Pub Date : 2023-07-05DOI: 10.1177/00393207231179483
Cas Wepener
In a world plagued by injustices such as gender-based violence, racism, poverty, and inequality, preaching and liturgy can foster a prophetic imagination that simultaneously criticizes and energizes. In two articles, the potentially positive role that anger can play in this kind of liturgy and preaching is explored. After a narrative-style introduction, the first article provides a contextual and theoretical background by describing a South African and global context that elicits a wide range of angry responses. It follows with an exploration of anger as an emotion and the importance of the human body, including the emotions and the senses, in the performance of worship and preaching. Furthermore, anger in theological discussions is presented, as well as the practice of listening to anger. Finally, different kinds of anger are described with one specific type, named Lordean rage by Myisha Cherry, being examined as a meaningful type of anger for liturgical praxis. Expressions of Lordean anger as encountered in biblical and present-day contexts can, and even should at times, be embodied in preaching and liturgy. The second article builds on these insights and develops a preliminary liturgical and homiletical praxis theory for angry preaching and worship.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1177/00393207231185431
Christopher M. O’Brien
Ten years into his papacy, this article explores Pope Francis’s concern for ecology and the environment in relation to the church's liturgy and sacraments, especially the eucharist. How Christians pray liturgically, especially at the eucharist, should inform Christian ethics, including our care for our common home. Drawing from Francis’s Laudato Si’ and Desiderio Desideravi, as well as from various works by liturgical and sacramental theologian Kevin Irwin, this article aims to demonstrate the close connection that exists in Francis’s thought between the church's liturgy and the church's relationship with the natural world. Though it has been particularly emphasized in recent decades, care for creation can be grounded theologically in the church's tradition, especially in its liturgical prayer and sacramental theology. As Francis writes, “It is in the Eucharist that all that has been created finds its greatest exaltation” (Laudato Si’, 236).
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Pub Date : 2023-06-26DOI: 10.1177/00393207231181928
Grant Sandercock-Brown
In our current age, authenticity is a highly regarded virtue which has very real implications for preachers in how they present themselves to their hearers and how they craft their homilies. The work of Charles Taylor will help us explore these implications. Building on an understanding of preaching as testimony and combining Taylor's insight with Augustine's timeless advice on preaching, we can then construct a three-dimensional framework for contemporary preaching in a Western context. We then reflect on the practical implications of a dimension of authenticity understood as appropriate self-disclosure. An exploration and critique of authenticity will lay the groundwork for an enhanced understanding of the contemporary preaching enterprise.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-31DOI: 10.1177/00393207231178379
Bernd Irlenborn
The coronavirus pandemic in particular has shown how important and indispensable digitally mediated liturgical practices are for the Christian faith. Nevertheless, some serious theological challenges remain. This article discusses three problems and open questions concerning online liturgy. In order to achieve a balanced assessment, I begin with a summary of advantages and opportunities of recent forms of online liturgical practices. I then refer to the question of authenticity of digitally mediated liturgical practices. In the following section, I focus on the ontological problem of God's presence in the context of online communion. I then discuss the question of embodiment in online congregations with reference to a phenomenological distinction. In the final section, I conclude with a brief outlook.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-01DOI: 10.1177/00393207180481-208
Elbatrina Clauteaux
M presentation involves a three-way conversation between anthropology, philosophy and theology. I propose to start from the anthropological observation of the narrative, symbolic and ritual mediations carried out among the Pemon Indians of the Venezuelan Amazon. I will then ask whether this symbolic, religious order of the Pemons, imprinted with a “natural” sacredness, might provide, in addition to its anthropological dimension, entry to a theological dimension from a theological point of view. For, from the perspective of the topic of this Congress, I wanted to begin a reflection on presence by means of the transcendental opening up of the principle of “sacramentality” in the symbolic religious mediations beyond Christianity. It seems to me that this can be considered in accordance with the theology of creation and a pneumatological Christology that reminds us of the universal mediation of Christ and the gift of the Holy Spirit in his salvific passover, recalled in the conciliar documents of the Second Vatican Council.1 My thesis will be that if the anthropological domain is also to be the theological domain, then it is so by virtue of the principle of “sacramentality”, that is to say that God reveals Godself and communicates Godself to humankind through symbolic, narrative and ritual mediations, because creation, creatures2
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Pub Date : 2018-09-01DOI: 10.1177/00393207180481-207
Elbatrina Clauteaux
M intervention se situe au sein d’une conversation triangulaire entre l’anthropologie, la philosophie et la théologie. Je me propose de partir de l’observation anthropologique des médiations narratives, symboliques et rituelles effectuée chez les Indiens pémons de l’Amazonie vénézuélienne. Je demanderai ensuite si cet ordre symbolique religieux des Pémon empreint d’une sacralité « naturelle » peut avoir, en plus de sa dimension anthropologique, l’ouverture à une dimension théologale d’un point de vue théologique. Car, dans la perspective de la problématique de ce Congrès, j’ai voulu engager une réflexion sur la présence sous mode d’ouverture transcendantale du principe « sacramentalité » dans des médiations symboliques religieuses en dehors du christianisme. L’œuvre de LouisMarie Chauvet étant une relecture sacramentelle de l’existence chrétienne en théologie, peut être reçue comme le déploiement du Principe Sacramentalité en christianisme, et dans ma réflexion, comme un point de départ en amont. Peuton penser théologiquement la présence de ce principe en puissance pour tous les hommes?
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Pub Date : 2018-09-01DOI: 10.1177/00393207180481-205
Josef Quitterer
In my paper I argue that liturgical rituals presuppose shared intentions, beliefs and goals on behalf of the participants. Even if there are different roles in liturgy (priests, deacons, ‘normal’ believers), there is no intentional asymmetry between ‘performers’ and ‘followers’. My account of liturgical rituals as shared activities of participants with shared intentions, beliefs and goals requires a modification of Gärdenfors’ understanding of rituals as tools of learning.
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