Practical Theology - Liturgics - RETA6041

• Title: PTP-Practical Theology - Liturgics
• Guaranteed by: Department of Practical Theology (27-PT)
• Faculty: Protestant Theological Faculty
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: summer
• Points: 2
• E-Credits: 2
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. Tabita Landová, Ph.D.
• Pre-requisite : RETA6100

Annotation

The course presents the theology, history and current shape of the Christian liturgical gathering in an ecumenical
context. It also introduces students to the issues of liturgical criteria. The aim of the course is to provide them basic
knowledge and hermeneutical tools to the understanding and critical reflection of liturgy which are necessary for
the liturgical production in different situations and liturgical traditions.
The structure of the course:
1. The introduction into the liturgics: basic terms and approaches, sources and literature
2. The history of liturgy: biblical patterns, the Ancient church, Reformation, the Second Vatican Council
3. The mystery of the worship: the theological perspective
4. The worship service as a ritual and symbolic communication: the anthropological perspective
5. The structure of the liturgy
6. The word and words in liturgy
7. The Eucharist
8. The liturgy and ethics
9. Liturgia semper reformanda: the liturgical renewal and its criteria
10. The liturgical time: Sunday, the liturgical year, the linear or cyclical concept of time
11. The liturgical space: house of God or the house of the people of God?

Last update: Vančová Eliška, Mgr. (01.06.2020)

Course completion requirements

Regular class attendance and successful completion of the final test are required to receive credit. 

Last update: Landová Tabita, doc., Ph.D. (02.09.2022)

Literature

GIBBONS R. House of God: House of the People of God. London: SPCK, 2006. ISBN 0-281-05762-1

HUGHES G. Worship as Meaning. A Liturgical Theology for Late Modernity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2003. ISBN 0-521-82851-1

CHAUVET L.-M. Symbol and Sacrament: a Sacramental Reinterpretation of Christian Existence. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1995. ISBN 0-8146-6124-6

LATHROP G. Holy Things. A Liturgical Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998. ISBN 0-8006-2727-X

LUKKEN G. Rituals in Abundance. Critical Reflections on the Place, Form and Identity of Christian Ritual in Our Culture, Leuven: Peeters, 2005. ISBN 90-429-1517-X

OLD H. O. The reading and preaching of the scriptures in the worship of the Christian church. Volume 1-10, Grand-Rapids, Mich., Cambridge, UK: William Eerdmans, 1998-2010. ISBN 978-0-8028-1771-6

OLD H. O. Worship. Reformed according to Scripture. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002. ISBN 0-664-22579-9

RICE H. L., HUFFSTUTLER J. C. Reformed worship. Louisville: Geneva 2001. ISBN 0-664-50147-8

WAINWRIGHT G., WESTERFIELD T. K. B. (eds.). The Oxford History of Christian Worship. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN 0-19-513886-4

WAKEFIELD G. S. An outline of Christian Worship. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 2000. ISBN 0-567-08741-7

Last update: Vančová Eliška, Mgr. (01.06.2020)