Presidential Address, Societas Liturgica Congress XXV

Abstract

M theologians have pointed to the importance of narrative in Christian tradition – storytelling – as catechesis, as theology, as liturgy, particularly biblical narrative juxtaposed with a ritualizing gathering of people. “Ancient texts are made, in assembly, to say a new thing,”1 as our former president Gordon Lathrop has so eloquently said to us many times. So, I would like to begin this evening with a story of an interview I had three years ago.