{"id":29915,"date":"2015-04-14T13:55:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T18:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=29915"},"modified":"2021-11-12T15:59:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T21:59:16","slug":"this-issue-of-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/14\/this-issue-of-worship\/","title":{"rendered":"In This Issue: Worship<\/i>, April 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

The March issue of Worship <\/em>should at this point be in everyone\u2019s hands. Below you can find abstracts from this issue of Worship <\/em>as well as the list of books that were reviewed. For more information on Worship<\/em>, or to subscribe to the journal, please visit their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Recovering Ancient Ecclesiology: The Place of the Altar and the Orientation of Prayer in the Early Latin Church<\/strong> by Robin Jensen.<\/p>\n

This essay addresses certain current contentions that, from the earliest days, altars were universally located in areas of the church and restricted from the approach (and even view) of the laity and, moreover, that prayer would have been consistently directed to directional East. Instead, this essay argues, on the basis of archeological evidence, that early Christian altars (especially those in the West) often were located well into the center of the church nave and that little documentary evidence supports the directional orientation of prayer, particularly in non-oriented worship spaces. Based on both textual and material evidence, this essay concludes that the laity more likely surrounded the altar during the Eucharistic liturgy and even approached it to receive communion. Such a reconstruction corresponds with Augustine\u2019s argument that the bishop should not regard himself as a mediator between God and the people or physically separate from his congregation during the sacrament.<\/p>\n

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Justification, Worship, and Poor Relief in the Sixteenth Century: A Historical Concern of Contemporary Interest<\/strong> by David Power<\/p>\n

Power\u2019s article looks at the intersection between the Lord\u2019s Supper and the poor in the theology of Martin Luther and John Calvin with an eye to their theologies of justification. The article then looks at the practice of lay confraternities. The ultimate aim of Power\u2019s article is to explore how Catholics and Reformers approached the poor in the sixteenth century, taking into consideration their similarities and differences.<\/p>\n

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Summorum Pontificum<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and Fragmentation in the Roman Catholic Church <\/strong>by Timothy Brunk<\/p>\n

Brunk\u2019s article \u201cSummorum Pontificum<\/em>\u00a0and Fragmentation in the Roman Catholic Church\u201d argues that restoring the liturgy according to the Missal of 1962 short-circuits the liturgical reforms initiated by the Second Vatican Council by operating according to very different understandings of church, assembly, minister and sacrament.\u00a0 He argues as well that Pope Benedict\u2019s hope for \u201cmutual enrichment\u201d between the Ordinary Form and the Extraordinary Form runs the risk, again, of undermining the integrity of the conciliar reforms.<\/p>\n

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Ecological Euchology <\/strong>by Robert Daly, SJ<\/p>\n

Can a Eucharistic Prayer, still within the tradition of Christian anaphoras, also move beyond the “nice-nature” language of traditional Christian poetry and piety, and speak\/sing in the “life-death-life” language expressive of, or at least relevant to the words and concepts of a modern quantum-cosmological, developmental worldview? Daly\u2019s brief article discusses the challenges involved, and tries to craft the draft of such a prayer.<\/p>\n

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The Amen Corner<\/strong> by Gail Ramshaw is a brief treatment of Catherine of Siena and her Trinitarian Praise.<\/p>\n

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Book Reviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n