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Guiao, Raymond P. "The narratives of two eucharistic prayers a theological analysis and comparison of eucharistic porayer [sic] II and eucharistic prayer for reconciliation II the through application of the method of narrative criticism /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Sfriso, Massimo. "Liturgy and refugees a proposal of eucharistic prayer /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.
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Lyons, Timothy V. "A case study of the eucharistic prayer enabling participation /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.
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Krisak, Anthony F. "The form of eucharistic prayer a proposal based on Walter Brueggemann's analysis of prayer and narrative in the Old Testament /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.
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Zok, Joachim. "A critical examination of the notion of sacrifice in five contemporary African eucharistic prayers." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.
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Wilbricht, Stephen Sullivan. "A theological analysis of the Roman appropriation of the "Alexandrian" epiclesis in relation to anamnesis and offering in the post-Vatican II eucharistic prayers." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.
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Myers, Susan E. ""Come, hidden mother" Spirit epicleses in the Acts of Thomas /." Tübingen Mohr Siebeck, 2003. http://d-nb.info/985708301/04.
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Ramsey, John David. "The language of sacrifice in the Roman canon of the mass." Washington, DC : Catholic University of America, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.029-0725.
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Malit, Jesus M. "From Berakah to Misa ng Bayang Pilipino exploring the depths of a Filipino eucharistic spirituality through the Pilipino rite /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.
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Moore, Gerard Francis. "The eucharistic theology of the prayers for the communion service of the Lord's Supper of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) 1953-1987 /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.
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Kennedy, Byron David. "The liturgical role of the deacon in the present-day Byzantine Divine Liturgy a description and theological-liturgical inquiry /." Toronto, Canada : University of St. Michael's College, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.119-0001.
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Srikantha, Stephen. "Towards an Anglican Eucharistic Ecclesiology, with special reference to Common Worship Eucharistic Prayer B." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2016. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/towards-an-anglican-eucharistic-ecclesiology-with-special-reference-to-common-worship-eucharistic-prayer-b(f9a04bb4-b030-495e-b992-94462b605944).html.
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Through a semiotic analysis of Common Worship eucharistic Prayer B, this thesis illustrates how the Eucharist shapes the Church’s participation in the life of God in its relation with the rest of creation. In doing so it argues for and displays the complementarity of Anglican Evangelical and Anglican Catholic approaches to eucharistic theology. This thesis begins by highlighting the hallmarks of Anglican ecclesiology and the emphases of Anglican Evangelical and Anglican Catholic eucharistic theologies. It then offers an analysis of the development of the Church of England’s eucharistic liturgies, arguing that Anglicanism’s moderate approach to the eucharistic use of language permits a multi-layered interpretation of the sacramental bread and wine. Using Daniel Hardy’s insights as the theological framework for the analysis of eucharistic Prayer B, this thesis suggests that Anglicanism’s multi-layered eucharistic use of language occurs in the context of the transformation of language through worship as an instance of ‘abductive’ reasoning. Worship ‘moves’ language beyond its capacity to categorise, instead enabling it to become a means of drawing together the fragmented ‘extensity’ of the things of creation into the unitive ‘intensity’ of their creaturely relation to God. In facilitating such a relationship with creatures, language enables the Church’s participation in the life of God in its relation with the rest of creation. The semiotics of John Deely provides the technical framework for the analysis of eucharistic Prayer B. The latter illustrates how the Eucharist can be understood as a focal instance of participating in the life of God, interpreting the prayer as the ‘interpretant’ with respect to which creatures become ‘sign-vehicles’ of their Creator, with whom they are caught up in covenantal relation. The thesis ends by locating this approach to the Eucharist within Anglican eucharistic theology and highlighting its impact on the mission of the Anglican Communion.
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Way, Anthony David, and res cand@acu edu au. "Lift Up Your Hearts:A Musico-liturgical Study of the Eucharistic Prayer of the Roman Rite." Australian Catholic University. School of Arts and Sciences, 2004. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp59.25092005.
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It is a well established fact that the practice of the eucharistic prayer in the roman, rite is seriously underdeveloped. This survey of complete or partially through -composed settings of the eucharistic prayer attempts to shed some light on why and how composers have responded to the wide-spread opinion that the eucharistic prayer is rarely experienced as the high point of the eucharistic celebration as it was intended. Divided into two parts, the study initially considers the official aims and norms of the post-conciliar liturgy, both in general and as they pertain to the eucharistic prayer, noting some tension between the aims and their realisation. Three broad themes are identified for the entire work: ritual structure, the role of music and participation. The texts of the eucharistic prayers are then discussed to see how the official expectations are realised. A survey of the theoretical writings on rnusic and the eucharistic prayer concludes the first part. The second part focuses on over 100 musical settings, both published and unpublished d the eucharistic prayer. After offering a general chronological overview of the music, noting its forces and general characteristics, the music is scrutinised to see whether its various parts are celebrated or submerged by music, the broader shape of the compositions is examined and then a discussion concerning participation issues follows. The use of tabulated data aids the discussion. While acknowledging that there are many ways to evaluate the usefulness of such compositions and that this study does not touch on their actual reception and performance, it is hoped the current work will offer some insights into the variety of existing responses to the challenge of the setting the eucharistic prayer and offer some suggestions as to how this important work may continue.
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Spinks, Bryan D. "With angels and archangels : the background, form and function of the sanctus in the eucharistic prayer." Thesis, Durham University, 1988. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6639/.
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The origin of the sanctus as a constituent element in the eucharistic prayer is one of the unsolved mysteries of Christian liturgy. In a Prolegomena, certain specific older theories are rejected. The use of the qeduasah in Judaism, from its biblical setting to its use in Jewish liturgy and mysticism is examined, and the continuity of these usages in Christian non-eucharlstic contexts is illustrated. From this wider background, the study examines the setting and function of the sanctus in the anaphoras of East and West to the seventh century, showing that the earliest attestations and the most logical use of the sanctus both originate in Syria and Palestine. In the peculiar Egyptian anaphoral family, it is used within Intercessions, and at Rome it appears to be a late fourth century addition, which was never given a logical setting in the canon missae. Possible origins are the Jewish Synagogue berakot, the Jewish mystical tradition, or some biblically-minded celebrants. But these possible origins are better accounted for when a variety of models for early eucharistic prayers is accepted, rather than the single model of the Birkat ha-mazon. The development of the sanctus in later Eastern and Western traditions is examined, noting the proliferation of angelological speculation in West Syria, the innovatory uses of Luther and Cranmer, and the interesting nineteenth century Reformed usage. In modern anaphoral composition it appears to be a sine qua non. Finally, the sanctus is examined in a wider theological context, defending a variety of logical doxological usages, with more than one position in the anaphora, and possibly wider variations of the biblical/liturgical form.
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Way, Anthony. "Lift up your hearts: A musico-liturgical study of the eucharistic prayer of the Roman Rite." Thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2004. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/00c0ec88aa7db08a6006bc9dbb77627cdff1cedb5b255aab864d73abd7baef14/156186/01front.pdf.
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It is a well established fact that the practice of the eucharistic prayer in the roman, rite is seriously underdeveloped. This survey of complete or partially through -composed settings of the eucharistic prayer attempts to shed some light on why and how composers have responded to the wide-spread opinion that the eucharistic prayer is rarely experienced as the high point of the eucharistic celebration as it was intended. Divided into two parts, the study initially considers the official aims and norms of the post-conciliar liturgy, both in general and as they pertain to the eucharistic prayer, noting some tension between the aims and their realisation. Three broad themes are identified for the entire work: ritual structure, the role of music and participation. The texts of the eucharistic prayers are then discussed to see how the official expectations are realised. A survey of the theoretical writings on rnusic and the eucharistic prayer concludes the first part. The second part focuses on over 100 musical settings, both published and unpublished d the eucharistic prayer. After offering a general chronological overview of the music, noting its forces and general characteristics, the music is scrutinised to see whether its various parts are celebrated or submerged by music, the broader shape of the compositions is examined and then a discussion concerning participation issues follows. The use of tabulated data aids the discussion. While acknowledging that there are many ways to evaluate the usefulness of such compositions and that this study does not touch on their actual reception and performance, it is hoped the current work will offer some insights into the variety of existing responses to the challenge of the setting the eucharistic prayer and offer some suggestions as to how this important work may continue.
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Michon, Marie Matthiesen. "Sacrifice, Grace, and Contemplative Prayer in Maurice de la Taille, S.J." Thesis, Boston College, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1371.
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This study retrieves the long-abandoned thought of an early twentieth-century Jesuit theologian, Maurice de la Taille (I872-t933), reassessing his theory of eucharistic sacrifice in light of his theology of grace and contemplation. His major work, the three volume Mysterium Fidei (L921), provides an integrated account of sacrifice, one which responsively embraces the multiple and often controversial aspects of the topic of sacrifice. De la Taille rejects a supercessionist treatment of Hebrew ritual sacrifice; he incorporates a sophisticated theory of sacrifice as sign and gift; and he allows the fullness of theological tradition-scripture, the Fathers (East and West), Thomistic thought, conciliar and papal teaching, and the witness of liturgical prayer and mystical theology to inform his theory of Christian sacrifice. In surprising ways, de la Taille's magisterial work on eucharistic sacrifice forestalls the post-Vatican II liberal anxieties about sacrifice. He decidedly challenges the formidable heritage of sixteenth and seventeenth century immolation-focused eucharistic theology by providing a patristically-rich theology of sacrifice, one that stands rooted in a spirituality of prayer and ascetic practice which cannot be segregated from the ecclesial oblation of Christ's sacrifice. With his focus on the affect and desire of the offerer of sacrifice, de la Taille anticipates the 'subjective turn' that emerged in mid-twentieth century eucharistic theology, and in a way that revitalizes the critical role of ecclesial ritual sacrifice in the transformation of that desireThesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2008
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Theology
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Phillips, Donald D. "A local Christology in a postmodern culture and its representation in forming a new eucharistic prayer for the Anglican Church of Canada." Thesis, Durham University, 2015. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11181/.
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This thesis is generated in response to the significant decline in membership of the Anglican Church of Canada in the latter half of the twentieth century. Based on a reflexive understanding of the interaction of theology and culture, it proposes a local Christology in response to the local (post-modern) culture of the Anglican Church of Canada and Canadian society, as a way to strengthen the proclamation of Christ in contemporary cultures. The development of the notion of culture is explored, particularly utilizing the work of Kathryn Tanner. Building on the work of Clifford Geertz in describing cultures, a semiotic approach based on Robert Schreiter’s work on local cultures is used to establish the premise that all theology is contextual and that culture and theology dynamically interact in a reflexive relationship. In the context of theology being expressed through liturgical texts, the notion of inculturation is introduced and some contemporary examples offered. The typology of H. Richard Niebuhr is used as a contemporary starting point to examine the interaction of Christ and culture, and the description of Christ as the transformer of culture is utilized. This understanding is then examined in light of the culture of the Anglican Church of Canada and the Eucharistic Prayer texts are explored for evidence of being in a reflexive relationship with that culture. Using the work of Hans Frei, a Christology is developed which is congruent with the need to express the person and work of Christ within a cultural frame. The Christologies of the existing contemporary Eucharistic Prayers of the Anglican Church of Canada are examined in light of Roger Haight’s criteria for building local Christologies. The ‘Frei-inspired’ narrative Christology is employed and new Eucharistic Prayer texts are proposed for the Anglican Church of Canada in response to its local culture.
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Morton-Starner, Erica. "The "Mourning Child": Divine and Mortal Absence in George Herbert's English and Classical Verse." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19685.
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The period of tumultuous religious reformation during which George Herbert lived demanded of people a strict adherence to the paradigmatic structures that prescribed the ways in which public displays of religious conviction were to be manifested. The freedom, indeed the necessity, to doubt is taken for granted by the modern reader, but for Herbert it was a matter of spiritual life and death. As country parson, he diligently labored to guide his parishioners, administer the sacraments, and exemplify the “right path.” This persona—reinforced by necessarily performative, faith-demonstrating actions—is continually destabilized by the experience of doubt, which leads Herbert to address his own persistent despair at the absence of God through poetry. His masterful use of the structural and thematic patterns of the Psalms in many of the poems of The Temple draws on the rich tradition of lament in contrast to the prescriptive, ideological agendas of the Book of Common Prayer and the Common Lectionary which privilege faith. The poems demonstrate an extensive knowledge of the epistemological foundations and history of both official Church doctrine and of medieval mystical thought and become a tool for exploring the paradoxes of human existence. His philosophical and rhetorical engagement with the Christological and ecclesiastical theology specific to Dionysian mysticism demonstrates the intensity of Herbert’s preoccupation with Divine absence and his near obsessive search for the ideal apophatic presence, that silent, knowing-unknowing that defines oneness with God. Nowhere are Herbert’s existential dilemmas more evident than in Memoriae Matris Sacrum, a sequence of poems written immediately following the death of his beloved mother, which reveals an inner life of the poet that his more controlled poetic voice of The Temple often conceals. These elegiac poems, written in Latin and Greek, show the poet as a “mourning child” and lay bare his most intimate fears about the constancy of his own faith and the uncertain terms of Christian death and resurrection embodied in the sacred ritual of the Eucharist. The poetic closure often ascribed to Herbert’s poems in fact disguises the nature of spiritual and psychological dilemmas which remain for Herbert persistent and unresolved.
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Redding, Graham Ernest. "The significance of the priesthood of Christ for a theology of prayer in the reformed tradition, with special reference to T.F. and J.B. Torance, and the Eucharistic tradition of the Church of Scotland." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1999. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-significance-of-the-priesthood-of-christ-for-a-theology-of-prayer-in-the-reformed-tradition-with-special-reference-to-tf-and-jb-torance-and-the-eucharistic-tradition-of-the-church-of-scotland(09a090c3-6598-428f-8656-ebb2301f7646).html.
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Smith, Allan Robert. "'Lift up your hearts' : a contribution to the understanding of John Calvin's teaching on the eucharist and its setting within his theology." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/15237.
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This dissertation considers the possibility that, flowing from his broader theological framework and historical background, John Calvin’s eucharistic theology ‘re-invents’ a doctrine where the ‘substance’ (meaning) of the elements becomes the body and blood of Christ, and the believer who receives them is drawn, through understanding, into participation in Christ. The study begins with the historical setting and the second chapter sketches Calvin’s life. Chapter 3 considers epistemology and the impact of classical rhetoric on Calvin’s approach to knowledge. The following chapter considers Calvin’s understanding of our relationship with the Father, and of Christ as Mediator and as means of salvation. Chapter 5 considers the work of the Spirit in nurturing faith, a ‘higher knowledge’, through preparing us for knowledge of Christ and mediating our understanding of and participation in him. In this manner the Spirit acts as an instrument of revelation to enable us to participate in Christ. Chapters 6 and 7 move to consider Calvin’s writing on the Sacraments, their nature as sign and seals of the promise made in Christ, their substance and their role in our participation in Christ and, in the light of the duplex gratia, as gateways to participation. In Chapter 8 Calvin’s teaching is examined in terms of his opposition to the doctrine of transubstantiation, and his understanding of substance is considered. The possibility that Calvin ‘re-invents’ the doctrine is proposed. This is not to suggest that there is a conscious copying of the doctrine, but that through the process of forming his doctrine, using an alternate philosophical framework, Calvin’s understanding bears significant similarities to the doctrine he so deeply opposed. His key opposition to transubstantiation can then be seen to be to the materialist interpretations that impede the ability of the believer to lift his attention beyond the physical elements to the divine offer they represent. The study concludes by briefly considering the significance of Calvin’s ‘reinvention’ for contemporary understandings.
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Accardi, Giuseppe F. M. "Port-Royal. La preghiera e la liturgia (1609-1669). I percorsi di spiritualità e l'elaborazione della resistenza." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3422664.
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Throughout the XVII century Port-Royal nuns face various challenges that compromise their overall existence. In 1650s and 1660s, the French Clergy together with the Crown try several times to subdue all their components, and therefore also Port-Royal nuns, to the signature of a Formulaire in ratification of the anti-Jansenist condemnation endorsed by the papacy, especially with Urban VIII, Alexander VII, Clement IX and Clement XI. Port-Royal community rejects to sign, and starts to elabo-rate a mythic narration that combines resistance and martyrology. Port-Royal nuns write many historical documents that are used by the community as an apologetic means also during the persecutions of the early XVIII century.
The aim of my doctoral research is the analysis the long and complex forma-tion process of the Port-Royal identity, starting from its origins and its development from 1609 onward, when the reform started, and in 1668-1669, during the so-called «Paix de l’Église», that marks the end of the first anti-jansenist persecutions and the acme of the adherence of the community to the Jansenism. The specific focus is the analysis of the community spiritual life through the analysis of the praying and edify-ing literature of the nuns, that until today has been put aside by historiography.
In order to highlight how the community took part to the development of French spirituality of the early XVII century, this work tries to rebuild the image of the spirituality experienced in the monastery, once its identity had been well established. 1. Including Salesian and Oratorian experiences, the reform of mère Angélique grows up during the direction of Saint-Cyran (1633-1643), that harshly stresses the spiritual conduct of the monastery as a whole. 2. Eucharistic adoration became more and more refined, growing as the liturgical centre of the new Istitut du Saint-Sacrement (1633-1647) and endly the model that conforms the communal enterprise of recollec-tion of memories on the reform, and since 1630s it combines the slow development of the self-representation, enhanced by internal traditions and loyalty to the monastic model. It is a remarkable witness of the construction of specific categories of Port-Royal spirituality, before those Jansenist experience in which these categories found their own doctrinal field. 3. Furthermore, regulation of the prayer through oral and written normative devices becomes an important characteristic of the community. 4. The last part of the work focuses on the construction of a unique and shared ‘speech’ that develops into a true ideology facing the menace or the real suffering of persecu-tions in the second half of the century.Durante il XVII secolo, le religiose di Port-Royal affrontano diverse crisi che compromettono la stabilità del loro ordine. Negli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta il clero e la Corona di Francia stabiliscono diverse volte per tutti i loro appartenenti, e anche per le monache di Port-Royal, l’obbligo della firma del Formulario di ratifica delle condanne gianseniste da parte del papato, in particolare da Urbano VIII, Alessandro VII, Clemente IX e Clemente XI. La comunità di Port-Royal rifiuta la firma ed elabora una narrazione mitica di resistenza e martirio, pervenendo infine, alla proliferazione di documenti storici che funzionano come strumento apologetico proprio della comunità anche nelle persecuzioni del primo Settecento. La ricerca presente ha un obiettivo preciso: si concentra nell’approfondire la lunga e complicata definizione dell’identità di Port-Royal, nelle sue origini e nella sua trasformazione nel periodo compreso tra il 1609, data del debutto della riforma, e il 1668-1669, all’inizio della cosiddetta «Paix de l’Église», che segna la fine delle prime grandi persecuzioni antigianseniste e il culmine della partecipazione al Giansenismo. L’osservatorio specifico per tale obiettivo è l’analisi della vita spirituale della comunità attraverso lo studio della letteratura devozionale delle monache che è stata spesso messa da parte dalla storiografia. Per mettere in evidenza la misura in cui la comunità sembra partecipare a quel processo di trasformazione della spiritualità francese del primo Seicento, la pre-sente indagine cerca di ricostruire l’immagine della spiritualità che si è vissuta nel convento, quando ormai l’identità condivisa è ben delineata. 1. Raccolte le esperien-ze salesiane e oratoriane, la riforma angelicana matura pienamente col direttorato di Saint-Cyran (1633-1643), che caratterizza fortemente la vita spirituale del monastero. 2. L’adorazione eucaristica viene man mano perfezionata nel tempo, diventando il centro liturgico del nuovo Institut du Saint-Sacrement (1633-1647) e infine il modello cui si conforma l’impresa comunitaria volta alla raccolta di notizie e memorie retro-spettive sulla riforma, a partire dagli anni Trenta, accompagnando il lento formarsi di un’autorappresentazione, che si nutre di tradizione interna e fedeltà al modello mo-nastico. Essa è una valida testimonianza, in anteprima, della formazione di determi-nate categorie della spiritualità di Port-Royal, prima ancora dell’influenza giansenista, le quali troveranno in quest’ultima uno sfondo teorico appropriato. 3. Inoltre, la rego-lazione della preghiera mediante l’elaborazione di un apparato normativo prima orale e poi scritto, diviene un elemento importante della vita di comunità. 4. L’ultima parte del lavoro si focalizza sull’elaborazione di un ‘discorso’ unico e condiviso che si svi-luppa in una vera e propria ideologia nella seconda metà del secolo.
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Way, Anthony David. "Lift up your hearts a musico-liturgical study of the Eucharistic Prayer of the Roman Rite 1963-2004 /." 2004. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp59.25092005/index.html.
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Thesis (M. Mus.) -- Australian Catholic University, 2004.Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music. Supplementary volume contains a collection of unpublished Eucharistic prayer settings by various composers. Bibliography: p. 214 - 253. Also available in an electronic format via the internet.
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Fanning, Rosalie Patricia. "The anthropology of geste and the eucharistic rite of the Roman mass." Thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/6922.
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For sixty-five years hardly anyone in the English-speaking world was aware of the anthropological theories of Marcel Jousse, a
twentieth century Jesuit scholar. In 1990, Jousse's seminal work, Le style oral rythmique et mnemotechnique chez les verbo-moteurs. (The rhythmic and mnemotechnique oral style of the verbo-motors), was translated into English and given the name The Oral Style.
His anthropologie du geste, called in this study the anthropology of geste, presented his discovery of the universal anthropological laws governing human expression: mimism, bilateralism and formulism. Jousse had sought to understand the anthropological roots of oral style, in particular the phenomenal memory of oral style peoples. In this dissertation, Jousse's theories are summarised and his anthropological laws are used to determine whether three eucharistic prayers of the Roman rite contain elements of oral style expression. The Roman Canon, Eucharistic Prayer 1 and Eucharistic Prayer for Children 1 are set out in binary and ternary balancings. An attempt is made to show that written style expression, an inheritance from the Greeks, houses in its extraordinary complexity the very oral style elements it appears
to have superseded. The assertion made is that written style, with its predilection for subordination, actually conserves, preserves and perpetuates oral style balancings, not only in the simple sentence (what Jousse calls the propositional geste), but also in clauses, phrases, words, and sound devices. Support is given to T. J. Talley's view that the Jewish nodeh lekah (thanksgiving) and not the berakah (blessing) is the prayer source that influenced the structure of the early Christians' eucharist (thanksgiving in Greek). The expressions of thanksgiving that are a distinguishing feature of anaphoras from the 1st century AD onwards, continue to shape the eucharistic prayers today. This is offered as one reason why, in a reconstruction of Eucharistic Prayer for Children 1 presented at the end of Chapter 5, it is possible to balance one recitative with another, and the recitation of one prayer component with another. The dissertation concludes by recommending that oral studies of the Christian liturgies of East and West be pursued as they have much to contribute to the orality-literacy debate not only in the
matter of liturgical language but also in gaining an appreciation of other gestes of worship.Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1994.
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Savage, Allan Maurice. "An enquiry into Advent and Lenten Cycles of the Anglican and Roman Catholic Eucharistic Collects." Thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17669.
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There is dissatisfaction with the Collects when
scholastically (classically) understood. An alternative
phenomenological understanding is an engaging and artistic
philosophical enquiry. Phenomenological philosophical
enquiry engages the individual in meaningful interpretation
and construction of the life-world founded on a
non-dichotomous ontology. Phenomenological enquiry
(existential philosophy) interprets the present and relates
to the future such as is not possible in scholastic
(classical) philosophy.
The early twentieth century philosophers, Edmund Husserl and
Martin Heidegger, conceived a phenomenological method of
interpretation which innovatively placed the subject and
object in a dialectical union. Understanding the Collects
phenomenologically presents new insights susceptible to
consensus within a community. At present, the Collects are
structured on the principles of classical (dichotomous)
ontology. The Collects reflect the collective religious
meaning of the life-world and provide a vision upon which a
community may build. In phenomenological interpretation an
individual and a community, in the presence of that which is
divine, participate as co-creators of the life-world. Thus,
in contemporary western society phenomenological methodology
~ay be more helpful and therefore more desirable than
scholastic methodology for theological interpretation.
The hypothesis that phenomenological philosophy is more
helpful, thus more desirable, than scholastic philosopl1y
began as a hunch on my part. From a theological perspective,
I examined data obtained from a particular focus group.
Intelligent reflection, phenomenologically not classically
understood, is a working principle in this thesis.Taking into account phenomenological methodology and conceptualising the problem as originally and scientifically as circumstances permit, I offer a resolution to the dissatisfaction with the Collects. I suggest replacing scholastic ontological understanding with the more helpful phenomenological ontological understanding in liturgical interpretation. This replacement-solution hypothesis is evidenced in this study minimally, but sufficiently, to conclude that such replacement is occurring in theological understanding. There are clear existential intimations of a shift from classical understanding to phenomenological understanding. The results of the survey show traditional understanding to be favoured, however. In the concluding remarks, I evaluate my findings and suggest what direction future studies may take.
Philosophy, Practical & Systematic Theology
D. Th. (Practical Theology)
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Amadi, Anthony. "Inculturating the eucharist in the Catholic diocese of Mutare, Zimbabwe." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2365.
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The purpose of this research is to explore possible ways of making the Eucharistic celebration more meaningful to Catholics in Mutare diocese, Zimbabwe. The reason for this concern is that the Eucharist is the `source and summit' of the Christian life. Since inculturation is a possible means of achieving this aim of a meaningful celebration, it was found necessary in this study to examine how the Eucharist has been taught and inculturated in the Catholic Church over the years. From this It was discovered that inculturation was absent in the writings and catechesis of early Church authors and Fathers during the periods reviewed. Although an observation was made that it was indirectly implied in the Eucharistic prayers of the early Christians, it was only after a new `understanding of culture' emerged, following Vatican II, that permission was given by Rome to use local languages at Eucharistic celebrations.
In the course of this study, efforts were made to determine the elements that constitute Eucharistic inculturation in Mutare diocese. These include: symbolic gestures, local languages, proverbs, enthronement, local staple food, invocation of ancestors, and others. In an empirical study to find out the extent of inculturation that has taken place in Mutare diocese, questionnaires were sent to sixteen out of twenty-four parishes in the diocese. Oral interviews were also conducted for this purpose. After analyzing the responses from respondents and those interviewed, it was discovered that some areas of inculturation have been realized, though not fully. Two outstanding areas which have not yet been realized were found to be the use of local staple food and the invocation of ancestors. The conclusion was that inculturation is not fully implemented in Mutare diocese and this impacts negatively on the celebration of the Eucharist. Eucharistic inculturation is an achievable goal in Mutare diocese, however, provided there is intensive catechesis which takes into account Shona-rich cultural values, aided by active involvement of small Christian Communities and the support of the hierarchy.Systematic Theology and Theological Ethics
M. Th. (Systematic Theology)