Journal article
How can phenomenology address classic objections to liturgy?
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Liturgical worship has at times been controversial within parts of the Christian tradition. This article uses phenomenology—especially the thought of Paul Ricœur, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Gabriel Marcel—to analyse, evaluate, and respond to five common objections to liturgy by those who reject it: (1) the absence of freedom and spontaneity, (2) the absence of authenticity, (3) the use of symbols to mediate the divine, (4) the use of the liturgical calendar, and (5) liturgy’s repetitive natur...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- MDPI Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Religions Journal website
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 4
- Article number:
- 236
- Publication date:
- 2021-03-25
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-03-22
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2077-1444
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1172473
- Local pid:
- pubs:1172473
- Deposit date:
- 2021-04-19
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- Copyright holder:
- B Aspray
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © 2021 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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