Ron Anderson
2121 Sheridan Rd
Evanston, IL60201
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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.
FRIDAY JANUARY 6
10:30a Introductions
JORIS GELDHOF – "The place of baptism on being and becoming Christian in postmodern cultures." Respondents: WALT KNOWLES and ED FOLEY
1:30p Discussion of Robert Neville, The Truth of Broken Symbols. Respondents: RON ANDERSON and BRIAN BUTCHER
3:30p WALT KNOWLES – "Burying Mrs. Murphy: Theologia Secunda – contemporary sense and historical avatars"
NINNA EDGARDH – a presentation drawing on her recent book Worship in Time. Worship life in Church of Sweden 1968-2008
SATURDAY JANUARY 7
9:00a MELINDA QUIVIK – "Engaging Space: A Liturgical Undertaking"
1:30p JENNIFER LORD – "A Liturgical Hermeneutic for Preaching: Explorations"
Planning for 2013
Our work this year will include “A Social Analysis of Liturgical Performance” by Gunnfrid Ljones Øierud and “Patristic Liturgical Reasoning” led by Walter Knowles and M. Kate Weber.
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.
(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