In the field of liturgical theology, there is a common understanding that the prescriptive theological claims of theologians do not often match the descriptive, lived reality of worshippers. Put differently, there is a gap between the “primary” theological activity of worship and the formal “secondary” theology of the academic liturgical theologian. Within this interstice lie the liturgical-theological articulations of “ordinary,” non-specialist worshippers. This project argues that liturgical theology has not focused upon the human subject to a sufficient standard and proposes the method of liturgical biography as a descriptive and analytically rich avenue to construct liturgical theologies. Liturgical biography utilizes longitudinal oral interviews and personal journal entries, supported by ethnographic fieldwork, to describe the lived reality of the “ordinary” primary theologian (the worshipper) engaging in worship and liturgical-theological reflection. In addition to a methodological proposal, this project offers and analyzes the liturgical biographies of two worshippers who attend the New York City campus of Hillsong Church, a global Pentecostal megachurch-turned-denomination. Chapter One discusses the theoretical underpinning to liturgical biography, incorporating the concept of the rhizome developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Liturgical biography is needed because worship is too rhizomatically complex for the universalizing and prescriptive claims of liturgical theology. Chapter Two provides a working history and liturgical theology of Hillsong Church rendered from Hillsong’s primary sources (i.e., books, sermons, song lyrics, blogs). Chapters Three and Four examine the personal histories and liturgical-theological claims of these two “primary theologians” who attend Hillsong New York City, whose claims are then placed in conversation with liturgical-theological interlocutors and other allied fields of discourse. These chapters are “co-constructed” insofar as the primary theologians’ voices take the lead, but the researcher employs the thematization and organization of the materials. Their liturgical theologies demonstrate the “gap” between primary and secondary theology, elucidate the rhizomatic complexity of worship, and offer unique contributions to liturgical theology, especially by giving voice to the underrepresented perspectives of Pentecostals and Evangelicals. Chapter Five concludes the project by arguing in favor of liturgical biography as a viable method for liturgical theology and further theorizes its ecumenical import. / 2021-07-25T00:00:00Z

This dissertation is a critical study of the paradigm of Liturgical Theology. Focus in this systematic inquiry has been on the Russian school with the focal point in the works of Alexander Schmemann, who was active in the late 20th century. The main question of the thesis concerns the relation between theory and practice in Liturgical Theology.                       It is claimed that the relation between theory and practice corresponds to the relation between ritual action and communicative action. The former concerns the identity founded on the unavoidable alterity immanent in life, but also transcending life through a holistic encounter with life, which enables us to express a holistic attitude to life and the entire world. The latter concerns the equally unavoidable rationalization of life which gives rise to a continuous atomization of life through science and the process of acquiring facts and data.                       The thesis makes use of different theories for the reaching of an explanatory theory in connection to theory and practice. Foremost the Theory of Communicative Action in the works of Jürgen Habermas and the re-interpretation of disclosure by Nikolas Kompridis is used. It is claimed tthat ritual action is connected to a primary disclosure attached to otherness with the intention of revealing the identity of the Ecclesia. Without identity, we are left with a never-ending debate and a continuous atomization where every answer exponentially provokes more questions. Communicative action then is connected with a secondary co-disclosure with the intention for the reaching of mutual understanding, making subjects accountable and responsible. Without communicative action we are bound on a long walk into the never ending sea of being. The missionary imperative in the Ecclesia is dependent on the co-existence of ritual action and communicative action.

[pt] Na última ceia, com seus apóstolos, Jesus lega para toda a humanidade a celebração memorial da salvação de sua páscoa redentora. A Igreja, desde seus primórdios, sente-se como herdeira deste legado mantendo vivo, de forma ininterrupta, o cumprimento da ordem de iteração do Senhor: fazei isto em memória de mim. A celebração da Eucaristia constitui o núcleo central da liturgia da Igreja, em torno do qual orbitam todos os seus momentos de oração. Além disso, pela ação do Espírito Santo, na liturgia, a Igreja é constituída e se manifesta. Em tudo isso, o Espírito Santo ocupa papel central, que não pode, de forma nenhuma, ser relativizado ou esquecido. Tais fatos ressaltam com que gravidade a Igreja é chamada a crescer sempre mais na compreensão do mistério de Cristo, e na sua missão de conduzir os fiéis a uma participação mais ativa e consciente. Este trabalho intenta realizar um estudo das fórmulas oracionais utilizadas para celebrar a Eucaristia, ressaltando a ação do Espírito Santo e a sua dinâmica eclesiogenética no gesto litúrgico. A metodologia da pesquisa é predominantemente mistagógica. Os textos da liturgia serão cortejados com destaque, como voz de autoridade para ensinar. Na realização de uma mistagogia da Eucaristia, a dinâmica do Espírito Santo e a geração da Igreja serão ressaltados, a fim de que se faça um autêntico estudo pneumático-mistagógico, isto é, uma pneumatologia que se manifeste como uma epicletologia eclesiogenética. / [en] At the last supper, with his apostles, Jesus bequeaths to all humanity the memorial celebration of his Redeeming Passover. The Church, from its beginnings, feels a truly heir to this legacy, keeping alive, uninterruptedly, the fulfillment of the Lord s iteration order: do this in memory of me. The celebration of the Eucharist constitutes the central nucleus of the Church s Liturgy, around which all her moments of prayer revolve. Furthermore, through the action of the Holy Spirit, in the Liturgy, the Church is constituted and manifests itself. In all of this, the Holy Spirit occupies a central role, which cannot, in any way, be relativized or forgotten. These facts emphasize how seriously the Church is called to grow ever more in the understanding of the Mystery of Christ, and in his mission to lead the christians to a participation more active and conscious. This work intends to carry out a study of the prayer formulas used to celebrate the Eucharist, highlighting the action of the Holy Spirit and its ecclesiogenetic dynamics in the liturgical action. The methodology of the research is predominantly mystagogical. The liturgy texts will be courted prominently, as an authoritative voice to teach. When performing a mystagogy of the Eucharist, the dynamics of the Divine Pneuma and the generation of the Church will be highlighted, in order to make an authentic pneumatological-mystagogic study, in other terms, a pneumatology that manifests itself as an ecclesiogenetic epicletology.

[pt] A teologia litúrgica tem se interessado por reunir os conceitos de mistério, mistagogia e mística. Nosso trabalho quer contribuir para avançar os debates atuais. Para isso, pesquisamos a noção de mistério segundo a teologia desenvolvida nos artigos segundo, quinto e sexto da constituição sobre a sagrada liturgia do Concílio Vaticano II. Para a teologia conciliar, o mistério é a salvação do Pai, efetivada pelo Filho, comunicada pelo Espírito Santo, através da igreja em sua dupla missão: anúncio e celebração. Depois, apresentamos o trabalho de recuperação e atualização da experiência mistagógica no transcurso dos últimos anos. A mistagogia atual é abordada em chave catequética (catequese mistagógica e iniciação cristã), litúrgica (teologia litúrgica) e espiritual (mística litúrgica). Finalmente, nos dedicamos à compreensão do fenômeno da mística cristã em consonância com as noções teológico-pastorais do conceito de mistério e de mistagogia. A mística litúrgica cristã é aquela na qual os iniciados experimentam na sua vida a força comunicativoterapêutica do mistério pascal de Cristo. A conclusão obtida é que o trinômio mistério-mistagogia-mística, por serem indissociáveis, precisam penetrar e se consolidar na teologia e práxis eclesial. / [en] Liturgical theology has been interested in bringing together the concepts of mystery, mystagogy and mysticism. Our research wants to contribute to advance current debates. Therefore, we researched the notion of mystery according to the theology developed in the second, fifth and sixth articles of the Constitution on the sacred liturgy of the Second Vatican Council. Conciliar theology understands mystery as the salvation of the Father, accomplished by the Son, communicated by the Holy Spirit, through the church in its double mission: proclamation and celebration. Then we present the work of retrieving and updating the mystagogical experience over the last few years. The current mystagogy is approached in catechetical (mystagogical catechesis and christian initiation), liturgical (liturgical theology) and spiritual (liturgical mystic) view. Finally, we relate the understanding of the phenomenon of Christian mysticism in line with the theological-pastoral notions of the concept of mystery and mystagogy. Christian liturgical mysticism is one in which the initiates experience in their lives the communicative-therapeutic force of Christ s paschal mystery. The conclusion is that the mystery-mystagogymystical trinomial, because they are inseparable, needs to penetrate and be consolidated in ecclesial theology and praxis.

[pt] Pessoas reunidas sob uma convicção religiosa comum, para o exercício de alguma atividade cúltica, é fato recorrente nas mais diversas tradições religiosas. Para o cristianismo, entretanto, a reunião dos cristãos alcança um significado de todo particular e reveste-se de uma responsabilidade ímpar. Ela é sacramento – sinal evocativo, mas, ao mesmo tempo, experiência daquilo que é evocado – da própria salvação. Sua realidade está tão entranhada na trama do acontecimento salvífico, que não lhe cabe ser considerada à parte, nem é possível conhecê-la verdadeiramente por uma razão fechada às possibilidades da fé. Esta dissertação propõe-se, então, a perseguir e desenvolver as indicações que apontam para uma teologia da assembleia litúrgica, tendo em vista o lugar que, desde o Concílio Vaticano II, vem sendo reservado à realidade assembleal. A impostação da pesquisa é histórico-salvífica e sacramental: reunindo elementos de teologia bíblica e de eclesiologia litúrgica, conectados por incursões no quadro histórico, nosso trabalho apresenta a assembleia como lugar mistérico onde se revela e consuma o desígnio divino de salvação. Ao celebrar o memorial da Páscoa de Cristo e os outros sinais irradiadores da graça do mistério pascal, a assembleia manifesta e ratifica sua condição sacramental e sacerdotal, ministerial e participativa, contingente e teologal, histórica e escatológica. Responde, finalmente, àquele chamado trinitário soprado na criação, verbalizado no Sinai e encarnado no Cristo. / [en] People gathered under a common religious belief, to the exercise of any cultic activity, is a recurring fact in various religious traditions. For Christianity, however, the meeting of the Christians reaches a very particular significance and a special responsibility. It is the sacrament – an evocative sign and, at the same time, experience of what is evoked – of salvation. Its reality is so ingrained into the net of the salvific event, it cannot be considered separately, nor is it truly known by a reason closed to the possibilities of faith. Then, this dissertation proposes to pursue and develop the indications that point to a theology of the liturgical assembly, considering the place that has been destined to the assembleal reality. The approach of our research is historical-saving and sacramental: bringing together elements of biblical theology and liturgical ecclesiology, connected by incursions into historical context, our work shows the assembly as the mysterical place where is revealed and consummated the divine plan of salvation. Celebrating the memorial of Christ’s Passover and the other signs of the Paschal Mystery, the assembly expresses and confirms its sacramental and priestly, ministry and participative, historical and eschatological condition. Answers, finally, the Trinity’s call, blown in creation, verbalized in Sinai and embodied in Christ.

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[pt] A vida de Jesus de Nazaré é um mistério, desde a concepção até a sua ascensão. Na sua paixão, morte, ressurreição e glorificação o mistério de Jesus Cristo é clarificado e torna-se o núcleo central da fé cristã. No mistério pascal o desígnio salvífico de Deus se realizou uma vez por todas com a morte redentora do seu Filho, Jesus Cristo. Jesus venceu o sofrimento, o pecado, a morte e abriu um caminho de vida plena para homens. Primeiramente no Antigo Testamento temos o termo pesah, (passagem) para a festa da páscoa e depois no Novo Testamento as comunidades cristãs do século I a III, passaram a entender páscoa como o mistério de Cristo. Este mistério compreende toda a história da salvação, que tem seu ápice em Jesus Cristo, sua encarnação, sua morte, sua ressurreição gloriosa e depois, na espera feliz de seu retorno. As comunidades faziam memória da imolação de Jesus na cruz, o ato salvífico primordial. A crucificação de Cristo era entendida, pelos primeiros cristãos, como início da sua glorificação. Esta linha histórica, contínua e progressiva do desígnio de Deus para a humanidade e o fundamento bíblico de mistério, são as bases nas quais se elabora o conceito de mistério pascal, no século II. A teologia patrística, entre os séculos III a IV, reflete o mistério pascal de Cristo com foco nas dimensões: história salvífica, eclesial e sacramental. Anos mais tarde, um movimento litúrgico retoma a teologia com base nas fontes bíblico-patrísticas e proporciona vigor fontal à liturgia. Pio XII lentamente incorpora a teologia do mistério, pensada pelo movimento litúrgico, aos documentos pré-conciliares. Neste movimento progressivo, a teologia litúrgica do mistério pascal se concretiza na constituição dogmática Sacrosanctum Concilium que estabelece o mistério pascal como cume e fonte da liturgia. / [en] The life of Jesus of Nazareth is a mystery, from conception to his ascension. In his passion, death, resurrection and glorification, the mystery of Jesus Christ is clarified and becomes the central core of the Christian faith. In the paschal mystery, the salvific plan of God was fulfilled once and for all with the redeeming death of his Son, Jesus Christ. Jesus conquered suffering, sin, and death and opened a path of full life for men. First, in the Old Testament, we have the term pesah (passage) for the Easter feast, and then in the New Testament the Christian communities from the 1st to the 3rd century came to understand Easter as the mystery of Christ. This mystery includes all of salvation history, which has its culmination in JesusChrist, his incarnation, his death, his glorious resurrection and then in the joyful waiting for his return. The communities remembered the immolation of Jesus on the cross, the primordial saving act. The crucifixion of Christ was understood, by the first Christians, as the beginning of his glorification. This continuous and progressive historical line of God s plan for humanity and the biblical foundation of mystery are the bases on which the concept of the Paschal Mystery was elaborated in the second century. Patristic theology, between the 3rd and 4th centuries, reflects the paschal mystery of Christ with a focus on the dimensions: salvific, ecclesial and sacramental history. Years later, a liturgical movement takes up the theology based on the biblical-patristic sources and gives fontal vigor to the liturgy. Pius XII slowly incorporates the theology of mystery, thought up by the liturgical movement, into pre-conciliar documents. In this progressive movement, the liturgical theology of the paschal mystery is concretized in the dogmatic constitution Sacrosanctum Concilium, which establishes the paschal mystery as the summit and source of the liturgy.

The aim of the thesis is to investigate theological understandings in conjunction with the baptism of children and to develop such of these understandings as can be seen to be “trovärdiga” (credible or trustworthy) in the contemporary context of Church of Sweden. The theoretical point of departure is taken in a hermeneutical theological method of correlation between interpretation of “Situation” and interpretation of “Tradition”. A trustworthy theology emerges in a critical and/or constructive encounter between the interpretation of Tradition and the interpretation of Situation. Such an encounter can be established within an area of problematics. Three problem areas are identified that are present in the Swedish context of baptizing children in Church of Sweden. A) The first problem area concerns the theological interpretation of the relationship between those baptized and those not in a pluralistic society. B) Theological interpretation of “destruction” and what the theological tradition names original sin. How can a trustworthy baptismal theology be developed that takes suffering, oppression, the ecological crisis, seriously in the present situation and at the same time handle or solve the problems related to the theological tradition of original sin? C) How can a trustworthy baptismal theology solve or handle the problems related to a dichotomous construct of the relationship between God and the world? Four types of material are analyzed: sociological and statistical material, ecumenical theological resources for interpreting baptism, two different orders of baptism at use in Church of Sweden and baptismal liturgies celebrated according to these orders of baptism, and primarily Oriental Orthodox traditions of the Baptism of Jesus. Several understandings are developed and among them three over-arching concepts found fruitful for solving or handling the problems concerned: the baptismal tradition connected to the Baptism of Jesus interpreted in the light of A Trinitarian Theology of Creation that understands baptism as an expression of The Mystery of Creation, The Sacrament of Creation . / Kolla att datum 16 oktober blev rätt!Kolla att de tre kursiveringarna på sista avsnittet i abstarct inte flyter samman till en enda (jfr pdf).Gordon Lathrop är professor emeritus från Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, och Yale Divinity SchoolKirsten Busch Nielsen är professor i systematisk teologi vid Köpenhamns universitet (opponenten)

This dissertation is an ecclesiological study, conducted in the form of a case study that examines worship praxis in six parishes in the diocese of Luleå between 1990 and 2009. The specific research problem of the dissertation is whether the organizational changes that took place in connection with the relational change between Church and State in 2000 are reflected in local worship and in church service related decisions in diocese and parishes, and how the concrete relationship between worship praxis and regulations is manifested. The research problem also includes what ecclesiological impact the organizational changes may have had in the studied parishes and what the empirical results can reveal about the ecclesiality of the Church. The dissertation addresses four research questions. In response to the first question: “Are the organizational changes of 2000 reflected in local worship and in worship related decisions in dioceses and parishes and, if so, in what way?” it is noted that organizational change is reflected indirectly in expressions of growing autonomization. In response to the second question "What is the relationship between worship praxis and regulations in the Church ordinance and The Swedish Church manual 1986?” there is a tangible difference between worship praxis and regulations throughout the studied period, i.e. even before the relational change, although the difference over time has increased. Regarding the third question "What impact could the organizational change, associated with the relational change between the Church of Sweden and the State, have had on the ecclesiologies in the worship praxis which the studied parishes represent and hold?” I have not found that the new order has affected, in any direct way, the parishes’ implicit ecclesiologies during the time span covered by the study. Rather, it seems that the Church ordinance that was established at the time of the relational change has reinforced an already existing implicit ecclesiology where the parishes are considered to be autonomous. The fourth question "How can the empirical result be interpreted theologically with regard to its implicit ecclesiology, and what does that say about the ecclesiality of the Church of Sweden?” The theological interpretation of autonomization indicates an overall "immanent ecclesiology", which can be visualized in current praxis in the diocese of Luleå. The ambition that the Church of Sweden despite organizational change in the year 2000 would be the same also indicates a similar implicit ecclesiology. This is because the Church was not thought to change its identity despite being subjected to a revision in form. The study shows that the arsenal of theories and the methodical approach have implications for how much can be clarified and that different ways of studying the Church should be combined. The present study is an example of this by the study's abductive approach and exploratory character, which have allowed both interaction between praxis-related empiricism and theory and interaction between descriptive analysis and hermeneutic interpretation. The study also shows that “ordo-related theories” may be applicable to the study of the Church as an organizational structure.

[pt] A presença de Deus se evidencia no mundo de diversas formas. Ela se tornou ainda mais manifesta quando Deus irrompeu na história e selou com Israel uma aliança. Amorosamente escolhido, o povo da antiga aliança pôde experimentar a cuidadosa presença do Senhor através de inúmeros sinais-sacramentos. Segundo o relato das Escrituras e o testemunho das primeiras comunidades cristãs, essa mesma presença se fez carne em Jesus Cristo, o Verbo eterno do Pai. Por meio de gestos e palavras, Jesus revelou aos homens a presença de Deus e, na potência de seu Espírito, lhes tornou membros de seu Corpo, a Igreja. As primeiras gerações cristãs, conscientes de serem herdeiras da fé do antigo Israel, procuravam - sobretudo em suas assembleias litúrgico-cultuais - experimentar e testemunhar, diante do mundo, o Cristo ressuscitado, sinal privilegiado da presença de Deus. Nele, por meio dele e com ele, doravante, o ser humano e o restante da criação carregam em si a potência de serem sacramento da presença do eterno no tempo. Segundo Santo Agostinho, isso se aplica, de modo particular, ao mistério e à missão da Igreja - corpo-presença de Cristo na história. Diz o santo Doutor que, no regime da nova aliança, este no qual vivemos, convém falar na presença e ação de um Cristus totus. Trata-se do Cristo todo inteiro: o Cristo - plenitude e primogênito, por meio do qual todos os seres são reconciliados com Deus - e seu Corpo, a Igreja, cooperadora de Cristo em seu agir reconciliante. O Concílio Vaticano II, por sua vez, reverberando o pensamento do Doutor da Graça, consegue captar e reconhecer que a Igreja tem um importante papel no processo de reconcilação-deificação do criado. A Igreja, sacramento de Cristo, poderia, então, ser chamada de Corpus totum. E tudo em vista do mais profundo e original anelo do Deus-Amor: ser presença geradora de comunhão em tudo o que existe. / [en] The God s presence in the world can be felt in many ways. Thy presence has become more and more evident when God showed in the history and seal an alliance with people from Israel. Chosen with love, the old people could feel the Lord s presence through many sacramentals-signals. According to the Scriptures and the first Christians testaments, the Lord s presence became flesh in Jesus Christ, the God s eternal Word. Through the things Jesus had made and His words, He showed the human been the God s presence and the Power of the Holy Spirit, and made them part of His Body, the Church. The first Christians, knowing been the old Israel faith heritage, tried - mainly in their cultural-liturgical meetings, feel and testimony to the world, the resurrection Christ, real signal of God s presence. In Him, though Him and with Him, from now on, the human been and the rest of the creation bring in the power of the Eternal God forever. According Saint Agostin, this means, in particular way, the mystery and mission of the Church - presence-body of Christ in the history. The Doctor saint said, in the new alliance, that we live, it could be good to say about the presence and action of Christus totus. That is, The whole Christ: The Christ - plenty and firstborn through all of us are reconciliate to God - and His Body, The Church, that helps the reconciliation act. The Second Vatican Council, at a time, reflecting the Doctor of Grace, recognize that the Church has an important hole in the reconciliation - sanctification of the creature. The Church, Christ s sacrament, could be called the Corpus totum. Considering the more profound and original enlace of God-Love: bringing union among everything that exists.