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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... blessed Jesus Christ ! As we come to the setting of the sun and behold the evening light , We praise you Father , Son and Holy Spirit , God ! It is fitting at all times that you be praised with auspicious voices , O Son of God , giver ...
... Blessing . The cross is the unique symbol of Christians : a symbol of the triumph of Christ and of election of Christians ( Rev 7 : 3 ; 9 : 4 ; 14 : 1 ; 22 : 4 ) . The gesture of mak- ing the sign of the cross , tracing it on the ...
... blessing ( by the priest ) . In his authoritative study of gestures , Schmitt devoted a chapter to the hand of God ( La Main de Dieu ) . He shows how God the Father is simply represented in painting and sculpture by a hand emerging from ...
... blessing and elevation of the host ) impressed on the audience the power of Christ and of the priest who handled these holy objects.59 The abun- dance of the gestures and their integration within the official liturgy appear to be the ...
... Blessing and Thanksgiving among the Igbo : Towards a Eucharistia Africana ( Toronto : University of St. Michael's College , 1978 ) . See also V. Fiala , " Les Prières d'Acceptation de l'Offrande et le Genre littéraire du Canon romain ...
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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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