REVELATORY LITURGY
by Peter J. Leithart
Philip Caldwell’s Liturgy As Revelation is a successful book on several levels. Caldwell fills out recent accounts of twentieth-century Catholicism by attending to some lesser-known figures associated in various ways with the nouvelle theologie: Rene Latourelle, Salvatore Marsili, Gustave Martelet, and, a later figure, Avery Dulles. Caldwell’s analyses of these writers is anything but superficial: He covers their lives and major contributions, in considerable detail.
These writers were to liturgical theology what the “new theologians” were to Thomism and neo-scholasticism: “just as la nouvelle théologie, fortified by the credible stature that a Christology of biblical and historical proportions had generated, attempted to rescue Catholic theology from the stale inertia of the scholastic manualists, the similarly strengthened liturgical movement tried to retrieve Christian worship from the grasp of ritualists and canon lawyers.”
As a theological treatise, Caldwell’s book shows both the scope and the integrity of that movement - its deep interweaving of typological exegesis and liturgical sensibilities, its anthropological and cultural interests inherent in the new theology, its rootedness in the Catholic tradition that produced the fruit of reform and fresh theology, their effort to formulate “revisionary metaphysics” by attending to history and the Bible, the Christocentricity that guided everything.
These writers were to liturgical theology what the “new theologians” were to Thomism and neo-scholasticism: “just as la nouvelle théologie, fortified by the credible stature that a Christology of biblical and historical proportions had generated, attempted to rescue Catholic theology from the stale inertia of the scholastic manualists, the similarly strengthened liturgical movement tried to retrieve Christian worship from the grasp of ritualists and canon lawyers.”
As a theological treatise, Caldwell’s book shows both the scope and the integrity of that movement - its deep interweaving of typological exegesis and liturgical sensibilities, its anthropological and cultural interests inherent in the new theology, its rootedness in the Catholic tradition that produced the fruit of reform and fresh theology, their effort to formulate “revisionary metaphysics” by attending to history and the Bible, the Christocentricity that guided everything.
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