Worship in communion with creation : recognizing a broader participation / Edited by Melanie C. Ross and Karen B. Westerfield Tucker

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berger, Teresa, honoree.

Ross, Melanie C., editor.

Westerfield Tucker, Karen B. (Karen Beth), 1954- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liturgics.

Creation.

Ecotheology.

Physical Description:

xvi, 341 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Collegeville [Minn.] : Liturgical Press Academic, 2026.

Summary:

"Written in honor of the prolific liturgical theologian Teresa Berger, the essays included in this collection affirm this biblical witness in studies theological, liturgical, and artistic by offering perspectives and examples from Christian antiquity to the present and by identifying ritual and musical expressions from both the Christian East and West. The contributors also consider the cosmic and the earthly, to recognize the heights and the depths of worship in communion with creation. Berger’s 2025 Berakah Award address to the members of the North American Academy of Liturgy is also included." Porvided by publisher

Contents:

Part I. Theological considerations

Theological foundations of creaturely worship / Kathryn Tanner

"We knew water": liturgy between melancholy and hope / Willie James Jennings

Liturgy, ecology, and ethics at the end of the world: toward an apocalyptic liturgical theology / Antonio Eduardo Alonso

Creation, liturgy, and leukemia: decentering the liturgical person withint themselves / Nathan P. Chase

"Across the border": death and the cosmic song / Kimberly Hope Belcher

Part II. Liturgical investigations

"Groaning labor pains": womb imagery and cosmic worship in the Gelasian sacrementary baptismal rite / Phoenix Gonzalez

When creation stills: midnight prayer, bimodal sleep, and the eschatalogical imagination in Eastern Christianity / Nina Glibetić

"It is not the earth that has sinned…": Ritual responses to weather extremes - medieval antiphons concerning drought and excessive rain / Harald Buchinger

Liturgy and the gendered cosmos: Celestial luminaries in Near Eastern Christian thought and prayer / Gabriel Radle

The rogation of the Ninevites: an ecological rite? / Mark Roosien

Recovering the divine ecosystem in the eucharistic prayer: reflections and musings on the theme of creation in the Syrian Orthodox anaphoras / Bryan D. Spinks

The fivefold shape of the Eucharist: abundance, rubbish, and ecology / Andrew B. McGowan

"Are there not twelve hours of daylight?" Observations of synchrony and clock drift in liturgical timekeeping / Benjamin M. Stewart

Part III. Artistic explorations

Flowers, stones, and scorpions: nature and cosmos in Baroque passion settings / Markus Rathey

"Listen to the voices of the earth": creation in hymns by Methodists Dan Damon, Colin Gibson, and Andrew Pratt / Karen Westfield Tucker

Part IV. Teresa Berger: liturgical scholar, theologian, ecumenist, environmental advocate

Teresa Berger's scholarship - an overview / Melanie C. Ross

2025 Berakah Award Address. Liturgical studies on a planet in peril: reconceiving the "cosmic" in worship / Teresa Berger

Works by Teresa Berger

ISBN:

0814689043

9780814689042

OCLC:

1546069864

Publisher Number:

90104376398