The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Liturgical Theology

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-119-78791-4
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1098 g

The first research-based volume of its kind, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Liturgical Theology is an unprecedented collection of original essays on the meaning, depth, and breadth of liturgical theology. Designed for students, scholars, and practitioners alike, this comprehensive resource situates liturgical theology within the wider scheme of theological inquiry to present an expansive and interdisciplinary overview of the rapidly growing field.

Contributions by established and emerging scholars examine liturgical theology’s historical development, methodologies, key literature, and future directions. Both an introduction to the field and a starting point for further research, the Companion covers all essential aspects of liturgical theology, ranging from foundational topics such as liturgical ecclesiology, hermeneutics, linguistics, and sacramental services to emerging scholarship in womanist liturgical theology, traumatic liturgy, and liberation theology.

Bringing together essays by a diverse and balanced panel of scholars representing more than a dozen denominations, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Liturgical Theology is the ideal text for seminary and college courses on liturgical theology, the history of worship, and practical theology, and a must-read for theologians of all disciplines.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taylor, Porter C

Williams, Khalia J

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliche Spiritualität, Christliche Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöses Leben und religiöse Praxis
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors x

Foreword xiv

Introduction xvi
Porter C. Taylor and Khalia J. Williams

I. Liturgical Theology: What It Is 1

1 What Is Liturgical Theology?: One North American Lutheran View 3
Gordon W. Lathrop

2 Liturgical Theology and the Trinity: The Mission, Vision, and Values of the Church and the Christian Life 15
Neal D. Presa

3 The Liturgical Strange Wisdom of Dusty Shoes: Some Reflections on Liturgical Anthropology for “Post-Truth” Times 29
Jill Y. Crainshaw

4 Methodology and Liturgical Ecclesiology 40
Ronald Rienstra

5 Jewish Liturgical Theology: Knowing and Loving God 61
Steven Kepnes

6 Liturgy, Apocalypse, and Practice: Reflections on Mystagogical Instruction 76
Catherine Pickstock

7 Marmion’s Meditations on the Mysteries of Christ as an Incentive for Liturgical Theology Today 89
Joris Geldhof

8 Feminist Liturgical Theology: A Dynamic, Evolving Process 107
Janet Walton

9 A Womanist Liturgical Theology: Sacred Practices and Embodied Resistance 117
Khalia J. Williams

10 Knowing God by Liturgically Addressing God 129
Nicholas Wolterstorff Copyrighted Material

II. Liturgical Theology: What It Does 149

11 Birthing New Liturgies: A Historical Account of the Churching of Women and a Call to Revision and Revival 151
Zoe Cordes Selbin

12 A Rite Re-ordered, A Rite Restored: The Churching of a Woman After Childbirth 162
Porter C. Taylor

13 Baptismal Waters: Bookends of Life and Mission 178
Susan K. Wood

14 Confirmation 190
Bridget Nichols

15 Jesus’ Leitourgia and Paschal Mystery: Essential for Eucharist and Liturgical Theology 206
Porter C. Taylor

16 Broken Whole: Christian Reflections on the Eucharistic Fraction in a Comparative-Interreligious Light 228
James W. Farwell

17 May These Vows and This Marriage Be Blessed 242
Julie Gittoes

18 Holy Orders: Sacramental Service to the Church’s Sacramentality 255
Bruce T. Morrill

19 Rethinking the Mystery of Reconciliation in the Liturgical Context 266
Nicholas Denysenko

20 The Healing Ministry of the Church: For the Sick and for the Dying 280
Lizette Larson-Miller

III. Liturgical Theology: Moving Forward 295

21 Trauma, Liturgy, and Traumatic Liturgy 297
Karen O’Donnell

22 Liturgical Aesthetics, Semiotics, and Desiring God: Methodological Horizons in Liturgical Theology 311
Timothy P. O’Malley

23 Decolonizing Preaching as a Liturgical Act 326
Sarah Travis

24 Disabling Liturgical Theology 338
Rebecca F. Spurrier

25 Joy and Suffering in Liturgy 351
Armand Léon van Ommen

26 Liturgical Theology and the Liturgical Life of the Syro-Malabar Church 364
Sr. Maryann Madhavathu

27 Liturgeography–The Law of the Land as the Law of Liturgeographical Theologies 379
Cláudio Carvalhaes

28 Liturgical Theology and Postcolonialism 393
Kristine Suna-Koro

29 In the Beginning Was Song … 409
Becca Whitla

30 Engraved Upon Our Hearts: The Creeds in Worship 424
Amy C. Schifrin

31 Encountering Christ: A Womanist Exploration of Chauvet’s Symbolic Exchange in Communion 440
Khalia J. Williams

32 A Praise and Worship Theology of Music: The Tabernacle of David as Typological Prism 458
Adam A. Perez

Index 472

Über Autor(innen)

PORTER C. TAYLOR is Rector of St. David’s by the Sea Episcopal Church in Cocoa Beach, Florida, and Affiliate Assistant Professor of Christian Worship at Fuller Theological Seminary. He is Contributing Editor of We Give Our Thanks Unto Thee and his first monograph, A Re-Introduction to Liturgical Theology, will also be published by Wiley Blackwell in 2025.

KHALIA J. WILLIAMS is Associate Dean of Worship and Spiritual Formation, Associate Professor in the Practice of Worship, and Co-Director of the Baptist Studies Program at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. She is the co-author of A Worship Workbook and the co-editor of Theological Foundations of Worship.