Introduction
PART ONE: LITURGY, ENACTMENTS, AND SCRIPTS
1: What is Liturgy?
2: On Following a Liturgical Script
3: With One Accord: The Communal Dimension of Liturgical
Enactments
4: On Bended Knee: the Bodily Dimension of Liturgical
Enactments
5: What Are Those without Faith Doing in Liturgical Enactments?
PART TWO: LITURGY AND SCRIPTURE
6: On the Liturgical Reading and Singing of Scripture
7: Liturgical Repetition and Reenactment
8: Liturgical Commemoration
9: The Liturgical Present Tense
PART THREE: GOD IN THE LITURGY
10: God's Liturgical Activity
11: Does God Know What We Say to God?
PART FOUR: LITURGY, LOVE, AND JUSTICE
12: Liturgical Love
13: Justice and Injustice in Christian Liturgies
Nicholas Wolterstorff is Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, Yale University. He is the author thirty books, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and former president of the American Philosophical Association.
Philosophers of religion have classically engaged with topics such
as God's existence and attributes, the problem of evil, and the
question of miracles. Ritual, in contrast, has often been viewed as
the preserve of religious studies scholars. In this dense but
thoughtful collection based on work produced over several decades,
Nicholas Wolterstorff corrects both of these assumptions by
bringing strictly philosophical tools to bear on Christian liturgy.
The Yale philosophical theologian attends to actions and texts, and
in so doing endorses the turns to religious experience and to
language that characterize contemporary philosophy of religion.
*David Grumett, Ecclesiology*
This book is provocative, instructive, and should achieve the
author's intention of catalyzing a new research program ... Acting
Liturgically will be an essential guide
*James M. Arcadi, Reading Religion*
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