Volume III: The Eucharist contributes to the reflection on the meaning and purpose of the eucharistic celebration. It also offers to teachers and students of liturgy a handbook for studying this subject according to a system based on historical development, theology and doctrine, liturgical texts and traditions in both East and West, and pastoral considerations. Articles and their contributo…
Volume IV: Sacraments and Sacramentals contributes to a deeper understanding of the nature and purpose of sacraments and sacramentals and leads the reader to a more critical appreciation of Vatican II decrees and what the postconciliar reform has implemented. This fourth volume opens with a review of the basic liturgical notion of sacraments and sacramentals and then examines them according to …
Recent study of the Gospels has produced some surprising challenges to the historicity of the stories surrounding Jesus' birth and resurrection. There is skepticism about the star of Bethlehem, the magi, and the census, skepticism about the angels at the tomb and the manner and time of Jesus' appearances. What then about the more fundamental issues that touch on Christian faith? Was Jesus conce…
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…
Father Oscar Lukefahr, a leading expert on Catholic teaching, has created a user-friendly guide to the Catechism. It provides a summary of the Catechism's content, explains difficult issues, and draws attention to areas of special importance -- all in Father Lukefahr's popular, easy-to-ready style!