The Heresy of Formlessness: The Roman Liturgy and Its Enemy (Revised and Expanded Edition)

by Martin Mosebach, Robert Spaemann (Foreword by)

Overview

First published in 2003, The Heresy of Formlessness is already a modern classic, unique for its melding of poetic shimmer and keen observation. Martin Mosebach offers up a compelling defense of the traditional Roman Rite and a searing critique of the postconciliar liturgical reform through which ancient rites were profaned by tone-deaf modernizers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781621383550
Publisher:	Angelico Press
Publication date:	05/18/2018
Pages:	218
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

MARTIN MOSEBACH, born in Frankfurt am Main, studied law, and has published eleven novels, many short stories, essays, poems, scripts for dramas, opera libretti, theater pieces, and radio plays. He is actively engaged in dialogue on contemporary issues through contributions to daily papers & magazines. Apart from many other awards, he was honored in 2007 with Germany's foremost literary award, the "Georg-Büchner-Preis," in 2013 with the "Literature-Award of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation," and in 2015 with the "Goethe-Award of the City of Frankfurt am Main." He is currently engaged in a film project with Rebecca Horn, and his book Subversive Catholicism is forthcoming from Angelico Press.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Foreword by Robert Spaemann xiii

1. Eternal Stone Age 1

2. Liturgy—Lived Religion 11

3. Does Christianity Need a Liturgy? 33

4. “Tear the Images out of Their Hearts”: Liturgy and the Campaign against Images 45

5. Tradition’s Avant-Garde: The Benedictines of Fontgombault 59

6. Liturgy is Art 67

7. Statio: Before Entering the Cathedral 81

8. Kneeling, Standing, and Walking: A Correct Understanding of “Active Participation” 89

9. On the Confiteor of the Old Rite 101

10. Solemn High Mass 105

11. Why Holy Mass Must Be Sung 109

12. The Last Gospel 117

13. A Cathedral in a Nutshell: The Missal of Trent 121

14. “This is my Body”: On Veneration of the Sacrament of the Altar in the Catholic Church 135

15. Revelation through Veiling in the Old Roman Catholic Liturgy 149

16. The Holy Mass Celebrated in Ruins 159

17. On the Occasion of the 90th Birthday of Benedict XVI 175

18. The Procession through the Sliding Door—A Passage from the Novel A Long Night 189