The mythological traditions of liturgical drama
Subtitle: the Eucharist as theater
By: Christine C. Schnusenberg.
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Mahwah, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9780809105441
Subjects: Drama -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Liturgical drama; Cosmogony, Ancient, in literature; Public worship; Mythology in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: A hermeneutic solution; title: The theater of the Near East; title: The theater of Egypt; title: The theater of Babylon; title: Hittite cult-drama and the theater-festivals; title: Theater and drama of Canaan-Ugarit; title: The cosmogonic existence of ancient Israel; title: The cosmogonic drama and temple-theaters in ancient Syria; title: The theater of Greece, Alexandria, and Rome; title: The theater of Greece; title: The dynamics of the theater of Alexandria; title: Roman cosmogonies and the Roman theater; title: The incarnation; title: The cosmogonic universal drama of Jesus Christ and the development of a theater of the church; title: The cult of Rome, the Last Supper, the Church Fathers, and the theater of the church; title: In the beginning there was theater.