Approaching to the threshold of mystery liturgical worlds and theological spaces

Approaching the Threshold of Mystery brings two recently estranged strands of theology back together, to explore the same 'liturgical worlds' and to chart 'theological spaces'. The editors have assembled a formidable group of scholars from systematic and liturgical theology with the express purpose of examining the mystery of the liturgy with both expert perspectives in mind. The result is thirteen essays that return to a more 'synoptic' theology, seeing speculative and liturgical approaches as united together for a common purpose, and ultimately approaching the same mysterious, sacred reality. In today's fragmented world, this approach is sorely needed, and although many postmodern authors point out the need for healing this division, this volume actually attempts to bridge the disciplinary divide by placing specialists within the same prayerful 'space', oriented towards something greater than what is merely enacted in human words and deeds. Cover -- Titel -- Impressum -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Foreword -- Liturgy, Theology, and the Crisis of History - Clearing Space for Liturgical Theology -- 1. Liturgical Spaces: On the Edge of the Sacred and the Secular -- Fifty Shades of Grey? Contemporary Churches as Lived Liturgies that Mediate Mysteries -- Liturgy as Sacramental Mystery - Incarnating Grace in the Space of Worldly Vulnerability -- 2. The Liturgical Mediation of the totus Christus -- When Christ Speaks in Us - The "Whole Christ" and the Mediation of Mystery within the Liturgy -- "Becoming What You See" - Augustine's Mystagogia of Deification -- 3. The Eucharistic Center of the Liturgical Field -- „Das große Sakrament der Vereinigung" - Franz Anton Staudenmaier's Eucharistic Theology -- Language, Structure, and Sacrament - Reconsidering the Eucharistic Theology of Edward Schillebeeckx -- 4. Looking Beyond the West and the Roman Rite -- Mediating the Mystery of Forgiveness and Reconciliation - Subukkono, the Service of Peace in the Malankara Rite -- Recapturing the Mystery-Captured by the Mystery - African Eucharistic Prayers in the Roman Rite -- 5. Liturgical Commotion in Eastern Europe -- The Mystery of Divine-Human Cooperation in Freedom and Creativity - An Example of Liturgical Life from the Russian Diaspora in France -- Attempts to Use the Vernacular Language in the Catholic Liturgy in the Czech Lands in the 1920s -- 6. The Liturgy Enters Society Exploring its Social Relevance and Existential Value -- When Liturgy Empowers - Rutilio Grande, S.J. and the Church of El Salvador -- Cruciform Salvation and Emergent Probability - The Liturgical Significance of Lonergan's Precept -- Personalia -- Buchinfo