The Play of Forms
Subtitle: Nature, Culture and Liturgy
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Published: May 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 90
ISBN-13: 9789004146334
Subjects: Christianity; Religion - Church Life; Liturgy; Performing Arts; Performing Arts/Dance; Theater - Playwriting; Christianity - General; Institutions & Organizations; Catholic Church
First sentence: 1. When Prosper Gueranger, the founding father of the Benedictine congregation of Solesmes, published his studies on the liturgy in the late 1870s, he began the first part of his Institutions liturgiques with a simple but very exact definition: 'Considered generally, the liturgy is the entirety of symbols, hymns, and actions by which the Church manifests and gives expression to its worship of God.'