts, clarity is still lacking in both its purpose and methodology. In this study, the liturgical-theological method of luminary Kevin W. Irwin is dissected, diagrammed, and evaluated in direct response to recent calls in the academy for clarity in liturgical-theological method; the study also contributes to the ongoing conversation as to what liturgical theology is, why it matters, and how it is to be undertaken.
礼仪神学是神学中一个相对较新的分支学科。尽管做出了许多努力，但其目的和方法仍然缺乏明确性。在本研究中，凯文·欧文(Kevin W. Irwin)的礼仪神学方法被剖析、图解和评估，以直接回应最近学术界对礼仪神学方法清晰化的呼吁;这项研究也为正在进行的关于什么是礼仪神学，为什么它很重要，以及如何进行的讨论做出了贡献。
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Pub Date : 2023-07-05DOI: 10.1177/00393207231185227
Cas Wepener
In the second part of this article exploring angry liturgy and preaching, a preliminary theory of liturgical and homiletical praxis for angry liturgy and preaching is developed. The theoretical exploration of anger from Part 1 is developed by means of explicating the themes of angry listening, angry hermeneutics, practices, and strategies for angry preaching, and angry liturgy as a liturgical and homiletical praxis theory.
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