Contents
Foreword ix
Prologue xiii
Part I
Chapter 1:
Worship and the Mystery of God's Action in the World 3
From Liturgical
Movement to Liturgical Reform: 1909–1969 6
Theological
Issues and Liturgical Renewal in the Mid-Twentieth Century 11
Chapter 2: The
Church as Totus Christus: A Renewal of
Sacramentality and Proclamation 19
Semmelroth:
Word and Sacrament as Indispensable Expressions of the Nature
of the Church 20
Rahner: The
Church as the Abiding Presence of Christ, the Primal
Sacramental Word of God 27
Schillebeeckx:
Sacramentality as a Human, Personal Encounter with the Risen
Christ 44
Part II
Chapter 3: The
Dynamism of the Liturgy of the Word as a
Sacramental Event: Insights from New Historicism
on the Text and
Its Context 67
Liturgical
Proclamation as a Complex Interchange of Grace 67
New
Historicism: The Event as a Social Text and the Literary Text as a Social Event
71
Chapter 4:
Reader-Response Criticism and the Liturgical Assembly as Communitas Verbi 129
The Shift from
a Dynamic Text to the Reading Process as a Way of Understanding the Sacramental
Characteristics of Proclamation 129
The Reader
"Reading" as the Chosen Focus in the Interrelationship between Text,
Reader, and Context 132
Chapter 5: The
Holy Preaching: A Sacramentality of the Word as
"Fulfilled in Our Hearing" 161
The Possibility
of a Next Step: Taking Luther and Calvin as a Primary Source for a Richer
Understanding of the Sacramentality of Proclamation in the Roman Catholic
Liturgical Tradition 178
"The Holy
Preaching": The Sacramentality of the Word and the Mission of the Church
183
Bibliography
189
Index 199
