The Language of Liturgy : A Ritual Poetics

Jasper, David

SCM Press（2018/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 256 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780334055716
• DDC分類 264.0014

Full Description

How language works in the worship of the church has been vigorously debated during the period of liturgical revision in the twentieth century coming at the end of what is known as the Liturgical Movement.

Focussing upon the Church of England and the Anglican tradition, this book traces the history of 'liturgical language' as it begins in the Early Church, but with particular emphasis upon the English Reformation liturgies, their background in the Medieval Church and literature and their long and varied life in the Church of England after 1662.

Inter-disciplinary in scope, yet rooted in a literary approach, the volume provides a rigorous study of the effect of liturgy upon the theological and devotional life of the Church.

Contents

Part I: The Poetics of Liturgy

1. Poetry and the Language of Prayer and Worship
2. The Poetics of Liturgy
3. A Ritual Poetics and the Demands of Liturgical Language

Part II: Language and Performance in the Liturgy of the Early Church

4. Liturgy and Performance
5. Hippolytus and The Apostolic Tradition

Part III: Medieval and Reformation England

6. Liturgical Language and the Vernacular in Late Medieval England
7. Literature and the Prayer Books of the English Reformation

Part IV: The Alternative Service Book and Common Worship

8. Language and Liturgical Revision in the Church of England
9. The Background to The Alternative Service Book
10. From 1980 to Common Worship
11. Reflections on the Eucharistic Body

Conclusion