Turning Towards the Lord: Orientation in Liturgical Prayer - Softcover

Lang, Uwe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0898709865 ISBN 13: 9780898709865

Verlag: Ignatius Press, 2005

Über diesen Titel

Reseña del editor:

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.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Ignatius Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0898709865
• ISBN 13: 9780898709865
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 156