Annotation
The course presents the theology, history and current shape of the Christian liturgical gathering in an ecumenical context. It also introduces students to the issues of liturgical criteria. The aim of the course is to provide them basic knowledge and hermeneutical tools to the understanding and critical reflection of liturgy which are necessary for the liturgical production in different situations and liturgical traditions. The structure of the course:
1. The introduction into the liturgics: basic terms and approaches, sources and literature
2. The history of liturgy: biblical patterns, the Ancient church, Reformation, the Second Vatican Council
3. The mystery of the worship: the theological perspective
4. The worship service as a ritual and symbolic communication: the anthropological perspective
5. The structure of the liturgy
6. The word and words in liturgy
7. The Eucharist
8. The liturgy and ethics
9. Liturgia semper reformanda: the liturgical renewal and its criteria
10. The liturgical time: Sunday, the liturgical year, the linear or cyclical concept of time
11. The liturgical space: house of God or the house of the people of God?