Liturgical Hermeneutics
Mission Statement
The intent of this group is to engage in critical exploration of how we know what liturgical celebrations mean, with a view to learning how liturgy might better work to build a spiritually renewed community. Toward that end, the group will review current understandings of how liturgy means, with attention to pertinent pastoral projects.
Convener
Richard McCarron
Chicago Theological Union
5401 South Cornell Avenue
Chicago,
IL 60615- 5698
Office: 773-371-5512
rmccarron@ctu.edu
2009 Academy Meeting Agenda
This year we will continue our discussions around ways that liturgy means with a paper by Walter Knowles, “Counting Liturgy: Liturgical Aesthetics in Augustine.” Further planning is focusing on a preliminary examination of neurobiology/brain theory and discerning recent works in hermeneutics that the seminar would examine in detail.
2008 Academy Meeting Agenda
(tentative)
R. Anderson and K. Hull, “Semiotics and Music”
B. Butcher, “Hermeneutical Implications of Poetry in Byzantine Liturgy”
L. Hoffman, “Illness and Inculturation: Liturgy as Showing”
S. Sauer, “Chauvet and 'Reading' Ritual”
D. Stosur, “Blessing as Liturgical Action: Structure and Performance”
Number of participants: 15-18
Papers Online
A list of papers developed by members from this seminar will appear here
Previous Seminar Reports
See seminar reports from annual meetings dating back to 2002:
2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002