Turning Towards the Lord: Orientation in Liturgical PrayerIgnatius Press, 2004 - 156 pages Turning towards the Lord presents an historical and theological argument for the traditional, common direction of liturgical prayer, known as "facing east," and is meant as a contribution to the contemporary debate about the Catholic liturgy. Lang, a member of the London Oratory, studies the direction of liturgical prayer from an historical, theological, and pastoral point of view. At a propitious moment, this book resumes a debate that, despite appearances to the contrary, has never really gone away, not even after the Second Vatican Council. Historical research has made the controversy less partisan, and among the faithful there is an increasing sense of the problems inherent in an arrangement that hardly shows the liturgy to be open to the things that are above and to the world to come. In this situation, Lang's delightfully objective and wholly unpolemical book is a valuable guide. Without claiming to offer major new insights, Lang carefully presents the results of recent research and provides the material necessary for making an informed judgment. It is from such historical evidence that the author elicits the theological answers that he proposes. |
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... Position of the Celebrant at the Altar II Direction of Prayer , Liturgy , and Church Architecture in the Early Church I. Facing East : The Christian Direction of Prayer 21 35 35 2 . The Direction of Prayer and the Position of the ...
... position of priest and people as absolutely necessary . More recently the atmosphere has become more relaxed so that it is possible to raise the kind of questions asked by Jungmann , Bouyer , and Gamber without at once being sus- pected ...
... of Buch - Kunstverlag Ettal , Yale University Art Gallery , Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner , Sible de Blaauw , and Institut d'Études Augustiniennes . INTRODUCTION The position of the altar and the direction taken 133 Acknowledgments.
Orientation in Liturgical Prayer Uwe Michael Lang. INTRODUCTION The position of the altar and the direction taken by priest and people in liturgical worship have again become matters for theological debate . This seems a good occasion to ...
... position [ of priest and people at Mass ] , which is also called into question by the experience of community practice.10 Gerhards also observes that present liturgical scholarship is quite favourable to recovering the category of ...
Contents
The Reform of the Liturgy and the Position of the Celebrant at the Altar | 21 |
Direction of Prayer Liturgy and Church Architecture in the Early Church | 35 |
The Direction of Prayer and the Position of the Celebrant at the Altar | 56 |
Liturgy and Church Architecture85 | 67 |
The Common Direction of Liturgical Prayer Its Theological and Spiritual Contents | 89 |
Turning to the LordThe Theological Dimension of Liturgical Practice | 100 |
The position of the celebrant and the sacrificial character of the Mass | 109 |