{"title":"Washed to the Edges: Renewing the Practice of Footwashing","authors":"Joshua Zentner-Barrett","doi":"10.1177/00393207221111619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00393207221111619","url":null,"abstract":"The footwashing ritual on Maundy Thursday is often greeted with a mixture of emotions by congregations of all kinds. Neither ordinance nor sacrament, it is one of the more puzzling practices of the church. Its unique appearance in the Gospel of John sets up Jesus’ glorification on the cross—and calls Christians to the same. This paper—in four sections—examines the footwashing as a rite of passage, drawing on the ritual theory of Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner. The first section offers a study of the theological implications of John 13:1–20. In the second section, these implications are examined in the context of the ritual's liturgical history. The third section introduces certain ritual theories and uses the Johannine passage to exemplify them. Finally, the fourth section discusses this analysis in relation to the church's liturgical practice, specifically its connection to baptism. The relationship between baptism and footwashing offers insights into ways of making the ritual into a transformative, liminal encounter with God, rather than just a performance.","PeriodicalId":375371,"journal":{"name":"Studia%20Liturgica","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130252362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Deesis on Van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece: Its Potential for a Liturgical Theology Today","authors":"J. Geldhof","doi":"10.1177/00393207221111562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00393207221111562","url":null,"abstract":"The core argument in this article is that it is meaningful and revealing to look at a world-famous medieval piece of art, in this case, the Ghent Altarpiece, to raise questions relevant for contemporary liturgical theology. The article starts with an evocation of where and how the Altarpiece is today exhibited for the public, and continues by elucidating the historical context for which it was created. This is followed by a brief interpretation of the Altarpiece's complex iconographic program showing how a focus on the Eucharist sheds light on the whole. The assertion is then made to argue that the central figure on the upper level of the opened polyptych is not God the Father, as is often held, but the Son of God. The major argument for this relies on the fact that the three central figures on the upper level together constitute a deesis, as often found in the Byzantine tradition of icons. Mary, the Mother of God, and Saint John the Baptist pray for humankind to Jesus Christ in his eschatological capacity of king, ruler, and judge. If and inasmuch as this is the case, this observation gives rise to intriguing questions for liturgical theologians, in particular questions related to the ways in which the connections between the earthly and the heavenly liturgy are to be understood.","PeriodicalId":375371,"journal":{"name":"Studia%20Liturgica","volume":"29 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128983517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Body as the Offering Gift in the Performance of the Liturgy of the Hours in the Malankara Syrian Liturgical Rite","authors":"Reni Mathew","doi":"10.1177/00393207221111582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00393207221111582","url":null,"abstract":"A worshiper as both corporeal and spiritual being cannot confine their prayers only to minds and hearts. However, on the other hand, it is also to be expressed through the worshiper's physical body. The integrity of the liturgical act and prayer is not only by one's vocal pronouncement but also “by” and “with” one's body. The human body and mind are fitted with a diversity of intellectual and sensual capacities. Thus, Liturgy is expressed orally and takes shape in bodily postures and gestures. This paper explores the traditional components of liturgical gestures and poses in the performance of the Liturgy of the Hours in the Malankara Syrian/West Syrian liturgical tradition. Further, it investigates the use of non-verbal language and its symbolic meaning in the Liturgy of the Hours. Finally, this paper seeks answers to the following questions: based on the performance of the Liturgy of the Hours, can we say that liturgical anthropology is rooted in Kinaesthetic? How does the book of the common prayer contribute and explain the human body as a gift of God and an offering back to God? This study explores the given topic from a liturgical-theological perspective. This approach guarantees and inspires the necessity to preserve and promote the artistic movement and gestures in the Liturgy of the Hours.","PeriodicalId":375371,"journal":{"name":"Studia%20Liturgica","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125313785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘In Procession Before the World’: Spectacles of Faith Outside the Walls of the Church","authors":"Lizette Larson-Miller","doi":"10.1177/00393207221111561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00393207221111561","url":null,"abstract":"The phrase “ in procession before the world ” is undoubtedly familiar to many. It is drawn from Origen ’ s Exhortation to Martyrdom, written in 235, and describes the public witness of Christians to the glory of God through their willingness to be condemned to death for their faith. The verbal and visual image of this ‘ procession before the world ’ was re-introduced with the 2001 monograph publication of Robin Darling Young ’ s lecture at Marquette University, entitled In procession before the world: martyrdom as public liturgy in early Christianity . In borrowing Origen ’ s phrase and focus on martyrdom as witness to faith, Darling Young stressed the public nature of martyrdom as a type of public liturgical sacri fi ce in which the word of Jesus and his kingdom was confessed and acted out, and an offering made that repeated his own. If the Eucharist of the early Christians was a kind of substitute sacri fi ce, then the martyr was an imitative one. When the eucharist was still private, not open to non-Christian view, the martyrs ’ sacri fi ce was public and dramatic. 1","PeriodicalId":375371,"journal":{"name":"Studia%20Liturgica","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129136628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mixed Media: The Assembly's Theologia Prima of Resistance to Its Place of Prayer","authors":"Bryan Cones","doi":"10.1177/00393207221111563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00393207221111563","url":null,"abstract":"Many liturgical assemblies celebrate in spaces purpose-built for the worship of a different age. While financial and other constraints limit the possibility of complete reordering and renovation of these buildings, assemblies can nevertheless creatively engage their inherited architecture and discover new encounters with the living God. This paper explores how active resistance to the built environment can be a juxtaposing act of primary liturgical theology that interacts with the received liturgies of past assemblies and proposes new patterns for prayer even in inhospitable spaces.","PeriodicalId":375371,"journal":{"name":"Studia%20Liturgica","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127674347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Domestic Liturgies in Time of Lockdown: A Survey to Orientate Post-Covid-19 Liturgical Ministry","authors":"A. Join-Lambert","doi":"10.1177/00393207221112183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00393207221112183","url":null,"abstract":"Based on a survey of 1,200 people in France and Belgium on their ritual practice during the period of lockdown due to COVID-19 (Spring 2020), the author highlights the major importance of eucharistic liturgies broadcast by the various media and followed by many of the faithful, with the theological and pastoral questions that this raises. He notes above all the small but nevertheless significant proportion of domestic liturgies in small locked down groups, whether encouraged or not by their pastors, which give space to certain creativity at the same time as to the Church's liturgical tradition. This observation leads him to question the major challenges of a liturgical and sacramental pastoral ministry geared towards developing and encouraging the assumption of responsibility by the laity for their prayer and liturgical life, beyond and complementary to the Sunday Eucharist, within their communities and more particularly in their family context.","PeriodicalId":375371,"journal":{"name":"Studia%20Liturgica","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132472363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reframing Liturgical Theology Through the Lens of Autism: A Qualitative Study of Autistic Experiences of Worship","authors":"A. L. Van Ommen, Topher Endress","doi":"10.1177/00393207221111573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00393207221111573","url":null,"abstract":"The way autistic people experience worship services is typically different from the majority, non-autistic church population. These autistic ways of experiencing worship, however, are mostly disregarded in practical and in liturgical theology. This leads not only to exclusion of autistic people from the worshiping congregation, but both the church and liturgical scholarship miss out on the opportunity to enrich its worship practices and theology through the diversity offered by autistic participants. This article presents the results of a qualitative study involving thirteen in-depth interviews with autistic people, summed up in three main themes: the experience of worship, community, and encountering God. The ensuing theological reflection on these themes argues that the indispensability of autistic worshipers to the body of Christ, and the theological evaluation of the “normalcy,” are key principles for reframing liturgical theology through the lens of autism.","PeriodicalId":375371,"journal":{"name":"Studia%20Liturgica","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125636192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Présence, Visage, Lumière - L’assemblée Liturgique Comme Icône","authors":"Julie Sauvé","doi":"10.1177/00393207221082458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00393207221082458","url":null,"abstract":"Les espaces liturgiques aménagés par Jean-Marie Duthilleul peuvent être qualifiés d’aniconiques. Pourtant, une étude approfondie de la théologie qui les sous-tend fait prendre conscience que Duthilleul ne rejette pas la question de l’image dans ses espaces, mais la déplace. En effet, l’attention qu’il porte à la forme de l’assemblée, à la disposition des participants dans la liturgie, aux visages de ceux-ci et à la lumière qui les éclaire, manifeste le souci de prendre au sérieux la présence du Christ au milieu de son peuple rassemblé pour prier et chanter les psaumes (cf. Sacrosanctum Concilium 7). Or, ces notions de présence, visage et lumière relèvent précisément de la démarche de l’iconographe. Il est donc possible de considérer que Duthilleul envisage l’assemblée liturgique comme une icône.","PeriodicalId":375371,"journal":{"name":"Studia%20Liturgica","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129095769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Presence, Face, and Light: The Liturgical Assembly as an Icon","authors":"J. Sauvé","doi":"10.1177/00393207221084538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00393207221084538","url":null,"abstract":"Architect Jean-Marie Duthilleul can be reproached with leaving out images in his layout of liturgical spaces. However he may only be tackling the issue in a different way. Indeed the way he fits the assembly in the liturgical space can remind us of the way icons are painted. In this study I will try to see if this hypothesis has any grounding by first recalling the norms concerning liturgical space and images, then by scrutinizing Duthilleul's approach to liturgical space and then by comparing it with that of an iconographer from three specific points of view : presence, face and light.","PeriodicalId":375371,"journal":{"name":"Studia%20Liturgica","volume":"394 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132312116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Liturgy as Essentially Poietic","authors":"François Cassingena-Trévedy","doi":"10.1177/00393207221081302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00393207221081302","url":null,"abstract":"The Christian liturgy is far more than a simple mobilization of a diverse range of artistic expressions in service of its ordinary performance; in fact, the liturgy is in essence a poiesis of the faith. Nor does this poiesis function as a system in harmony with Christian dogma and ethics, because in many regards it transcends these other two approaches. In the midst of the contemporary questioning concerning faith and life, believing and living, the centuries-old poiesis represents an invaluable resource. Truth alone cannot be imposed, nor should it be. More than ever, the symbolic translation of the faith, or to put it in other words, its aesthetic mediation, as expressed in its communitarian practice, will prove itself worthy of faith.","PeriodicalId":375371,"journal":{"name":"Studia%20Liturgica","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134141769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}