Acting Liturgically - Philosophical Reflections on Religious Practice

This book is a philosophical study of the liturgy and what liturgical agents actually do, rather than focusing on their formative and expressive functions.

List of contents

• Introduction


• PART ONE: LITURGY, ENACTMENTS, AND SCRIPTS


• 1: What is Liturgy?


• 2: On Following a Liturgical Script


• 3: With One Accord: The Communal Dimension of Liturgical Enactments


• 4: On Bended Knee: the Bodily Dimension of Liturgical Enactments


• 5: What Are Those without Faith Doing in Liturgical Enactments?


• PART TWO: LITURGY AND SCRIPTURE


• 6: On the Liturgical Reading and Singing of Scripture


• 7: Liturgical Repetition and Reenactment


• 8: Liturgical Commemoration


• 9: The Liturgical Present Tense


• PART THREE: GOD IN THE LITURGY


• 10: God's Liturgical Activity


• 11: Does God Know What We Say to God?


• PART FOUR: LITURGY, LOVE, AND JUSTICE


• 12: Liturgical Love


• 13: Justice and Injustice in Christian Liturgies

About the author

Nicholas Wolterstorff is Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, Yale University. He is the author thirty books, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and former president of the American Philosophical Association.

Summary

This book is a philosophical study of the liturgy and what liturgical agents actually do, rather than focusing on their formative and expressive functions.

Additional text

Review from previous edition This book is provocative, instructive, and should achieve the author's intention of catalyzing a new research program ... Acting Liturgically will be an essential guide

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Wolterstorff, Nicholas (Noah Porter Professor Emer Wolterstorff, Nicholas (Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology Wolterstorff, Wolterstorff Nicholas
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9780192894229
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289422-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, Philosophy, RELIGION / Philosophy, Religion & beliefs, Religious issues & debates, Philosophy of religion, Religion and beliefs, Religious issues and debates