RT Article
T1 Experiment rond de Tafel. Over Willem Barnards Onderzoek van het Sacramentele
JF Yearbook for ritual and liturgical studies
VO 34
SP 14
OP 31
A1 Postma, Eward
LA Dutch
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1680004328
AB The Dutch poet, minister and essayist Willem Barnard (1920-2010) greatly contributed to the artistic and theological exploration of fundamental questions on sacramentality. This article concentrates on the way Barnard addresses the paradox that sacraments are human acts. It starts out from his explorations of religious drama and argues that they are in Barnards works a key to a sacramentality, in particular of the Eucharist, that is intentionally performed, embodied and experienced. Central to Barnards explorations and a stimulus for his further theological reflection is the establishment of a ‘sacramental lab' in the 1950's (‘Nocturnen'). Barnard thus develops a concept of liturgy as ‘drama' that includes theological reflection on ‘community', ‘participation' and the making of liturgical rituals. Moreover, the artistic perspective of drama enables him to thematize both the continuity and discontinuity between God's acts and human acts.
K1 Sacramentality
K1 Community
K1 Creativity
K1 Drama
K1 Liturgical Performance
K1 Participation
DO 10.21827/5bfeaab84051b