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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... Studien zu Kirche und Kunst 2 ~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 ...
... Studien zu Kirche und Kunst 2 ~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 ...
... Studien zur Meßliturgie: Festschrift für Hans Bernhard Meyer SJ zum 70. Geburtstag, ed. R. Meßner, E. Nagel, and R. Pacik, IThS 42 ~Innsbruck and Vienna:Tyrolia, 1995!, 201, n. 99, and especially R. Meßner, 'Gebetsrichtung, Altar und ...
... . 1 Kings 8:38, 44, 48, and the corresponding instructions in the Mish- nah, Berakhot 4, 5, and the Tosefta, Berakhot 3, 15–16. 7Cf. E. Peterson, Frühkirche, Judentum und Gnosis: Studien und Untersuchun- 36 Turning towards the Lord.
... Studien und Untersuchun- gen ~Freiburg:Herder, 1959!, 1–4, and L. Bouyer, Liturgy andArchitecture ~Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1967!, 17–20. 8G. Kretschmar, 'Festkalender und MemorialstättenJerusalems in altkirchli ...