Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Chapter 1 Sacrosanctum Concilium and the Meaning of Vatican II 1
1.1 The Nemesis of the Liturgical Reform 2
1.2 Approaches to Sacrosanctum Concilium 4
1.3 The Agenda of the Council and the Liturgical Debate 10
1.4 The Liturgical Constitution: A Forgotten Hermeneutics of Vatican II? 13
Chapter 2 Liturgical Reform and Ressourcement 19
2.1 The Liturgical Constitution as a Key to Understanding Vatican II 19
2.2 Liturgical Movement and Ressourcement 22
2.3 Liturgy, Ressourcement, and Ecumenism 31
2.4 Liturgy, Ressourcement, and Mission 37
2.5 Bible, Fathers, and History: The Sources of the Liturgical Reform 46
2.6 Tradition and Ressourcement in the Liturgical Reform 52
Chapter 3 Liturgical Reform and Ecclesiology 59
3.1 Between Mystici Corporis and Lumen Gentium 59
3.2 The Core Ecclesiology of Sacrosanctum Concilium 65
3.3 Liturgy and Ecclesiological Ressourcement 71
3.4 Ecclesiological Consequences of the New Liturgy 81
3.5 Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi and the Reception of the Liturgical Constitution 87
Chapter 4 Liturgical Reform and Rapprochement 93
4.1 Pòlis and Liturgy in the Church of Vatican II 96
4.2 Rapprochement within the Church 101
4.3 Liturgy and Ecumenical Rapprochement 107
4.4 Liturgy and the New Relationship with the Jews 112
4.5 Rapprochement as Style of the Church 115
Chapter 5 Reforming the Liturgy-Reforming the Church 119
5.1 Liturgy at Vatican II: Ressourcement-Development-Reform 119
5.2 Reform of the Liturgy-Reform from the Liturgy 125
5.3 Tradition, Language, and Style in the Liturgical Reform 132
5.4 Liturgy at a Crossroads 139
Chapter 6 The Liturgy of Vatican II and Fifty Years of the Conciliar Reception 145
6.1 The Anniversaries of Vatican II and the Liturgical Issue 145
6.2 The Liturgy of Vatican II and the Postconciliar Church 149
6.3 The Liturgical Reform and the Reception/Rejection of the Council 153
Conclusion 161
Bibliography 169
Index of Names 181
Index of Subjects 187
