PT 725/LW 925. Liturgical Theology. January Term January 14-18, Trinity School for Ministry/North American Lutheran Seminary

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1 1 1. Course Description PT 725/LW 925 Liturgical Theology January Term 2019 January 14-18, 2019 Trinity School for Ministry/North American Lutheran Seminary The Rev. Dr. Frank C. Senn This course probes the ways of finding theological meaning in liturgical orders. It understands liturgical theology to be theological reflection on liturgical/sacramental orders, not a general theology of worship. The course will explore the relationship between liturgy and doctrine (lex orandi, lex credendi) throughout the history of Christian liturgy. Important examples of liturgical/sacramental theology from the ancient, medieval, Reformation, and modern periods will be studied. 2. Course Objectives Students will become acquainted with the relationship between ritual and meaning, liturgy and doctrine. They will become familiar with the mystagogical homilies of the church fathers, liturgical commentaries of medieval theologians (especially Germanus of Constantinople and Amalar of Metz), the liturgical reflections of Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Jeremy Taylor; and understand liturgical theology methodologies of Alexander Schmemann, Gordon Lathrop, Geoffrey Wainwright, and Aidan Kavanagh. In the course project students will do their own liturgical theology in preaching and parish teaching. 3. Learning Outcomes Students will know the main liturgical orders and sacramental practices of ancient, medieval (Byzantine and Latin), Reformation, and modern periods in order to follow the commentaries on these orders by bishops, scholars, reformers, and theologians from these different periods. They will understand the difference between typological, allegorical, and historical critical hermeneutics. They will be able to do liturgical theology based on the liturgical orders used in their parish in mystagogical preaching, parish adult education, and articles in parish newsletters. 4. Course Texts

2 2 All students in the course will read: David W. Fagerberg, Theologia Prima. What Is Liturgical Theology? Revised Edition. Chicago/Mundelein: Hillenbrand Books, 1992, ISBN-13: ISBN-10: Students will choose to read one of the following theories of liturgical theology: Simon Chan, Liturgical Theology: The Church as Worshiping Community. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, ISBN-13: ISBN-10: Maxwell E. Johnson, Praying and Believing in Early Christianity: The Interplay Between Christian Worship and Doctrine. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, ISBN: ISBN: (ebook) Aidan Kavanagh, On Liturgical Theology. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Prerss, 1984, ISBN; Gordon W. Lathrop, Holy Things: A Liturgical Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, ISBN: X Alexander Schmemann, Introduction to Liturgical Theology. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir s Seminary Press, ISBN-13: ISBN-10: Robert Taft, SJ, Beyond East and West: Problems in Liturgical Understanding. Washington, DC: The Pastoral Press, ISBN: Chapters 10 and 11 are especially important. Dwight W. Vogel, Primary Sources of Liturgical Theology: A Reader. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, ISBN: A selection of writings of different liturgical theologians. Geoffrey Wainwright, Doxology: The Praise of God in Worship, Doctrine, and Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980, especially pp ISBN: The student will read one of the following examples of doing liturgical theology: Maxwell E. Johnson, The Church in Act: Lutheran Liturgical Theology in Ecumenical Conversation. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, ISBN: ISBN: (ebook). Essays on various topics that show a Lutheran liturgical theologian at work. Leonel L. Mitchell, Praying Shapes Believing: A Theological Commentary on the Book of Common Prayer, Revised Edition. New York: Seabury Press, 1985, ISBN-13: ISBN-10: (ebook). Discusses the theology embedded in the orders in the Book of Common Prayer (1979).

3 3 Philip H. Pfatteicher, Journey into the Heart of God: Living the Liturgical Year. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN: A theological commentary on the propers for the liturgical year that brings out the implications for spirituality. Frank C. Senn, Eucharistic Body. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, ISBN; ISBN; (ebook). A theological journey through the Eucharistic liturgy from an autobiographical perspective. It focuses especially on the Great Thanksgiving and Holy Communion. Alexander Schmemann, The Eucharist. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir s Seminary Press, ISBN; A theologically commentary on the Byzantine Divine Liturgy, part by part. Gives a theological commentary on the Byzantine Divine Liturgy. AND students will read one of the following historical examples or historical studies of liturgical theology: Jean Danielou, The Bible and the Liturgy. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1956, 1966, ISBN-13: ISBN-10: Danielou goes through the liturgical rites showing how the church fathers interpreted them in the light of biblical typology. Eric Knibbs, ed. and trans., Amalar of Metz On the Liturgy. Vols Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, ISBN; ISBN: An example of allegorical interpretation of the liturgy. It influenced further expositions of the Mass throughout the Middle Ages. Recommend read Vol. 2, Book 3, On the Office of the Mass. Martin Luther, Admonition Concerning the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of our Lord, in Luther s Works, Vol. 38, ed. Martin E. Lehmann. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1971, ISBN: An example of preaching on Holy Communion. Karin Maag, Lifting Hearts to the Lord: Worship with John Calvin in Sixteenth Century Geneva. Grand Rapids, MI/Cambridge, UK: William B. Eerdmans, ISBN; An anthology of Calvin s theology of worship in commentaries and letters. Paul Meyendorf, ed. and trans., St. Germanus of Constantinople On the Divine Liturgy. Crestwood, NTY: St. Vladimir s Seminary Press, ISBN: An archetypal commentary on the Divine Liturgy using the allegorical method that influenced later Byzantine commentaries on the liturgy. H. Boone Porter, Jeremy Taylor, Liturgist. Alcuin Club. London: S.P.C.K., ISBN; A study of Jeremy Taylor s commentary on the Book of Common Prayer during the late 17 th century period of Restoration.

4 4 Craig Alan Satterlee, Ambrose of Milan s Method of Mystagogical Preaching. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, ISBN: A study of Ambrose s mystatogical homilies in the context of the rites of initiation in Church of Milan in the late 4 th century with application to mystagogical preaching today. Edward Yarnold, SJ, ed., and trans. The Awe Inspiring Rites of Initiation: Baptismal Homilies of the Fourth Century. Slough, England: St. Paul Publications, SBN: Yarnold gives description of the rites of initiation and the Mass as known to the church fathers, compares sacramental rites son with the mystery religions, and provides translations of the mystagogical homilies of Cyril of Jerusalem, Ambrose of Milan, John Chrysostom, and Theodore of Mopsuestia. 5. Course Requirements Try to read the common text by Fagerberg before the week begins. Submit to Dr. Senn a list of the other books you will be reading by the second day of class. Attend class sessions, ask questions, and participate in discussions. The course project is either to prepare a sermon series (5) or a series of newsletter articles (shorter, therefore 12) explicating the liturgy used in your parish or congregation. In your sermons or articles incorporate the principles of liturgical theology you have learned in this course. In other words, draw out the theology embedded in the liturgical order, both in texts and actions. The sermon series may be appropriate for the five weeks of Lent. Since sermons should not discuss methodology, prepare a newsletter or bulletin blurb that will explain what you are doing and attach that to the sermons you submit. Students who are doing a sermon series may want to look at Craig Satterlee s Ambrose of Milan s Method of Mystagogical Preaching for guidance in preaching mystagogical homilies. The newsletter series of articles may break up the liturgy into parts. If the congregation regularly experiences more than one liturgy, e.g. so-called traditional and so-called contemporary or the Holy Communion and Vespers, include both in your articles. Students who are writing a series of articles may want to look at Alexander Schmemenn s The Eucharist as a model of liturgical commentary. Since footnotes won t be used in sermons or newsletter articles, list references at the end of each sermon or article. You should also indicate what liturgy you are commenting on. If it s not in BCP or LBW/LBW I will need a copy of the order attached to your sermons or articles. The sermons or articles will be ed to Dr. Senn by the end of February (master s students) or the end of March (doctoral students). fcsenn70@gmail.com.

5 5 6. Student Evaluation Your grade for the course will be based on your sermons or articles. I will take into account the overall structure of your series (how you organize it), how coherent the series is, and how familiar you are with primary and secondary literature as you communicate to your parish/congregation. 7. Course Structure Monday AM Differentiation of Theology of Worship/Liturgical Theology (Fagerberg) Ritual and Meaning (Roy Rappaport, Catherine Bell) Monday PM Tuesday AM Tuesday PM Wednesday AM Wednesday PM Thursday AM Thursday PM Friday AM Natural Symbols and Meanings (Justin Martyr, Louis Bouyer) The Body and Meaning: Public Bathing and Rites of Christian Initiation (Tertullian, Apostolic Tradition, Cyril of Jerusalem) Typology and Allegory: Mystagogy (Theodore of Mopsuestia, Ambrose of Milan, Augustine of Hippo) Liturgical Theology East (Germanus of Constantinople) Liturgical Theology West (Amalar of Metz) Lutheran and Reformed Liturgy (Luther and Calvin) Anglican Liturgy (BCP, Jeremy Taylor) Historical Evolution of the Ordo: The Role of Tradition (Schmemann) Meanings from Juxtaposition of Ordos (Lathrop) Friday PM Lex Orandi Lex Credendi debate (Wainwright, Kavanagh) Summary of Principles of Liturgical Theology