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Worship is at the heart of the Christian faith. This applies equally to all denominations. For that reason it is all the more important that the ordering of worship and its place in the life of the church is regularly rewritten and reinterpreted. This volume—based on the third, completely revised German edition from 2013 by two of the foremost liturgical scholars in Germany—offers a contemporary, comprehensive introduction to the foundations for the study of liturgy today, one from which scholars and students in the English-speaking world can also profit. Beyond appealing to students of liturgy and theology, this book reaches out to everyone who wants to know more about the liturgical essence and dimensions of the church.

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Author:   Albert Gerhards ,  Benedikt Kranemann ,  Linda M. Maloney
Publisher:   Liturgical Press
Imprint:   Liturgical Press
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9780814663127

ISBN 10:   0814663125
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   04 October 2017
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Table of Contents

Contents Introduction� �xiii 1.� Liturgy in Its Social Context� �1 1.1� Christian Liturgy and the Multiplicity of Liturgical Celebrations� �1 1.2� “Liturgy”—History of an Idea� �6 1.3� The Rediscovery of the Ritual Dimension of Liturgy� �11 1.4� The Complex Field of Liturgy as the Subject of Liturgics� �17 2.� History, Outline, and Methods of Liturgics� �19 2.1� Liturgics from Within� �19 2.2� Historical Development of the Study of Liturgics� �20 2.2.1� Explanations of Liturgy in the Ancient Church and in the Middle Ages� �23 2.2.1.1� Early Christian Examples of Reflection on Christian Worship� �23 2.2.1.2� Medieval Explanations of Liturgy� �27 2.2.2� Humanist Collections of Liturgical Resources and Commentaries� �30 2.2.3� Rubricism in the Early Modern Era� �31 2.2.4� Shift to an Independent Discipline of “Liturgics”� �33 2.2.4.1� Liturgics since the Eighteenth Century� �33 2.2.4.2� The Beginning of Handbooks in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries� �37 2.2.5� Objectives of the Study of Liturgics in the Early Twentieth Century� �38 2.2.5.1� Multiple Methods in Liturgical Study� �39 2.2.5.2� Liturgics as a Theological Discipline� �46 2.2.5.3� Pastoral Liturgy’s Promotion of Liturgical Life� �49 2.2.6� Evaluation of the Discipline of Liturgics by the Second Vatican Council and in the Postconciliar Period� �51 2.2.7� Liturgics Today� �52 2.2.7.1� Liturgy in a Changed Ecclesial and Social Context� �52 2.2.7.2� Consequences for Method� �58 2.3� How Should We Interpret Liturgy?� �72 3.� Historical Sketch of the Roman Liturgy� �80 3.1� Study of the History of Liturgy as a Central Task of Liturgics� �80 3.2� Jewish Liturgy and Earliest Christian Worship� �86 3.2.1� Jewish Worship in Jesus’ World� �86 3.2.2� The Beginnings of Christian Worship� �90 3.2.3� Jewish and Christian Worship� �92 3.2.4� Early Christian Liturgy as Attested by Selected Sources� �95 3.3� Origins of the Roman Rite� �100 3.3.1� Liturgical Language from Greek to Latin� �100 3.3.2� Sources of Early Roman Liturgy� �101 3.3.3� The Roman Bishop’s Mass around 700� �105 3.3.4� Essential Features of the Roman Liturgy� �108 3.4� Liturgical Centers in Late Antiquity� �109 3.4.1� The Jerusalem Liturgy� �109 3.4.2� The Liturgies of the Eastern Patriarchates� �111 3.4.3� Non-Roman Western Liturgies� �112 3.5� Adaptation of Roman Liturgy North of the Alps� �114 3.5.1� Backgrounds in the History of Dogma: Defense against Arianism� �114 3.5.2� Changing Images of Christ and Consequences for Devotion in Relation to Liturgical Prayer and Festal Cycles� �115 3.5.3� Endurance of the Roman Liturgy� �118 3.5.4� Continuity and Change in the “Roman” Liturgy� �121 3.6� Basic Features of the Liturgy in the High and Late Middle Ages; the Liturgy of the City of Cologne as an Example� �123 3.7� Liturgy in the Period of the Reformation and the Catholic Reform� �128 3.7.1� The Medieval Heritage� �128 3.7.2� The Century before the Reformation� �130 3.7.3� A Reforming Project on the Eve of the Reformation: The Libellus ad Leonem X (1513)� �131 3.7.4� The Reformers’ Liturgical Reforms, with the Liturgy of the Lord’s Supper as an Example� �133 3.7.5� The Catholic Reform’s Understanding of the Liturgy� �137 3.8� Initiatives toward Liturgical Reform during the Enlightenment� �139 3.8.1� Goals and Content of Liturgical Reform in the Enlightenment Era� �140 3.8.2� Intellectual and Spiritual Background and Reforming Program: The Synod of Pistoia as an Example� �143 3.9� Liturgical Currents in the Age of the Restoration� �146 3.9.1� Church Music as “Sacred Art”� �147 3.9.2� Development of Church Music in the Nineteenth Century� �149 3.9.3� The Cecilia Movement and Increased Centralization� �151 3.9.4� From Restoration to Liturgical Movement� �152 3.10� The Liturgical Movement and Renewal� �153 3.10.1� Personalities and Centers of the Liturgical Movement� �153 3.10.2� Principles and Results of the Liturgical Reform at Vatican II� �158 3.10.3� Limits of Reform and Future Prospects� �164 4.� Theology of the Liturgy� �169 4.1� Liturgy as Assembly in the Presence of God� �169 4.1.1� Assembly as an Anthropological Phenomenon� �169 4.1.2� Liturgy as an Assembly Summoned by God� �171 4.1.3� Celebration of Liturgy in a Structured Assembly� �174 4.1.4� Listening and Responding as Fundamental Human Actions in the Liturgical Assembly� �175 4.1.5� Gathering of the Community—Gathering of the Church� �177 4.1.6� The Making-Present of Salvation History in the Symbolic Actions of Liturgy� �179 4.2� Theo-logy� �181 4.2.1� Encounter with the Personal God� �181 4.2.2� Doxological Address to God� �182 4.2.3� The God of History� �184 4.2.4� God Images in Liturgy� �185 4.3� Christology� �189 4.3.1� Liturgical Prayer “to Christ” (ad Christum)—“through Christ” (per Christum)� �191 4.3.2.� Liturgy as Celebration of the Paschal Mystery� �194 4.3.3� Presence of Christ in the Liturgy� �199 4.4� Pneumatology� �204 4.4.1� Liturgy as an Event Effected by the Spirit� �204 4.4.2� Doxology, Epiclesis, Invocation� �206 4.4.3� Laying-on of Hands and Anointing as Demonstrative Actions� �210 4.4.4 The Holy Spirit in the Liturgy’s Poetic Texts� �212 4.5� Liturgy and the Economy of Salvation� �218 4.5.1� Temporal Modes of Liturgy and Participation in the Divine Economy of Salvation� �218 4.5.2� The Dimension of Memory in the Liturgy� �222 4.5.3� The Dimension of Expectation in the Liturgy� �225 4.6� Community Liturgy and Heavenly Liturgy� �226 4.6.1� Heavenly Liturgy as Glorifying God� �226 4.6.2� The Earthly Liturgy’s Participation in the Eschatological Heavenly Liturgy� �227 4.6.3� Earthly Liturgy in Eschatological Tension� �230 4.7� The Person in the Liturgy� �231 4.7.1� Sanctification of the Human Person in the Liturgy� �231 4.7.2� Alteration of Human Reality� �234 4.7.3� “One” in Christ: The Inclusive Image of Humanity� �237 4.7.4� Human Physicality and the Liturgy� �238 4.8� Liturgy and the Christian Life� �240 4.8.1� Remembered Salvation History and Diaconal Action� �240 4.8.2� Liturgical Anticipation of Salvation and Christian Options for Action� �243 4.8.3� The Mutual Relationship of Liturgy and Diakonia� �243 5.� Forms and Methods of Expression in Worship� �247 5.1� Sacred Scripture in the Liturgy� �247 5.1.1� The Significance of Biblical Texts in Liturgy� �247 5.1.2� Biblical Books as Sacred Scripture� �250 5.1.3� The Use of Biblical Texts in Liturgy� �252 5.1.4� The Reception of Biblical Texts in Worship� �257 5.1.5� Intertextuality of Biblical Texts in the Liturgy� �262 5.2� Prayer in the Liturgy� �266 5.2.1� Prayer in the Tension between Life Experience and Faith Tradition� �266 5.2.2� Origins of Liturgical Prayer� �269 5.2.3� God’s “Today” in the Synthesis of Time: Collapsing of Past and Future in the Now� �270 5.2.4� Fundamental Theological Structures of Jewish-Christian Methods of Prayer� �272 5.2.5� Forms and Formulae of Liturgical Prayer� �275 5.2.5.1� Oration (Collect)� �276 5.2.5.2� Structure of the Eucharistic Canon� �277 5.2.5.3� Doxologies� �280 5.2.5.4� Acclamations� �282 5.2.5.5� Litanies� �283 5.2.6� Prayer in Action: Postures and Gestures� �284 5.3� The Language of Liturgy� �287 5.3.1� Language as Means of Liturgical Expression� �287 5.3.2� History of Language in the Worship of the Catholic Church� �293 5.3.3� Liturgical Language at Vatican II and in the Postconciliar Liturgical Reform� �299 5.4� Music and Hymnody in the Liturgy� �307 5.4.1� Singing as an Integral Part of Liturgy� �307 5.4.2� Liturgical-Theological Context of the Question� �309 5.4.3� Music as Art of Time and Space� �310 5.4.4� Determining the Use of Music in Worship� �311 5.4.5� The “Repertoire” of Liturgical Song and Church Music� �313 5.4.6� “Pop Music” and Liturgy� �316 5.4.7� Theological Basis for Singing in Worship� �317 5.5� Sign and Sign-Character of the Liturgy� �320 5.5.1� Sign-Character of Worship� 320 5.5.2� The Liturgical Space� 324 5.5.3� Liturgical Places� 328 5.5.3.1 The Altar� 328 5.5.3.2� The Ambo� 331 5.5.3.3� The Font� 333 5.5.4� Vessels and Utensils� 335 5.5.5� Vestments and Textiles� 338

Reviews

The modest title of this book may mislead the reader. `Introduction' is an understatement; a better description would be a `foundational text' for the field of liturgical studies. Homiletics This is a comprehensive presentation of the scholarly study of Catholic liturgy. It is a suitable textbook for graduate students. It will continue to be useful as a reference book. Catholic Press Association award, third place There is much to praise about this book. Worship Absolutely essential for anyone studying the basics of worship in the Roman Catholic tradition. This valuable survey of the cultural and theological foundation of divine worship gives a contemporary and refreshing perspective to the most sublime work of the Church. Catholic Library World For the first time, this important work by prominent German liturgists Albert Gerhards and Benedikt Kranemann has been made readily available to English-speaking readers. True to the tradition of Liturgical Press, which has brought significant liturgical works from European scholars to wider audiences since its founding, Linda M. Maloney offers her translation of an informative and comprehensive volume attending to the history, theology, and pastoral practice of the liturgy. Gerhards and Kranemann's Introduction to the Study of Liturgy provides an excellent foundational resource for those interested in liturgical studies while exposing readers to the best in contemporary German scholarship. Katharine E. Harmon, Assistant Professor of Theology, Marian University This comprehensive volume, written in a very accessible style by two of Germany's foremost liturgical scholars, breaks new ground in the field of liturgical studies and will serve as an indispensable resource for years to come. The authors raise important theological and methodological questions about worship's function within ecclesial life and in the wider context of the ever-changing social and multicultural landscape of the twenty-first century. Keith F. Pecklers, SJ, Pontifical Gregorian University and Pontifical Liturgical Institute Here two renowned scholars, Albert Gerhards and Benedikt Kranemann, attempt to bring together the essential elements for an introduction to liturgical studies. They do so with brilliance. This book should now be considered a work of reference. It is sensitive to contexts and history, written in an interdisciplinary way-in short, essential to its field. Gilles Routhier, Professor and Dean of Theology and Religious Sciences, Universite Laval Quebec, Canada Gerhards and Kranemann not only offer a basis for gathering knowledge about liturgy, but also a sound approach to study it. A valuable and timely contribution to the ongoing efforts to promote the importance of the liturgy at different levels, including theology, the mission of the Church, and people's lives. Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses Richly rewarding for any reader who seeks an ever-deeper appreciation and grounding in the liturgy of our faith tradition. Grace & Truth A crucially important introduction to liturgical studies from two experts in the field. Their collaborative effort succeeds at being both vastly informative and surprisingly succinct; it is rooted in a deep knowledge of historical developments but also in an attentiveness to new ways of inquiring into liturgy. The book is bound to become a foundational text. Teresa Berger, Professor of Liturgical Studies and Thomas E. Golden Jr. Professor of Catholic Theology, Yale Divinity School This text will serve as an important reference in liturgical science for years to come. Professors Gerhards and Kranemann are to be commended for offering us this foundational work, and for reminding us therein that by its very nature, liturgy is never lived in a vacuum but is always in dialogue with and shaped by contemporary culture and society, as the Church continues to grow locally and globally, faithfully in her service to the Gospel of Christ. Ecclesia Orans Not exactly a text book for beginners, it is nevertheless as inviting and absorbing as it is challenging. Anaphora

For the first time, this important work by prominent German liturgists Albert Gerhards and Benedikt Kranemann has been made readily available to English-speaking readers. True to the tradition of Liturgical Press, which has brought significant liturgical works from European scholars to wider audiences since its founding, Linda M. Maloney offers her translation of an informative and comprehensive volume attending to the history, theology, and pastoral practice of the liturgy. Gerhards and Kranemann's Introduction to the Study of Liturgy provides an excellent foundational resource for those interested in liturgical studies while exposing readers to the best in contemporary German scholarship. Katharine E. Harmon, Assistant Professor of Theology, Marian University This comprehensive volume, written in a very accessible style by two of Germany's foremost liturgical scholars, breaks new ground in the field of liturgical studies and will serve as an indispensable resource for years to come. The authors raise important theological and methodological questions about worship's function within ecclesial life and in the wider context of the ever-changing social and multicultural landscape of the twenty-first century. Keith F. Pecklers, SJ, Pontifical Gregorian University and Pontifical Liturgical Institute Here two renowned scholars, Albert Gerhards and Benedikt Kranemann, attempt to bring together the essential elements for an introduction to liturgical studies. They do so with brilliance. This book should now be considered a work of reference. It is sensitive to contexts and history, written in an interdisciplinary way-in short, essential to its field. Gilles Routhier, Professor and Dean of Theology and Religious Sciences, Universite Laval Quebec, Canada A crucially important introduction to liturgical studies from two experts in the field. Their collaborative effort succeeds at being both vastly informative and surprisingly succinct; it is rooted in a deep knowledge of historical developments but also in an attentiveness to new ways of inquiring into liturgy. The book is bound to become a foundational text. Teresa Berger, Professor of Liturgical Studies and Thomas E. Golden Jr. Professor of Catholic Theology, Yale Divinity School

Here two renowned scholars, Albert Gerhards and Benedikt Kranemann, attempt to bring together the essential elements for an introduction to liturgical studies. They do so with brilliance. This book should now be considered a work of reference. It is sensitive to contexts and history, written in an interdisciplinary way--in short, essential to its field. Gilles Routhier, Professor and Dean of Theology and Religious Sciences, Universite Laval Quebec, Canada

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Albert Gerhards, after studies in Innsbruck and Rome, received his doctorate from the University of Trier. Professor of liturgics at the University of Bonn since 1989, he has been active in the broader spheres of church art and architecture, ecumenism, and Christian-Jewish dialogue, and he has served as an adviser to the Conference of German Bishops. Benedikt Kranemann studied Catholic theology, German linguistics, and philosophy at the University of Münster. He began his career as librarian for the German Liturgical Institute, where he became a master of liturgical literature old and new. Since 1998 he has been professor of liturgics in the Catholic faculty at the University of Erfurt.

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