Reforming the Liturgy: A Response to the Critics2009 Catholic Press Association Award Winner! Perhaps no liturgical scholar of our time is better ale than John Baldovin to write with clarity and accuracy about the meaning of the church's liturgy and the history of its development in the last half century. In this summary volume on the reform of the liturgy since the Second Vatican Council, Baldovin pinpoints and assesses 'both sympathetically and critically 'the objections to changes in the liturgy since the council, focusing on philosophical, historical-critical, and theological questions. After addressing each criticism in turn, in a final chapter he assesses the critique of post 'Vatican II liturgy as a whole, affirming what is accurate and necessary, rejecting what is backward looking, and proposing a set of principles to guide future development. No one who studies or participates in liturgical action in the twenty-first century can afford to overlook this book. John F. Baldovin, SJ, is professor of historical and liturgical theology at Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. His most recent books include Bread of Life, Cup of Salvation and The Urban Character of Christian Worship. |
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... argue that it was not radical enough ) . The variations on this theme will be clarified in later chapters . In the United States the " reform of the reform " is represented by Jesuit Father Joseph Fessio and by an organization he helped ...
... North American Academy of Liturgy ( 2007 ) : 18–32 , also published as " The Uses of Liturgical History , " Worship 82 ( 2008 ) : 2-18 . It is an appendix to this study . the Present Crisis of Culture . " 23 Mannion argues 8.
... argues that , contrary to the perception of many students of the liturgy , one of the greatest problems of the contemporary liturgical renewal has not been the insufficient adaptation of liturgy to culture but rather the fact that the ...
... arguing about it , is an important and necessary endeavor . 30 John O'Malley , " Vatican II : Did Anything Happen ? " TS 67 ( 2006 ) : 3-33 ; Stephen Schloesser , " Against Forgetting : Memory , History , Vatican II , " TS 67 ( 2006 ) ...
... argues for a return to an Augustinian Neoplatonism , which we shall see below is vital to her interpretation of St. Thomas on transubstantiation . One final step in Pickstock's program must be described before I deal directly with her ...
Contents
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The Historical Basis of the Reform | 36 |
A Theological Critique | 65 |
Liturgy as Ritual | 90 |
Major Issues | 105 |
A Way Forward | 134 |
The Uses of Liturgical History Berakah Response | 158 |
Bibliography | 174 |
Index | 184 |