Prayers and liturgical material Books

Book SynopsisThe manuscript S1 is one of the chief witnesses to the Sanskrit Yasna, containing the Avestan text of the Zoroastrian Yasna liturgy to chapter 46.19, together with a Sanskrit translation and commentary. This book contains the complete, full-colour set of facsimile images of S1. An introduction by Leon Goldman provides an overview of the Zoroastrian Sanskrit tradition together with a discussion of the S1 manuscript covering its physical appearance, its age and history, and for the first time, a detailed palaeographic analysis of the Avestan and Sanskrit text.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations 1 Introduction 2 The Parsi Sanskrit Tradition 3 Physical Description 4 Age and History 5 Palaeography  5.1 Avestan Palaeography  5.2 Sanskrit Palaeography 6 Pahlavi Text 7 Range of Extant Text 8 Note to the Facsimile Images 9 Facsimile Images References

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Book SynopsisAs one of the most frequently commentated on biblical books during antiquity and the middle ages, the Song of Songs has played a central role in the history of Christian spirituality. At a time of heightened interest in the Song of Songs among biblical scholars, historians, and students of spirituality, this Companion to the Song of Songs in the History of Spirituality provides a state-of-the art overview of its history, challenges some conventional wisdom, and presents innovative studies of some lesser-known aspects of the Song’s reception. The essays in this volume—including a chapter on Jewish interpretation—present the diverse forms of spirituality inspired by the Song since the beginning of the Christian era. Contributors: Ann W. Astell, Mark S. Burrows, Emily Cain, Catherine Cavadini, Rabia Gregory, Arthur Holder, Jason Kalman, Suzanne LaVere, Hannah Matis, Bernard McGinn, Timothy H. Robinson, and Karl Shuve.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction   Timothy H. Robinson 1 Mystical Wounds  Eastern Patristic Authors on the Song of Songs   Emily R. Cain 2 “A Garden Enclosed, a Fountain Sealed”  The Song of Songs and Ritual Purity in Early Latin Christianity   Karl Shuve 3 The Song of Songs in the Early Middle Ages  From Gregory the Great to the Gregorian Reform   Hannah W. Matis 4 The Cistercian Song  Reception of Bernard of Clairvaux’s Exegesis in Later Cistercian Interpretations of the Song of Songs   Catherine Rose Cavadini 5 The Song of Songs as a Call to Action  Scholastic Interpretation in the High Middle Ages   Suzanne LaVere 6 The Song of Songs in Aelred of Rievaulx’s Liturgical Preaching   Ann W. Astell 7 The Beautiful Men of the Song of Songs?  Replacing and Erasing the Female Beloved in Ancient and Medieval Jewish Interpretation   Jason Kalman 8 Women Interpreting the Song of Songs: 1150–1700   Bernard McGinn 9 Abandonment and Abundance in John of the Cross’s Spiritual Canticle  The Poet as the Writer of New Scripture   Mark S. Burrows 10 Visual Exegesis of the Song of Songs in European Art   Rabia Gregory 11 The Banquet of Love  The Song of Songs in Reformed Sacramental Piety: 1586–1729   Timothy H. Robinson  Epilogue  Christian Reception of the Song of Songs since 1800   Arthur Holder Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn From Laws to Liturgy, Edward Epsen offers a constructive account of what God produces in the act of creation and how it is ontologically ordered and governed. Inspired by the philosophy of Bishop Berkeley (18th century), Epsen proposes that the physical world is produced by the way God ordains the course of possible human sensations, with angels executing the divine ordinances. Idealism is here re-attached to a tradition of Christian Platonism, updating the traditional notions of the aeon, angelic government, and the divine ideas, so as to be capable of explanatory work in regard to the philosophical problems of perception and induction: the objectivity and observability of the world are explained by a unified sacramental economy of the Eucharist.Table of Contents  Preface Part 1: Making the Theological Case for Idealism  1 Creation and Christian Metaphysics   1.1 Introduction   1.2 The Mind-Matter Relation in Theology   1.3 How Platonism becomes Christian Idealism   1.4 The Immateriality of the Body: A Suspicion of Gnosticism   1.5 Summary Argument and Chapter Outlines  2 A World as Liturgical Language   2.1 Introduction: Cosmos and Eucharist   2.2 Angels in a Eucharistic Cosmos   2.3 Biblical Logos Cosmology   2.4 The Absolute Primacy of Christ   2.5 Angels as Liturgical Prophets and Governors  3 Early Idealist Theories of Creation   3.1 Introduction   3.2 Plotinus and the Critique of Aristotle’s Categories   3.3 Gregory’s Phenomenalistic Immaterialism  4 Dionysius on Hierarchy and Symbolic Theology   4.1 Introduction: Mystical Ascent through Incongruous Images   4.2 The Cosmic Hierarchy   4.3 The Celestial Hierarchy and the Visible Creation Economy  5 Berkeley and the Immaterial Language of Embodiment   5.1 Introduction   5.2 The Language Model of Vision   5.3 The Heterogeneity of the Senses and the Confinement of the Sensibles   5.4 Analogous Fields of Discourse   5.5 The Idealist Construction of Space Part 2: Christian Idealism: An Analytic Exposition  6 The Nexus of Mind and Matter in Perceptual Consciousness   6.1 Introduction   6.2 Realism, Idealism, and Perceptual Theory   6.3 An Ontology of Sensory Universals   6.4 Perceptual Error and Objecthood   6.5 An Idealist View of Physical Causality  7 The Construction of the Physical World   7.1 Introduction   7.2 The Logical Construction of Things in Space   7.3 Idealism and the Logical Structure of Physical Theory   7.4 Against the Claims of Physical Realism   7.5 Realism and Idealist Theology of Visible Creation  8 The Ultimate Reality as a Community of Minds   8.1 Introduction   8.2 Christian Theism and the Problem of Creative Laws   8.3 The Augustinian-Cartesian View of the Soul   8.4 The Logical Construction of Time   8.5 The Laws of Creation Part 3: The Theological Case for Christian Idealism Continued  9 The Cosmic Liturgy   9.1 Introduction   9.2 The Celestial Scope of Natural Theology   9.3 The Challenge to Physical Realism from Angelic Cosmology   9.4 The Unity of a Eucharistic Cosmos   Bibliography   Index

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Book SynopsisThis essay is centered around five questions: (i) What is the proper place of liturgical theology? (ii) Which evolutions have there been in the past and which current tendencies are there in the field of liturgical theology? (iii) Which contents must liturgical theologians focus on? (iv) How can liturgical theologians engage in research? And (v): How can liturgical theology appropriately respond to what happens in Church and society? Each question corresponds with one part. The rationale behind ordering the content of this essay in this way is the following: starting from a reflection about the non-evident place of liturgical theology, an attempt is made to give it a fitting profile again on the basis of its genealogy in the Liturgical Movement. Correspondingly, liturgical theology can be considered a full-fledged research program, which does not simply deal with Christian rituals, festivals and sacraments, but with the core of Christian faith.Table of ContentsLiturgical Theology as a Research Program  Joris Geldhof  Abstract  Keywords  Introduction  1 Positions  2 Developments  3 Visions  4 Operations  5 Challenges  Annotated Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe sermons here published for the first time are attributed to an otherwise unknown friar referred to simply as Frater Petrus. The collection provides evidence of actual preaching in a normal setting from fourteenth-century Germany, between the beginnings of the Franciscan order and the Observant reform movement, not by a major light of the order, but a regular member who may have held status as an intermediate-level teacher, to judge by the care with which the manuscripts were prepared. Theologically competent and gracefully presented in the conventional sermon style of the period, the collection, edited and translated by Daniel Nodes, offers scholars and students a reliable new resource in an area of sermon studies that is still in short supply.Trade Review"This volume of sixty-three sermons will shed valuable light on preaching method and style of a Franciscan friar in a normal setting of the pre-Observant fourteenth century. Daniel Nodes’s careful Latin edition with clear English translation enables readers to penetrate more deeply into biblical interpretation and instruction during the High Middle Ages." Nigel F. Palmer, Emeritus Professor of Medieval German, St Edmund Hall, Oxford "In the later Middle Ages, the friars created a system of mass communication based on collections of Latin model sermons which could be turned into the vernacular for lay congregations anywhere. Examples of these model sermons in critical editions are rare and critical editions accompanied by translations to which a good student can be directed are almost non-existent. Dan Nodes earns the gratitude of scholars and teachers of medieval religious history by filling this glaring gap." D. L. d’Avray, Emeritus Professor of History, UCLTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Abbreviations Introduction  1 The Text and Its Significance  2 Collationes de tempore  3 The Manuscript Witnesses  4 The Relationship between Witnesses  5 The Content and Nature of Petrus’s Collations  6 The Author and His Audience: Who Was Frater Petrus? For Whom Were the Collations Composed?  7 Notes on the Present Edition and Translation Text and Translation Appendix 1: Endpaper Prayer Appendix 2: Conspectus of Collations, Feast Days, and Lections Select Bibliography Index

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