Worship as Body Language: Introduction to Christian Worship : an African OrientationLiturgical Press, 1997 - 369 pàgines Worship sets an assembly in motion movement towards God in response to God's movement towards humans thus creating a resilient and caring community. Worship as Body Language brings the African community's experience of the body and its gestures together with the Christian liturgy, since worship and social action are closely related. The body language" or gestures of praise, adoration, contemplation, ritual dance, and care of the neighbor are meaningful to the ethnic group; African Christians tune into these body motions to express the one Christian faith. In Worship as Body Language, Father Uzukwu details how patterns of African ritual assemblies and sacred narratives have merged with Jewish, gospel, and early Church traditions to create living Christian communities and liturgies. Using a socio-historical method, this book sheds new light on liturgical action and theology, and suggests more transition rituals. It also provides samples of emergent African Christian liturgies that emphasize intense community participation with appropriate gestures. These local liturgies attest to the patristic principle that different customs actually confirm the unity of our faith in Christ. Scholars teaching and researching the foundations of the liturgy and liturgical inculturation, graduate students, and those organizing workshops on the regional, diocesan, or parish level will find Worship as Body Languagea ready handbook on the liturgy. It is also a useful textbook for introducing college students and seminarians to the anthropological, historical, and theological dimensions of the liturgy. Elochukwu E. Uzukwu, CSSp, ThD, lectures in liturgy and African theology in seminaries and Catholic universities in Nigeria, Congo, Zaire, and France. He is the author of Liturgy: Truly Christian, Truly African,and the editor of Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology. " |
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... act in such a way is equally to act out of tune . Such an aggression be- comes one more impact of the universe on the aggrieved group . The group reacts with adequate gestures to protect its interest . Rather , human groups may learn ...
... acts or intentions of spirits and hu- mans ; the hands of the priest are opened ( iwa aka aja ) to offer effective sacrifices ; the tongue of the ozo ( elder ) is cleansed ( isa ile ) to speak only the truth and thus to do justice . The ...
... act of worship . Yet , if the Ibo's highest ex- pression of himself is in finance , then it is no doubt that he should sanctify it in this way . " " 72 The Methodists were ahead of the Roman Catholics by adopting Union Igbo in the ...
... act of killing one of its own kind ( the weakest , the scapegoat ) . Humans are so dominated by violence that the ritual murder was necessary in order precisely to arrest the spiral of violence . That is why sacrificial rituals ...
... acts , but they are not polar opposites . Bloch states the difference as follows : EVERYDAY SPEECH ACTS : Choice of loudness Choice of intonation All syntactic forms available Complete vocabulary Flexibility of sequencing of speech acts ...
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Foundation Stories MythSymbols | 84 |
Endnotes | 201 |
Passage Through Life and Its Ritual Hallowing | 220 |
The Inculturation of Sacramental Celebration of Christian Initiation | 229 |
Endnotes | 256 |
Emergent Creative Liturgies in Africa | 265 |
Endnotes | 317 |
Bibliography | 325 |
Index | 347 |
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Authentic Worship: Hearing Scripture's Voice, Applying Its Truths Herbert W. Bateman Previsualització limitada - 2002 |