Tag: Eastern Liturgy
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Preaching as Liturgical Art: Part I
LUCAS CHRISTENSEN — The point of the image is encounter. This sacred art is meant not merely to instruct the faithful (pace Gregory the Great), but it facilitates communion. This is true of all the liturgical arts—they are all forming an encompassing, diachronic and synchronic image of heavenly worship.
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Brief Book Review: The Euchalogion Unveiled
“The volume…expands our understanding of the ‘mysteries’ of the Church by using older lists of what was considered a ‘sacrament.'”
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Brief Book Review: Invitation to Syriac Liturgy
“Reading a few selections each day from this book impresses the reader with the diversity and commonality of faith expressed by the body of Christ.”
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In What Sense is the Byzantine Rite Eastern?
Liturgical traditions should play no part in today’s dangerous rhetoric of East versus West
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Brief Book Review: Introduction to Eastern Christian Liturgies
Alexopoulos and Johnson synthesize the primary elements that characterize Eastern Christian liturgy as a whole.
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Book Review: Community as Church, Church as Community
“A church is often one of the few places where we experience the gathering and sustaining of community…Community is not easily found anymore in our landscapes.”
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Things I Like About Eastern Christianity (Part 3)
Liturgy as a sacred roleplay in contrast to liturgy as an opportunity to exercise power over others.
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Things I Like About Eastern Christianity (Part 2)
The Christian East has never known a priestly “private Mass.ˮ
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Things I Like About Eastern Christianity (Part 1)
My first attempt to explain what fascinates me about Eastern liturgies.