Turning Toward the Lord: Orientation in Liturgical PrayerIntroduction by Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) Turning towards the Lord presents an historical and theological argument for the traditional, common direction of liturgical prayer, known as "facing east", and is meant as a contribution to the contemporary debate about the Catholic liturgy. Lang, a member of the London Oratory, studies the direction of liturgical prayer from an historical, theological, and pastoral point of view. At a propitious moment, this book resumes a debate that, despite appearances to the contrary, has never really gone away, not even after the Second Vatican Council. Historical research has made the controversy less partisan, and among the faithful there is an increasing sense of the problems inherent in an arrangement that hardly shows the liturgy to be open to the things that are above and to the world to come. In this situation, Lang's delightfully objective and wholly unpolemical book is a valuable guide. Without claiming to offer major new insights, Lang carefully presents the results of recent research and provides the material necessary for making an informed judgment. It is from such historical evidence that the author elicits the theological answers that he proposes. |
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... Regensburg: Schnell und Steiner, 2003!, 27: 'Die “Mitte” der zum Gottesdienst versammelten Gemeinde ist exzentrisch, d.h. sie ist nicht einfach durch kirchenbauliche Gegebenheiten darstellbar.' 7Translating A. Heinz, 'Ars celebrandi ...
... Regensburg: Schnell und Steiner, 2003!, 10–26. 10Translating Gerhards, '“Blickt nach Osten!”', 208. For a similar criticism, see L. van Tongeren, 'Vers une utilisation dynamique et flexible de l'espace: Une réflexion renouvelée sur le ...
... Regensburg:Schnell und Steiner, 2003!, 27–30; likewise M. Wallraff, Christ- us verus sol: Sonnenverehrung und Christentum in der Spätantike, JAC.E 32 ~Mün- ster: Aschendorff, 2001!, 72, n. 53. 33 The Reform of the Liturgy and Position ...
... Regensburg: Schnell und Steiner, 2003!, 31, n. 9, has reservations about Wallraff's thesis, because he finds the evidence adduced by him not wholly satisfactory. 25Landsberger, 'Sacred Direction', 181: 'It is striking that the position ...
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