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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... many opinions on their settlement processes and the generalization of a common belief in Yahweh . But there appears to be some measure of 54 Jewish-Christian Ritual and the Origin of the Community (Church) The Jewish Experience.
... Yahweh cult ( probably the house of Joseph ) . This cult was later generalized , and Yahweh was proclaimed the liberator of Israel.34 We shall discuss this in detail under Israel's foundation story ( chapter three ) . Old Testament ...
... Yahweh , sacrifices are made to Yahweh , Yahweh is consulted through the priest , and the ark of the covenant was once deposited at Bethel . Here , after his schism , Jeroboam installed a cult to rival that of Jerusalem . But Bethel was ...
... Yahweh en- sured the creation and re - creation of the community . The Ritual Constitution of Israel into a People The description of the process of the ritual ... Yahweh their God . The narrative of the revelation of the will of Yahweh 57.
... Yahweh at Sinai is unique . We not only have tradition — histories laid one on top of the other dealing with only one subject , the revelation of the divine will on Sinai — but , as von Rad stresses , this very lengthy narrative ( cov ...
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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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