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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... sol: Sonnenverehrung und Christentum in der Spätantike, JAC.E32 ~Münster:Aschendorff, 2001!, 60–88. 2Dölger, Sol salutis, 20–38. On the difficult question of sun-worship and the cult of Yahweh in ancient Israel, see the study of J. G. ...
... Sol salutis, 38–60. 5W. Burkert, KlassischesAltertum und antikes Christentum:Probleme einer über- greifenden Religionswissenschaft, Hans-Lietzmann-Vorlesungen 1 ~Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1996!, 43, emphasises the originality of ...
... Sol salutis, 165–67. 18See Tosefta, Megillah 4@3#, 22, and Babylonian Talmud, Menahot 109b. 19This point is not noticed by J. Wilkinson, 'Orientation, Jewish and Christian', PEQ 116 ~1984!: 16–30. 20Cf. F. Landsberger, 'The Sacred ...
... Sol salutis, 194–98. About the Ebionites, see Irenaeus of Lyons, Haer. I, 26, 2:SC 264, 346: “Hierosolymam adorent quasi domus sit Dei.” 23Wallraff, 'La preghiera verso l'oriente', 468. 24According to the Babylonian 43 Prayer, Liturgy ...
... Sol salutis, 185–86; Peterson, Frühkirche, Judentum und Gnosis, 12–13; A.J. Wensinck, 'Kibla I', in Encyclopédie de L'Islam, ed. C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, B. Lewis, and C. Pellat, new ed. ~Leiden and Paris: Brill, 1986!, 5:84–85 ...