One of the hallmarks of modern society has been a heightened
awareness of human bodiliness in all aspects of life- sexual,
economic, legal, religious, and so on. Academia has also
experienced a heightened awareness of the body. Along with the
academy and wider society, Christian theology and pastoral practice
have sought to take human bodiliness more prominently into account.
However, the ambiguous "career" the body has had in Christian
history and tradition, as well as the serious criticisms leveled by
secular society at the Church's teachings and practices concerning
the body, has made this a challenging task. Bodies of Worship takes
on that challenge. First, it systematically explores the various
bodies engaged in the Church's worship-ecclesial, ritual, personal,
and cultural. It examines each in light of how such humanly
sanctifying work continues Christ's mission in the power of the
Holy Spirit. The five chapters of Part One are purposefully
arranged so they unfold the multivalancy of bodies at worship, thus
displaying a certain theological coherence. Then the four chapters
in Part Two describe and analyze specific liturgical, physical, and
spiritual practices. These chapters offer further insights into the
irreducibly bodily nature of the celebration of the Christian life
as worship of God. The entire work is introduced by means of a
narrative that describes an actual liturgy which took place just a
few years ago. A brief conclusion reflects back across the
landscape of the chapters to the narrative and symbolic basis for
liturgical theology insofar as it is, at origin and end, practical
and pastoral. Chapters and authors in Part One are the introduction
"Initial Considerations: Theory and Practice of the Body in Liturgy
Today," by Bruce T. Morrill, SJ; "The Many Bodies of Worship:
Locating the Spirit's Work," by Bruce T. Morrill, SJ; "Body and
Mystical Body: The Church as Communion," by Bernard J. Cooke; "The
Liturgical Body: Symbol and Ritual," by Margaret Mary Kelleher,
OSU; "Spirituality and the Body," by Colleen M. Griffith; and "The
Cultural Bodies of Worship," by James L. Empereur, SJ. Chapters and
authors in Part Two are "Christian Marriage: Sacramentality and
Ritual Forms," by Paul Covino; "Walking the Labyrinth: Recovering a
Sacred Tradition," by Bruce T. Morrill, SJ, with Leo Keegan; "The
Physicality of Worship," by James L. Empereur, SJ; "Liturgical
Music: Bodies Proclaiming and Responding to the Word of God," by
Bruce T. Morrill, SJ, with Andrea Goodrich; and the onclusion
"Nonsystematic Reflections on the Practical Character of Liturgy
and Theology," by Bruce T. Morrill, SJ. Bruce T. Morrill, SJ, holds
the Edward A. Malloy Chair of Catholic Studies in the divinity
school at Vanderbilt University where he is also Professor of
Theological Studies. In addition to numerous journal articles, book
chapters, and reviews, he has published several books, most
recently Encountering Christ in the Eucharist: The Paschal Mystery
in People, Word, and Sacrament (Paulist Press, 2012). His most
recent book with liturgical Press is Divine Worship and Human
Healing: Liturgical Theology at the Margins of Life and Death
Pueblo/Liturgical Press, 2009).
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