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Zusatztext Hull’s historical narrative convincingly demonstrates that well before the Second Vatican Council, the Vatican’s growing theology of its own power led it to efforts to forcibly standardize liturgy across the Roman Communion in both the East and West...an important contribution to our historical understanding of liturgical change. Informationen zum Autor Associate Professor Geoffrey Hull is a philologist and linguist who has taught and researched European and Pacific languages and cultures at several Australian universities since 1978. He has long been concerned with the liturgical and cultural problems resulting from the reforms of the Second Vatican Council. Vorwort A critical assessment of the Liturgical Reform after the second Vatican Council that seeks the origins of failure in pre-conciliar developments. Zusammenfassung An assessment of the liturgical reform after the second Vatican Council that seeks the origins of failure in pre-conciliar developments. It integrates biblical! patristic! historical! dogmatic and philosophical questions with liturgical study in ways faithful and sympathetic to classical liturgical enquiry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Introduction 1. A New Law of Prayer 2. The Heart of the Church 3. Western Wisdom 4. Rational Worship 5. The Primacy of Peter 6. Piety and Power 7. The Idol of Uniformity 8. Peter's Rome or Caesar's? 9. From Tradition to Obedience 10. Reformed Catholicism 11. Respectable Religion 12. The Cost of Belonging 13. A New Law of Belief? 14. Pax Americana 15. The Great Hijack 16. Ruins in the East 17. The Art of Double Standards 18. The Reign of Confusion 19. Felix Culpa? Bibliography Index
