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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... 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 ritual gestures performed in initiation involve suffering ...
... erectness and the various motions of the hand , has been preserved in the West as the privileged gesture of the presiding priest reciting the Eucharistic Prayer . - Genuflexion , Kneeling , and Prostration . These gestures 21.
... priest at ordination from Carolingian times , and not to the introduc- tion of unleavened bread . The priest's hand blesses , makes holy , and handles holy things ; it must not be compared with the hands of lay people . Women were first ...
... priest became a real tragedian . For the satisfaction of the elite , these gestures were also rationalized . For example , Cardinal Lothaire could give a theologico - mathematical justification for the twenty - five signs of the cross ...
... priests who accom- panied the Portuguese traders in the West Coast and Central Africa were simple extensions of their familiar parent sacred space.67 The priests were not carrying a prophetic message to change their ma- rauding ...
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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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