What Does Worship Say?

“When the church, in its liturgy, announces the redemption of the world and the new creation, it seems to be insisting that what it does cultically with words and actions corresponds to ‘what God is doing’ in the whole of creation. Can that claim be made cognitively meaningful …? Let us assume that...

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Main Author: Snook, Lee E. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publ. 1968
In: Theology today
Year: 1968, Volume: 24, Issue: 4, Pages: 474-484
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Summary:“When the church, in its liturgy, announces the redemption of the world and the new creation, it seems to be insisting that what it does cultically with words and actions corresponds to ‘what God is doing’ in the whole of creation. Can that claim be made cognitively meaningful …? Let us assume that the Christian liturgical community intends to be doing and representing in a cultic way what is happening in the whole culture and cosmos, and then let us inquire if there are ways of grounding those liturgical acts in, or linking them with, the non-liturgical or ‘ordinary’ structures of human experience so that the liturgy is rendered meaningful.”
ISSN:2044-2556
Contains:Enthalten in: Theology today
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/004057366802400406