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The document is a syllabus outlining a course on the history and theology of Christian Initiation, focusing on the liturgical rites of initiation in both the Christian East and West.
Instructor: Nicholas V. Russo, Ph.D.
Course Description: Liturgical historian Robert Taft, S.J. has insisted that “Christian liturgy is a given, an object, an already existing reality like English literature. One discovers what English literature is only by reading Chaucer and Shakespeare and Eliot and Shaw and the contemporaries. So too with the liturgy. If we want to know what Christmas and Chrismation, Eucharist and Easter mean, we shall not get far by studying anthropology or game-theory, or by asking ourselves what we think they mean. We must plunge into the enormous stream of liturgical and patristic evidence and wade through it piece by piece, age by age, ever alert to pick up shifts in the current as each generation reaches for its own understanding of what it is we are about.” Beyond East and West: Problems in Liturgical Understanding, Second Edition (Rome: Pontifical Oriental Institute, 1997) p. 14 This course will trace the origins, development, and interpretation of the rites of Christian Initiation proceeding from this premise: that understanding the rites of initiation comes not from pious navel gazing or myth making based on our particular fantasies, preferences, and prejudices, but from a methodical study of the rites themselves as they are preserved in the historical sources—written, visual, and architectural—using the tried and true methods of historical criticism and comparative liturgy.
Year: 2014
Region / City: Notre Dame, Indiana
Topic: Christian Initiation, Liturgical Studies
Document Type: Course Syllabus
Institution: University of Notre Dame
Note: Instructor Nicholas V. Russo
Target Audience: Students of Liturgical Studies
Period: Summer 2014
Date of Approval: June 2014
Date of Changes: Not specified
Price: 8 / 10 USD
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