The theology of liturgical blessing in the Book of blessings
Subtitle: a phenomenologico-theological investigation of a liturgical book
By: by David A. Stosur.
Published: 1994
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
Subjects: Book of blessings.; Blessing (Liturgy) -- History.; Blessing (Liturgy) -- Comparative studies.
Genres: Comparative studies.
Other titles: Blessing in the Book of blessings
Notes: Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Notre Dame, 1994.

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 381-392).

Photocopy. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1994. 21 cm.
Table of contents: Roman Catholic theology of blessings 1952-1989: Evolution of the theology of blessings, background. Post-Vatican II reform of blessings in the Roman ritual. An approach to a liturgical theology of blessing; The categories and contexts of liturgical blessings: Organization of rites in the Book of blessings. The blessing context: occasions and liturgical settings; Blessing as liturgical action, structure and performance: The basic structure of a blessing rite. Communicative and literary/liturgical structures. Semiotic analysis. Analysis of the blessing for various circumstances; Analysis of the prayers of blessing: The forms and components of blessing prayers. Form A Prayers: God as addressee. Form B₋b1₋s Prayers: The assembly as addressee. Form B₋b2₋s Prayers: The blessee as addressee; A liturgical theology of the Book of blessings.; Appendix A. Comparative lists of blessings in the Book of blessings and in the 1952 Rituale romanun; Appendix B. Characteristics of prayers and blessing in the Book of blessings.