Full of Your Glory: Liturgy, Cosmos, Creation

by Teresa Berger (Editor)

Overview

2020 Catholic Press Association honorable mention award for faith and science

This collection of essays explores the rich and diverse intersections between the world of liturgy and the worlds of creation and the cosmos. The intersections highlighted here include biblical, historical, visual, and musical materials as well as contemporary theological and pastoral challenges for worship today. The essays gathered in this volume were first presented at the 2018 Yale Institute of Sacred Music Liturgy Conference and are here made available to a wider audience. These essays are responses to the unprecedented attention to ecological and cosmological concerns, which call for sustained engagement by scholars and practitioners of liturgy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814664568
Publisher:	Liturgical Press
Publication date:	12/05/2019
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Teresa Berger is professor of liturgical studies at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and at Yale Divinity School where she also holds an appointment as the Thomas E. Golden Jr. Professor of Catholic Theology. She is the author, most recently, of @ Worship: Liturgical Practices in Digital Worlds (Routledge, 2018) and editor or co-editor of three previous volumes from the Yale ISM Liturgy Conferences from Liturgical Press.

Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword: Martin D. Jean
Introduction: Teresa Berger
Chapter 1 Naming the World: Liturgy and the Transformation of Time and Matter with Some Highlights from the Question and Answer Session =that Followed Rowan Williams’s Keynote Address: Rowan Williams
 
Part One: BIBLICAL AND HISTORICAL ASPECTS
Chapter 2 “Bless the Lord, Fire and Heat”: Reclaiming Daniel’s Cosmic Liturgy for Contemporary Eco-Justice: Anathea Portier-Young
Chapter 3 “The Firstfruits of God’s Creatures”: Bread, Eucharist, and the Ancient Economy: Andrew McGowan
Chapter 4
Salvator Mundi: Visualizing Divine Authority: Felicity Harley-McGowan
Chapter 5 Night or Dawn? Easter Night in Light of Cosmos and Creation: Duco Vollebregt
Chapter 6 The Six Evenings of Creation in the Hymns of the Roman Breviary: Peter Jeffery
Chapter 7 Rogationtide and the Secular Imaginary: Nathan J. Ristuccia
Chapter 8 The Cosmos and the Altar in Hildegard’s Scivias and Select Sequence Texts: Margot E. Fassler
Chapter 9 Cum angelis et archangelis: Singing a Sacramental Cosmology in the Medieval Christian West: M. Jennifer Bloxam
 
Part Two: THEOLOGICAL-LITURGICAL PERSPECTIVES
Chapter 10 The World as Christ’s Body: Problems and Possibilities: David Grumett
Chapter 11 Fruit of the Earth, Work of Human Hands, Bread of Life: The Ordo Missae on Creation and the World: Joris Geldhof
Chapter 12 Sacramental Theology after Laudato Si’: Kevin W. Irwin
Chapter 13 A Spring of Blessing: Creation and Sanctification in Byzantine Liturgy and Piety: Nicholas Denysenko
 
Part Three: REFLECTIONS ON CONTEMPORARY PRACTICES
Chapter 14 The First of September: Environmental Care and Creation Day: Bert Groen
Chapter 15 Troubled Waters, Troubling Initiation Rites: Mary E. McGann
Chapter 16 Wisdom’s Buried Treasure: Ecological Cosmology in Funeral Rites: Benjamin M. Stewart
Chapter 17 Liturgical Free Association with Symbiopsychotaxiplasm:Take One: Gerald C. Liu
List of Contributors
Index

Editorial Reviews

"With world-class liturgical scholars offering creative, tradition-steeped essays on the ecological imaginaries made and possible in practices of worship, this is a milestone volume."
Willis Jenkins, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Virginia


"Once again, the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale and Liturgical Press have provided us with a rich ecumenical collection of essays drawn from an important colloquium, this one about the manifold ways Christian liturgy locates us on our wounded planet and shapes our understanding of the cosmos. Many of the essays here will become classics, worthy of repeated reference—those on Daniel 3, on bread, on Laudato Sií, on environmental care in Eastern Orthodoxy, and on ‘dust wisdom,' among many other examples. But the magisterial introduction by Teresa Berger, outlining the roots and the sweep of this urgent topic, is itself an important reason to read the book."
Gordon W. Lathrop, Author of Holy Ground: A Liturgical Cosmology, Past-President, Societas Liturgica

"Berger’s introduction is masterful in situating the conference theme within the growing interdisciplinary ecclesial concern for the environment. Her editing is rigorous, with each essay well footnoted, and the book concludes with a subject index that includes biblical references. Recommended to seminary libraries.”
Catholic Library World

"The essays comprising this book provide rich fare for all who see environmental degradation as an issue for faith, theology, and worship.”
Worship

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