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 Language a 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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... Testament in Greek terms showing the overriding power of Greek culture in the Greco - Roman world . In the West the emer- gence of upper - class Romans as leaders of the Church , following the decline of the fortunes of the Roman empire ...
... Testament they are considered an attitude of ado- ration ( proskynesis — Matt 4:10 ; Luke 4 : 8 ; John 4:21 , 23 ; Rev 3 : 9 ; 4:10 ; 5:14 ; 7:11 ; etc ) . In the patristic period they were adopted mainly for private prayer . Tertullian ...
... Testament faith and theology insist that the totality of the Exodus experience created Israel and that the birth of Israel was ritu- ally enacted . This experience controlled Jewish life through the liturgy in which the Exodus event is ...
... Testament writings , the story of the beginnings of what later came to be called Church ( ekklesia ) and its worship may lack clarity . Jesus and the movement that took its rise from him were radically rooted in the Jewish way of life ...
... Testament period we emphasize two points : the variations in the ex- perience of assembly in the New Testament and the ritual establish- ment and / or renewal of the Christian community . The key function of ritual in the emergence and ...
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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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