This series of annual lectures was begun in 1969 under the auspices of the Marquette University Department of Theology. This 1993 lecture is the twenty-fourth in the series. Gerald G. O Collins, S.J., professor of fundamental theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, delivered the 1993 lecture at Marquette University on April 14, 1993. Father O Collins was born in Melbourne, A…
What concepts must one have in order to understand and explain the nature and purpose, the plan and actualization, and the relational character of the liturgy? Volume 2: Fundamental Liturgy addresses this question in three parts—epistemology, celebration, and human sciences—which develop the foundational concepts of the liturgy. It leads the reader to a deeper understanding of the liturgy b…
More than forty authors from Asia, Africa, Latin America, North America, and Eastern and Western Europe have contributed to the Handbook. Many are professors and graduates of the Pontifical Liturgical Institute in Rome. Each author, while drawing material from liturgical tradition and from ancient, medieval, and modern sources, writes also from a particular research and personal interest in a s…
The final volume in the Handbook for Liturgical Studies series, Volume V: Liturgical Time and Space contains the concluding material for an integral study of the liturgy. It opens with a preliminary notion of time and space, before discussing in detail three types of liturgical celebrations on which time and space have a direct and particular bearing. The first of these is the Liturgy of the Ho…
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My hope is that this book might contribute in a modest way to the clarification of what theologians like to refer to as "the problem of faith and history." As is so often the case with such sweeping references, this problem is really not one but many. Of these many problems, none has caused more consternation and anxiety in the breasts and minds of Christian believers than the application of cr…