Wiley Blackwell Companion to Liturgical Theology

PORTER C. TAYLOR is Rector of St. David’s by the Sea Episcopal Church in Cocoa Beach, Florida, and Affiliate Assistant Professor of Christian Worship at Fuller Theological Seminary. He is Contributing Editor of We Give Our Thanks Unto Thee and his first monograph, A Re-Introduction to Liturgical Theology, will also be published by Wiley Blackwell in 2025. KHALIA J. WILLIAMS is Associate Dean of Worship and Spiritual Formation, Associate Professor in the Practice of Worship, and Co-Director of the Baptist Studies Program at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. She is the co-author of A Worship Workbook and the co-editor of Theological Foundations of Worship.

• Notes on Contributors xForeword xivIntroduction xviPorter C. Taylor and Khalia J. WilliamsI. Liturgical Theology: What It Is 11 What Is Liturgical Theology?: One North American Lutheran View 3Gordon W. Lathrop2 Liturgical Theology and the Trinity: The Mission, Vision, and Values of the Church and the Christian Life 15Neal D. Presa3 The Liturgical Strange Wisdom of Dusty Shoes: Some Reflections on Liturgical Anthropology for “Post-Truth” Times 29Jill Y. Crainshaw4 Methodology and Liturgical Ecclesiology 40Ronald Rienstra5 Jewish Liturgical Theology: Knowing and Loving God 61Steven Kepnes6 Liturgy, Apocalypse, and Practice: Reflections on Mystagogical Instruction 76Catherine Pickstock7 Marmion’s Meditations on the Mysteries of Christ as an Incentive for Liturgical Theology Today 89Joris Geldhof8 Feminist Liturgical Theology: A Dynamic, Evolving Process 107Janet Walton9 A Womanist Liturgical Theology: Sacred Practices and Embodied Resistance 117Khalia J. Williams10 Knowing God by Liturgically Addressing God 129Nicholas Wolterstorff Copyrighted MaterialII. Liturgical Theology: What It Does 14911 Birthing New Liturgies: A Historical Account of the Churching of Women and a Call to Revision and Revival 151Zoe Cordes Selbin12 A Rite Re-ordered, A Rite Restored: The Churching of a Woman After Childbirth 162Porter C. Taylor13 Baptismal Waters: Bookends of Life and Mission 178Susan K. Wood14 Confirmation 190Bridget Nichols15 Jesus’ Leitourgia and Paschal Mystery: Essential for Eucharist and Liturgical Theology 206Porter C. Taylor16 Broken Whole: Christian Reflections on the Eucharistic Fraction in a Comparative-Interreligious Light 228James W. Farwell17 May These Vows and This Marriage Be Blessed 242Julie Gittoes18 Holy Orders: Sacramental Service to the Church’s Sacramentality 255Bruce T. Morrill19 Rethinking the Mystery of Reconciliation in the Liturgical Context 266Nicholas Denysenko20 The Healing Ministry of the Church: For the Sick and for the Dying 280Lizette Larson-MillerIII. Liturgical Theology: Moving Forward 29521 Trauma, Liturgy, and Traumatic Liturgy 297Karen O’Donnell22 Liturgical Aesthetics, Semiotics, and Desiring God: Methodological Horizons in Liturgical Theology 311Timothy P. O’Malley23 Decolonizing Preaching as a Liturgical Act 326Sarah Travis24 Disabling Liturgical Theology 338Rebecca F. Spurrier25 Joy and Suffering in Liturgy 351Armand Léon van Ommen26 Liturgical Theology and the Liturgical Life of the Syro-Malabar Church 364Sr. Maryann Madhavathu27 Liturgeography–The Law of the Land as the Law of Liturgeographical Theologies 379Cláudio Carvalhaes28 Liturgical Theology and Postcolonialism 393Kristine Suna-Koro29 In the Beginning Was Song … 409Becca Whitla30 Engraved Upon Our Hearts: The Creeds in Worship 424Amy C. Schifrin31 Encountering Christ: A Womanist Exploration of Chauvet’s Symbolic Exchange in Communion 440Khalia J. Williams32 A Praise and Worship Theology of Music: The Tabernacle of David as Typological Prism 458Adam A. PerezIndex 472