Holy ground : a liturgical cosmology / Gordon W. Lathrop.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lathrop, Gordon W., 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liturgics.

Physical Description:

xi, 237 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2003]

Summary:

This latest work from leading liturgical theologian Gordon Lathrop explores the extent to which the central symbols and interactions of Christian liturgy yield, for their participants, a new proposal for their understanding and experience of the world. In the process, it considers various kinds of world-making, the diverse maps, and the differing senses of "cosmology" in which we all live. Finally, the book examines how certain liturgical reforms can contribute to a refreshed sense of ecological ethics--to a Christian sense of the holiness of the earth itself. Readers: Liturgists and liturgical scholars; seminary students; clergy

Contents:

Cosmos: Liturgical World-Making: Hole in the heavens [Burning Bush]: Biblical Reorientation in the Universe

The Cardinal Directions: Liturgical Reorientation

Walking on holy ground: Liturgical Spirituality

Maps: Liturgical Ethics: Baptism and the cosmic map [Boundaries, Outsiders]

Eucharist and Earth-care [the Blue Planet]

Sunday, assembly-house, sky [Pascha, and Sky-Map]

One Is Holy: Liturgical Poetics: Antiliturgica: On the Ritual-Making of False Worlds

The Unmapped: Bread in the Wilderness

One is holy [Tree of Life]: Liturgical Theology, Liturgical Cosmology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0800635906

OCLC:

52921592