Tag: Lucas Christensen
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Preaching as Real Encounter: Part III
LUCAS CHRISTENSEN — For these preachers, the liturgical celebration with its ritual of anamnesis has, in fact, made them participants in the vision of Christ’s divine light. Our ritual even today, with its art, movement, and hymnody brings us into the same real participation.
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Preaching as Aural Iconography: Part II
LUCAS CHRISTENSEN — Preachers in the East Roman world (so-called “Byzantines,” a term they never used of themselves) inherited a rhetorical practice rooted in the classical tradition. Among the engaging techniques developed in this tradition was ekphrasis.
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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.