Sanctifying Texts, Transforming Rituals

Paul van Geest, S.T.L., Drs. Litt., PhD, is professor of Church History and the History of Theology at Tilburg University, head of the Centre for Patristic Studies at the University of Tilburg and the VU University Amsterdam (CPO). He has published extensively on Modern Devotion; Late Medieval Nominalism; Augustine’s theology, spirituality and reception; art of living and ethics in Early Christianity and mystagogy.Marcel Poorthuis, PhD, teaches interreligious dialogue at the Tilburg School of Theology. His dissertation dealt with the French-Jewish philosopher Immanuel Levinas. He published about Catholicism, Judaism, Buddhism and about Dutch perceptions of Islam (Van harem tot fitna, Nijmegen 2011).Els Rose, PhD, is senior lecturer Medieval Latin at Utrecht University. She received three grants in the national Innovation scheme (NWO), the first two dedicated to the relation between Christian apocryphal literature and liturgical texts in the early medieval West, the third (2017) to the development of a Christian ‘citizenship discourse’ as an expression of membership and belonging in the early Middle Ages.

"Im Ergebnis handelt es sich also eher um eine bunte Mischung vorwiegend sehr anspruchsvoller wissenschaftlicher Beiträge aus der Liturgiewissenschaft und der Judaistik, die damitaber das breite Interesse des Gefeierten widerspiegeltundsomit als Festschrift sehr gelungen ist." - Martin Lüstraeten, Mainz, in: Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 3/2018", pp. 499-501,

• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of FiguresAbbreviationsBibliography of Gerard RouwhorstOn the AuthorsContinuity and Renewal in Liturgical Studies: An IntroductionPaul van Geest, Marcel Poorthuis and Els RosePart 1 - TextsChapter 1 Conclusions Shaping Evidence: An Examination of the Scholarship Surrounding the Supposed Apostolic Tradition of HippolytusPaul BradshawChapter 2 Communion of Saints: The Function of Liturgical Scenes in Hagiographic TextsNienke VosChapter 3 Die Eucharistiefeier für die Toten. Theologische Motive und Neuakzentuierungen in der altrömischen und frühmittelalterlichenEuchologieMartin KlöckenerChapter 4 About Naked Women and Adam’s Body: The Syriac-Christian Cave of Treasures as a Source of Islamic StorytellingMarcel PoorthuisChapter 5 Provinciae et civitates ecclesiis plenae. Transformation of the civitates Indorum in the Apocryphal Acts and the Liturgical Commemoration of the Apostle ThomasEls RoseChapter 6 Non sufficit hec orare, sed et necesse est se purgare … Gabriel Biel’s Representation of the Intellect, the Will and Memory in his Canonis Missae ExpositioPaul van GeestPart 2 - RitualsChapter 7 Cosmos and Liturgy from Maximus the Confessor to Hans Urs von Balthasar (with an excursion on H.J. Schulz)Willemien OttenChapter 8 The Bishop and his Deacons. Ignatius of Antioch’s View on Ministry: Two-fold or Three-fold?Bart KoetChapter 9 Breaking the Fast: The Central Moment of the Paschal Celebration in Historical Context and Diachronic PerspectiveHarald BuchingerChapter 10 Body and Feast: The Liturgical Calendar of the Old Diocese of UtrechtCharles Caspers and Louis van TongerenChapter 11 Hallucination Depicted: God’s Name on Shiviti PlatesIlia M. RodovChapter 12 A Brief History of the Black MassRuben van LuijkChapter 13 The Roman Catholic Liturgy in the Postconciliar Time of TransitionGerard LukkenPart 3 - EncountersChapter 14 Shavuot, Covenant Renewal, and PentecostClemens LeonhardChapter 15 Will You Join Us for a Meal? Jewish and Christian Interaction in Early Council TextsElizabeth Boddens HosangChapter 16 Encounters in the Playground: Jewish and Christian Children at Play in Roman-Byzantine PalestineJoshua SchwartzChapter 17 Heresy as ImpurityDaniela MüllerChapter 18 Disciplina Arcani: Modern Avatars of Christian Ritual SecrecyPaul PostChapter 19 Liturgical Language and Vernacular Tongues in Eastern ChristianityBert GroenBibliographyIndex