{"id":30121,"date":"2015-05-13T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=30121"},"modified":"2021-11-12T15:58:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T21:58:55","slug":"this-issue-of-studia-liturgica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/13\/this-issue-of-studia-liturgica\/","title":{"rendered":"In This Issue: <i>Studia Liturgica<\/i>, May 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Lizette Larson<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s going on in the world of international ecumenical liturgical conversations? One way to answer the question is take a look at the most recent writings of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/societas-liturgica.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Societas Liturgica<\/a>. <\/em>Volume 44 of <em>Studia Liturgica <\/em>has just come out, a double volume which includes presentations from the 2013 Congress held in W\u00fcrzburg, Germany. The meetings of <em>societas<\/em> are thematic, and the focus in 2013 was \u201cLiturgical Reforms in the Churches,\u201d timed to align with the 50th anniversary year of the promulgation of <em>Sacrosanctum concilium. <\/em>Here are a few of the topics in the first part of the volume \u2013 just enough to entice you to read more!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Liturgical Renewal through History <\/em><\/strong><strong>by Martin Kl\u00f6chener<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Martin Kl\u00f6chener teaches liturgy at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and reviewed liturgical renewal through history via four case studies. His conclusions are several, including the reality that every reform of the liturgy brings a disruption to and a critique of existing liturgical practices and customs. These conclusions are themselves a critique of the \u201corganic growth\u201d stance in which liturgy is believed to follow its own time and development and needs no intervention, by ecclesial authorities or other. \u201cTo renew the liturgy means to find the best possible way\u2026to place oneself under God\u2019s Word.\u201d Vatican II brought the disruption of a life-giving tension; \u201cthe challenge to live a unity in the liturgy while recognizing legitimate multiplicity\u2026\u201d Kl\u00f6chener gives insight into the reality of ongoing reform and the tensions between academic and episcopal authority that is present in German Roman Catholicism in a particularly inculturated and historically informed way.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Liturgical Reform and Life in Christ <\/em><\/strong><strong>by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Poulet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Poulet teaches liturgy at the Universit\u00e9 Catholique de l\u2019Ouest, in Angers, France and draws from the French Roman Catholic perspective to get at what are the essential links between liturgy and ethics. She moves to 20th century ethicist, Xavier Th\u00e9venot, to view liturgy not just as the catalyst for ethical behavior, a common perspective, but rather to think of \u201cthe possible precedence of the ethical gesture over liturgical celebration.\u201d In the end, her proposal is that because both liturgy and ethics are theology, emerging as clear disciplines in the 20th century, both are \u201cin charge of signifying the mystery of Christ, the Paschal Mystery, in history.\u201d They are not sequential as much as a balanced exchange, in which liturgy as \u201c<em>praxis <\/em>of life in Christ\u201d should be considered as an ethical act. Both are, in the words of Bernard Capelle, opportunities to \u201cconfuse one\u2019s own life with [Christ\u2019s].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Liturgical \u201creform\u201d in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some Observations on Worship, Language and Culture <\/em><\/strong><strong>by Cas Wepener<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cas Wepener teaches at the University of Praetoria in South Africa, and serves as an ordained minister in the Dutch Reformed Church there. He is passionate about the need to hear the voices of African Christians, especially with regard to preaching and worship in relation to scripture. For North Americans, Europeans and others, the moral and cultural world of the Bible is increasingly foreign, and liturgical preaching is often about bridging these very different worlds. But for many Africans the world of ancient scripture is not that far from contemporary daily reality; \u201cmiracles, demons, exorcisms, dreams and prophecies\u201d are the stuff of everyday life. In an interesting challenge, Wepener asks why we come to worship \u2013 what are we looking for? For Africans, the answer is pretty straightforward \u2013 \u201cto be healed\u201d and to gain assistance with the practical challenges of everyday life, including financial issues. How do these very different worlds of Christian expectation and experience talk to each other with mutual respect? What is the bridge and what are the ties that bind us together?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Liturgical \u201cReform\u201d in the Syro-Malabar Church: Observations on Context, Culture, and Text <\/em><\/strong><strong>by Sebastian Madathummuriyil<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Finally, Sebastian Madathummuriyil is a Syro-Malabar priest now teaching at Duquesne University. Because of this, he stands in a good place to present the Syro-Malabar diaspora as an example of the tensions that exist in any Christian community trying to bridge the gap between generations and liturgical expectations. In his communities, the bumper-sticker summary of \u201cIndian in culture, Christian in religion, and Oriental in worship\u201d points to the particularly complex issue of a church in union with Rome but not Latin Rite. For contemporary Syro-Malabar Christians, in India and spread throughout the world, the post-Vatican II move to inculturation is tricky. The liturgy has been \u2018restored\u201d not \u201crenewed\u201d to follow its Syrian (Chaldean) form, but that represents neither the diaspora generations living between Indian and North American cultures, nor those who have stayed in India. Madathummuriyil\u2019s presentation points to the much deeper issues of inculturation than the often-debated translation wars. What is the base culture from which the liturgy takes expression? How does cultural liturgical expression emerge from patterns of life more than from the external trappings often associated with multicultural liturgy?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These four brief examples are reflective of the wealth of insights to be gained from international conversations. And, all of them point to the reality that the academic field of liturgy is increasingly interdisciplinary. If liturgy ever did stay \u2018inside,\u2019 talking to itself, it does not and cannot anymore. To \u2018do\u2019 liturgy is to converse with cultural studies, issues of migration and diaspora, language and generational differences, with scripture and received interpretations, with ethics and systematic theology, with history and ongoing tensions between the authority of scholarship and the authority of bishops. If you are new to the field, do not worry that it has all been done \u2013 there is lots still to do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s going on in the world of international ecumenical liturgical conversations? 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