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"In Cosmos, Liturgy, and the Arts, Margot E. Fassler unfurls the ways in which Christian theologians and scientists in the twelfth century thought about the universe, not only in their treatises and scientific calculations, but also in their ecclesiology, their visual arts, music, poetry, and drama. It is only through accounting for all these dimensions of understanding that a sense of the whole can be achieved, for this work, Fassler shows, the Benedictine nun Hildegard of Bingen and her Scivias, her collection of twenty-six religious visions, offer a unique and skillful guide. Fassler examines the connections between Hildegard's formation as a nun, the ways in which she would have experienced and understood the liturgy, and the medieval liturgy's cosmological underpinnings. Exploring how the Feast of All Saints, the day of the nuns' consecration, informs Scivias, Fassler leads readers through the six stages of creation, or the hexameron, as Hildegard understood them, beginning with her beliefs about time before time and matter before matter. Her hexameron is rooted in her own creation as a consecrated virgin, divinely commissioned to write down her visions, the most famous of which presents the universe as "a huge form, rounded and shadowy, and shaped like an egg" from which all emerges until that point at which, its God-given purpose fulfilled, it ceases to exist. Though this view of the cosmos, its creation and workings, is far removed from modern understandings, Fassler's analysis reveals how Hildegard's dynamic and systematic understanding resonates with contemporary issues in a surprising number of ways. To know Hildegard's views both as expressed in this treatise and in its illuminations and songs is to gain otherwise unattainable knowledge about the past and about medieval cosmological investigations in their multidisciplinary splendor"--

Cosmology, Medieval. --- Liturgy and the arts. --- Hildegard, --- Catholic Church --- Liturgy --- History

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How does worship work? How exactly does liturgical formation shape us? What are the dynamics of such transformation? In the second of James K. A. Smith's three-volume theology of culture, the author expands and deepens the analysis of cultural liturgies and Christian worship he developed in his well-received Desiring the Kingdom. He helps us understand and appreciate the bodily basis of habit formation and how liturgical formation--both "secular" and Christian--affects our fundamental orientation to the world. Worship "works" by leveraging our bodies to transform our imagination, and it does this through stories we understand on a register that is closer to body than mind. This has critical implications for how we think about Christian formation. Professors and students will welcome this work as will pastors, worship leaders, and Christian educators. The book includes analyses of popular films, novels, and other cultural phenomena, such as The King's Speech, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, and Facebook.

Worship. --- Liturgics. --- Liturgy and the arts. --- Imagination. --- Philosophical anthropology. --- Imagination --- Liturgics --- Liturgy and the arts --- Philosophical anthropology --- Worship --- 264 --- Cult --- Cultus --- Religion --- Theology, Practical --- Fire-worshipers --- Anthropology, Philosophical --- Man (Philosophy) --- Civilization --- Life --- Ontology --- Humanism --- Persons --- Philosophy of mind --- Arts and liturgy --- Arts --- Liturgiology --- Liturgy --- Public worship --- Liturgies --- Imagery, Mental --- Images, Mental --- Mental imagery --- Mental images --- Educational psychology --- Intellect --- Psychology --- Reproduction (Psychology) --- Philosophy

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Liturgy --- Art --- anno 500-1499 --- Liturgy and art --- Liturgics --- Art, Medieval --- Christian art and symbolism --- Liturgie et art --- Liturgie --- Art médiéval --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- History --- Congresses --- Histoire --- Congrès --- Liturgy and the arts --- Church history --- Catholic Church --- Art médiéval --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Congrès --- Congresses. --- Art, Medieval - Congresses --- Liturgy and the arts - Congresses --- Christian art and symbolism - Medieval, 500-1500 - Congresses --- Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500 - Congresses --- Catholic Church - Liturgy - Congresses --- Moyen Age

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This book thrusts the reader into the intellectual turmoil of medieval Europe. In interrelated studies of largely unexplored material dating from the ninth through to the fourteenth centuries, the contributors explore changes in functions and forms of liturgical poetry and music, and of biblical interpretation.Although the twelfth century constitutes the main focus, the phenomena dealt with here had roots in earlier times and remained in circulation in later centuries. The cultural heritage of the Carolingian intellectuals tied to the palace school of Charles the Bald is examined in a liturgical context. Forms and ideas from this period were reused and transformed in the twelfth century, as represented here by sequences, tropes, Abelard’s poetry, the Gloss to Lamentations, and ritual representations or ‘liturgical drama’. The two final chapters treat fourteenth-century uses and understandings of Boethius’s De institutione musica and the new genre of sequence commentaries, both dealing with later medieval views on music theory and liturgical poetry from an earlier period, thus connecting the end of the book to its beginning. The sections are interspersed with philosophical reflections on overriding themes of the contributions. The volume concludes with an anthology of poetic texts in Latin with English translations and musical transcriptions.

Bible --- Christian pastoral theology --- anno 500-1499 --- Liturgical drama --- Drama, Medieval --- Liturgy and poetry --- Church music --- Drame liturgique --- Théâtre médiéval --- Liturgie et poésie --- Musique d'église --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Homiletical use --- History --- Liturgy and the arts --- Church history --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Christianity --- 264 "04/14" --- Liturgie--Middeleeuwen --- 264 "04/14" Liturgie--Middeleeuwen --- Théâtre médiéval --- Liturgie et poésie --- Musique d'église --- Arts and liturgy --- Arts --- Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Commentaries --- Biblia --- History and criticism --- Drama [Medieval ] --- To 1500 --- 15th century