Sentences with phrase «liturgical renewal»

Here is an area that awaits to be enriched jointly by liturgical renewal and church renewal.

The recent «liturgical renewal» has focused Presbyterians» attention on what seemed proper in Reformed worship 400 years ago.

Pannenberg has suggested that «the rediscovery of the Eucharist may prove to be the most important event in Christian spirituality of our time, of more revolutionary importance than even the liturgical renewal of our time.

The changes to the performance of the liturgy I experienced at St. Aldate's in the 1990s were part of a broader discussion about the relationship between the charismatic renewal and liturgical renewal.

The house gatherings of the Church in China or the Basic Ecclesial Communities in Latin America, the liturgical renewal, biblical renewal, the revival of the monastic vocation, the charismatic movement, are indications of the renewal possibilities of the Church of Jesus Christ.

Monsignor Martin Hellriegel is celebrated as a pioneer of the liturgical renewal endorsed by Vatican II, but there is no mention of his vigorous criticism of the directions that renewal took after the Council.

On the other hand, the growing interest in liturgical renewal seems to reflect a taste for personal and experiential worship.

And while the strains of the post-Conciliar years (which were also years of tremendous demographic transformation on the American urban / suburban landscape) have tested that claim as never before, there remain, in this, the sesquicentennial year of the erection of the diocese, many impressive signs of vitality in a local church that has been distinguished for its rich ethnic diversity, its identification of parish and neighborhood, its impressive clerical and lay leadership, its self - conscious social and political liberalism, and its sense of itself as the «lead diocese» in matters ranging from liturgical renewal to Christian social action.

John R. Brokhoff's As One with Authority (1989) is a pointed rejoinder to Craddock's As One Without Authority (197 I) Brokhoff an old - fashioned Lutheran who was Craddock's predecessor at Candler School of Theology in Atlanta, exalts the sacrament of the Word (he believes sermons should be longer) and turns back liturgical renewal (Eucharist once a month is plenty) The Word is not something overheard but something overwhelming.

Liturgical renewal within mainline Protestant churches reflects an effort to remedy this deficit.

Last spring my presbytery executive attended a communion at a seminary commencement where liturgical renewal had prompted the serving of a fermented wine — a departure from the school's norm.

For their liturgical life they owe much to the liturgical renewal movement in the Reformed churches of French - speaking Switzerland.

The so - called aggiornamento (bringing up to date) of the Roman Catholic Church was expressed in ecumenical openness, biblical and liturgical renewal and greater consideration of the huge social problems facing the world.

All liturgical renewal, all changes in the education and way of life of priests, all adaptation of the religious orders to contemporary conditions, the activities of mature laymen as well as the frank dialogue with the present world, all these must only serve the love of God and one's neighbour in the unfeigned faith which will always be foolishness and scandal to the wise and prudent of this world.

A step in its direction is a step towards a deeper look at the meaning of liturgical renewal and its musical implementation.

Further, the liturgical renewal of the past half - century has made Protestant worship more similar in form and in spirit to the ancient liturgy that the Orthodox champion and purport to continue uninterrupted.

Liturgical renewal is not just window dressing, but a major force for justice, ecumenism and rethinking of the whole Christian message and mission.

Thus liturgical renewal is an important agent of change in American Protestantism.

Finally, it must be realized that liturgical renewal is not just a changing of worship but is part of a reshaping of American Christianity root and branch.

One such group has focused its attention on worship seeking the deepening of the church's life through liturgical renewal.

Since the book demonstrates so powerfully the case for the return to the pre-Conciliar liturgy, Fr Joseph Fessio, S.J., Editor - in - Chief, Ignatius Press has to temper his own enthusiastic Forward by putting the position of «those who advocate a rereading and restructuring of the liturgical renewal intended by the Second Vatican Council, but in light of the Church's two - thousand - year tradition.»

I will speak briefly about the seven additional emphases noted in the first lecture: orthodoxy, postliberalism, liturgical renewal, multiculturalism, institutionalism, spirituality, and healing.

The twenty - first - century Church owes a lot to twentieth - century German Catholicism: for its generosity to Catholics in the Third World; for the witness of martyrs like Alfred Delp, Bernhard Lichtenberg, and Edith Stein; for its contributions to Biblical studies, systematic and moral theology, liturgical renewal, and Catholic social doctrine, through which German Catholicism played a leading role in Vatican II's efforts to renew Catholic witness for the third millennium.

Not exact matches

At times it may even seem as if the official sanction of a greater liturgical freedom and renewal is already being used to bring about an almost suicidal desacralization.

If I have one criticism it would be that in the section on the modern period there is insufficient mention of the influence of the Oxford Movement and Newman in the 19th century, and of the internal renewal of the Church through such phenomena as the Liturgical Movement of the early 20th century.

She continues: «The justification for the literal iconoclasm in Catholic churches could hardly have been more clearly expressed by Cromwell's Roundheads after they had systematically beheaded every image in the Lady Chapel of Ely Cathedral or smashed all the stained glass windows at Canterbury, although Cromwell's soldiers were undoubtedly responsible for destroying far fewer sacred images than the liturgical «experts» who imposed their views of renewal on the Catholic churches across America.»

The second was the liturgical movement (from which the ecclesio - typical school emerged), which sought a renewal of the Church from the Scriptures and the Fathers.

Nevertheless, St. Aldate's was just one of many Anglican churches whose liturgical life was altered in the wake of the charismatic renewal, especially as it came through John Wimber and the Vineyard churches.

St. Gregory's came into existence in 1978 as an experiment in the renewal of liturgical and parish life.

Thus Psalm 50 would appear to have had its liturgical cultic setting in the repeated ceremony of covenant renewal; and Psalm 24 has long been recognized as a liturgy recited at the temple doors antiphonally between the temple personnel within and the procession of newly arrived pilgrims without.