Liturgical Institute Summer Program 2010

Summer courses and distinguished faculty, June 14 to July 23:


Session I, June 14 to July 2

Sources and Methods in Liturgiology, Dr. Lynne Boughton, The Liturgical Institute

Students are introduced to the primary literary sources for Liturgiology and to various methods of approaching them that are found in secondary sources. The focus is on liturgical documents, although other documents pertaining to the liturgy will also be discussed. The time period under consideration extends from the first centuries of Christianity to the Second Vatican Council. Subsequent developments and contemporary liturgical documents are studied in other classes. Here students will be provided with a history of liturgical books and developments in liturgy as a means of more deeply appropriating the tradition that underlies the liturgical books in use today.

The Liturgical Movement, Mr. Christopher Carstens, Diocese of Lacrosse

This course focuses on the liturgical movement as it developed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Students will also study its influence upon the teachings of the magisterium and the Second Vatican Council. Finally, the vicissitudes of the movement in recent years will be studied.

 
 Session II, July 5 to July 23

Liturgical Art and Architecture, Dr. Denis McNamara, The Liturgical Institute

Symbol is the fundamental medium for religion and its ritual elaboration, and liturgical art and architecture are understood as part of the symbol system of the rite. The following are examined for their relevance to the proper understanding of Catholic worship: the role of the Temple and synagogue, the classical inheritance, ritual anthropology, and theories of symbol and language. Particular attention is given to the tradition of Catholic architecture through the centuries, movements in Modernism and Post-Modernism, and recent moves toward a reintegration of tradition in new design. This course will address styles, types, and meanings in sacred architecture and the allied arts with a focus on the developments and movements of the 20th century. The course will use examples from the history of architecture to foster understanding and discussion of the larger theological and philosophical ideas associated with architecture.

Liturgy and Cultural Adaptation, Msgr. James Moroney, Diocese of Worcester

The Church’s liturgy has always existed in dynamic relationship with the complex currents of culture and history. The interplay between liturgy and culture is of considerable importance in Catholicism today. This course examines the Church’s liturgy in the light of social history, the humanities, and cultural theory. Attention is given to normative Church documents and the influences of modernity and post-modernity on liturgical developments. The postconciliar agenda of inculturation in its various expressions is examined and evaluated.

 

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