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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... Church Architecture in the Early Church 35 1. Facing East: The Christian Direction of Prayer 35 2. The Direction of Prayer and the Position of the Celebrant at the Altar 61 3. Liturgy and Church Architecture 71 III The Common Direction ...
... sacred banquet.11 It would seem obvious to me that there is. and A. Join-Lambert ~Fribourg:Univ.-Verl., and Geneva:Labor ... Church architecture, see also A. Gerhards, 'Wort und Sakrament—Zur Bipolarität von Liturgie und Kirchenraum', in ...
... architectural question, this element in many places being protected by ... Church', CleR 57 ~1972!: 624. A. Lorenzer, '“Sac- rosanctum Concilium”: Der ... Architecture ~Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1967!, 105–6 ...
... Architecture in the Early Church 1. Facing East: The Christian Direction of Prayer In most major religions, the position taken in prayer and the layout ... Church Architecture in the Early Church Facing East: The Christian Direction Prayer.
... Church in Jerusalem.8 He argues that the earliest Christians identified the Mount of Olives as the location of key eschatological events on the basis of their interpretation of various Old ... Church Architecture in the Early Church.