A PHENOMENOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING OF CERTAIN LITURGICAL TEXTS: The Anglican Collects for Advent and the Roman Catholic Collects for Lent
Author: Allan M Savage
Description
This book examines the philosophical premises underlying the language used in liturgical prayers. Scholastic philosophy, the dominant philosophical perspective in the West, is no longer satisfactory for contemporary religious formulation. Phenomenological philosophy appears to be replacing scholastic philosophy in forming and understanding personal and communal religious beliefs. The Collects of the Anglican and Roman Catholic eucharistic liturgies were examined, re-written and "field-tested". The book encourages further investigation into the growing use of phenomenology in liturgical understanding based on a discernible trend in this direction.
About the Author
Allan M Savage, DTh, (University of South Africa), was ordained RC priest in 1978. He is a sessional lecturer in the Faculty of Theology, University of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He has published articles in The Canadian Journal of Adlerian Psychology, (Vancouver, BC), in Year Book 2001, (Adlerian Society of the United Kingdom), in Explorations: Journal for Adventurous Thought, (Dayton, Ohio) and in Quodlibet: Online Journal of Christian Theology and Philosophy (www.qoudlibet.net)
Publisher: University of America Press [www.univpress.com and enter "savage" in Quick Search.]