title: Context and Text: Method in Liturgical Theology (Pueblo Books)
author: Monsignor Kevin W. Irwin
description: Despite Sacrosanctum Concilium and the twenty-five years' worth of scholarship that followed, much still needs to be said and discovered about the relationship between liturgy and theology. This work is situated within the present debate over liturgical theology in at least three ways: it concerns methods for the study of liturgy, it explores the meanings that the term liturgical theology can have, and it contributes to the evaluation and critique of present and possible future forms of liturgical rites. In addition, it articulates how the study of liturgy is essentially pastoral theology in that liturgical rites shape the faith and life of believing participants. The historical, theological, and pastoral investigation of the liturgy required by the constitution on the Sacred Liturgy forms the background and part of the rationale for this work. It is both a proposal for and an example of an investigation of the Church's liturgical praxis from a liturgical-theological perspective. What the reader gains is principles for interpreting the various aspects of liturgy (texts, symbols, ritual gestures) in relation to each other in a theological way and for articulating some theological and spiritual implications derived from liturgy."Long committed to the study of method in liturgical theology, Irwin produces here a fine contribution to the work of scholars, pastors, and liturgical practitioners alike." Theological Studies
zlib_text: **Blessed Marie-  
  
  
  Celine of the  
  
  
  Presentation**
  
  
  **(Germaine Castang) 1878-  
  
  
  1897**
  
  
  **Translated and Compiled  
  
  
  by the Poor Clares of  
  
  
  Rockford, Illinois**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Nihil Obstat:| Reverend Monsignor David D. Kagan, J.C.L.  
  
  
  Vicar General, Diocese of Rockford
  
  
  Imprimatur:| Reverend Monsignor David D. Kagan, J.C.L.  
  
  
  Vicar General, Diocese of Rockford  
  
  
  Rockford, Illinois  
  
  
  May 7, 2007
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur are official declarations that a book or
  pamphlet is free of doctrinal or moral error. No implication is contained
  therein that those who have granted the Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur agree with
  the contents, opinions or statements expressed. They do not necessarily
  signify that the work is approved as a basic text for catechetical
  instruction.
  
  
  Copyright © 2007 by the Poor Clares of Rockford, Illinois.
  
  
  This book was compiled from several sources: Part One—an anonymous and undated
  French book entitled _Soeur Marie-Celine de l