“All you have created rightly gives you praise”

Re-thinking Liturgical Studies, Re-rooting Worship in Creation

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  • Teresa Berger Yale Institute of Sacred Music & Yale Divinity School

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https://doi.org/10.25365/exf-2022-1-1

Schlagworte:

Creation, Liturgy, Eucharist, Traditio Apostolica

Abstract

This essay challenges interpretations of Christian worship that have constricted the understanding of who worships in starkly anthropocentric ways. In conversation with some hitherto largely ignored early Christian ritual texts, the essay seeks to return liturgical studies to an earlier, arguably more foundational and primordial interpretation of worship, one that re-roots worship in principio, i.e., in God’s primordial activity in creation. Recovering this understanding of worship is driven by contemporary realities, namely life (and worship) on a planet now clearly in peril, a peril that is anthropogenic no less. 

Autor/innen-Biografie

Teresa Berger, Yale Institute of Sacred Music & Yale Divinity School

Teresa Berger is Professor of Liturgical Studies at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School and Thomas E. Golden Jr. Professor of Catholic Theology, New Haven/Connecticut (USA)

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2022-06-12

Zitationsvorschlag

Berger, T. (2022). “All you have created rightly gives you praise”: Re-thinking Liturgical Studies, Re-rooting Worship in Creation. Ex Fonte – Journal of Ecumenical Studies in Liturgy, 1, 5–29. https://doi.org/10.25365/exf-2022-1-1

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