Liturgy, Time and the Politics of Redemption (Radical Traditions) - Softcover

Rashkover, Randi; Pecknold, Chad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0334040337 ISBN 13: 9780334040330

Publisher: SCM Press, 2006

Synopsis

The "Radical Traditions" series cuts new lines of enquiry across a confused array of debates concerning the place of theology in the modern world. The series invites Jewish, Christian and Islamic theologians back to the word, recovering modes of scriptural reasoning that underlie modernist reasoning. The latest in series, "Liturgy, Time and the Politics of Redemption" is divided into five parts - Liturgical Acts, Liturgical Time, Liturgical Scrolling, Liturgical Improvisation, and Liturgical Silence - each featuring essays about a different aspect of Jewish or Christian liturgy. Among the highlights: In the first part, Peter Ochs invites readers to participate in a thought experiment that demonstrates how the act of reciting Jewish Morning Prayer has the potential for reorienting our view of the world. Sam Wells presents an improvisational reading of the "Book of Esther" in the section entitled Liturgical Improvisation. He illustrates how the idea of "overacceptance" characterizes Christian engagement with the world. In the section entitled Liturgical Silence, Oliver Davies imports two Russian words for silence (molchanie and tishina) to illumine what he calls "the silence of the cross." Taken together, the essays challenge the modern and postmodern understandings of time that Western culture takes for granted and pose alternatives that, to quote coeditor Randi Rashkover, "have the capacity to redefine sociality and choreograph the redemption of time through political acts of liturgical life."

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From the Back Cover

Many theologians contend that liturgical texts and rituals have important implications for our public life together. "Liturgy, Time, and the Politics of Redemption" advances a timely conversation about the place of religious reasoning in public discourse by attending to the way the scriptures are liturgically performed in Jewish and Christian communities. It includes diverse examinations of liturgy -- of interest to theologians, philosophers, and clergy -- and brings Jewish and Christian thinkers into conversation, showing parallels in these traditions liturgical reasoning and opening new possibilities for Jewish-Christian relations.

Contributors: Scott Bader-Saye
Oliver Davies
Robert Gibbs
Steven Kepnes
Shaul Magrid
Peter Ochs
C. C. Pecknold
Ben Quash
Randi Rashkover
Graham Ward
Samuel Wells

About the Author

Randi L. Rashkover is associate professor of religiousstudies and director of the Judaic Studies Program atGeorge Mason University. She is the author ofRevelation and Theopolitics: Barth, Rosenzweig, and thePolitics of Praise and Freedom and Law: A Jewish-,Christian Apologetics.

Edition details

• Publisher: SCM Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0334040337
• ISBN 13: 9780334040330
• Binding: Print on Demand (Paperback)
• Number of pages: 266
• Editor: Hauerwas Stanley, Ochs Peter