Worshiping Body

Joris Geldhof is Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He previously served as professor of liturgical studies and sacramental theology at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. He is the author of Liturgy and Secularism: Beyond the Divide (Liturgical Press, 2018), Liturgical Theology as a Research Program (Brill, 2020), and Monotheism in Christian Liturgy (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Joris is also a past president of the international ecumenical Societas Liturgica and a member of the Malines Conversations Group. Samuel Goyvaerts is associate professor of liturgical studies and sacramental theology at the Tilburg School of Catholic Theology (TST), Tilburg University, The Netherlands. Recent publications of Goyvaerts are on pastoral liturgy, liturgical formation, and the relation between liturgy and church architecture. Goyvaerts also serves as vice-dean for education at his faculty, is a board member of Societas Liturgica, the Liturgical Institute, the Institute for Ritual and Liturgical Studies (IRiLiS) and co-editor of the international peer-reviewed journal Questions Liturgiques. Tom McLean is a doctoral candidate in the faculty of theology and religious studies at KU Leuven, Belgium, writing his dissertation on the development of the sacramental theology of Edward Schillebeeckx. Recent publications have appeared in Louvain Studies, Questions Liturgiques, and The Heythrop Journal.

"Eight expert theologians here elucidate and constructively build upon the sacramental-liturgical essays of Marie-Dominique Chenu, one of the most important but lesser-known figures in the ressourcement movement that shaped the documents of Vatican II and the ensuing renewal of the church and sacraments. I expect that, like myself, readers of this volume will arrive at a deep sense of gratitude—gratitude for Chenu’s courageous, learned, pastoral, and generative work. But gratitude, also, for this colloquium’s critical advancement of Chenu’s fecund insights into the bodily, symbolic, ritual character of liturgy, joining nature and mystery, anthropology and theology, history and revelation, culture and tradition."Bruce T. Morrill, SJ, distinguished professor of theology, Vanderbilt University Divinity School

• ContentsOriginal Publications   viiIntroduction   1Tom McLeanChenu in Context   15Mary Kate HolmanPart One: Five Articles by Marie-Dominique ChenuAnthropology and Liturgy (1947)   33The Sacraments in the Christian Economy (1952)   47Faith and Sacrament (1962)   59Anthropology of the Liturgy (1967)   69For a Sacramental Anthropology (1974)   91Part Two: Seven Essays by Contemporary ScholarsA Faith That Holds to the Body   109Olivier PraudLiturgical Theology as Fundamental Theology   121Stephan van ErpContemporary Challenges for Sacramental Theology   135Joris GeldhofAn Interaction with Aquinas’s Theology   147Harm GorisThe Symbolic Gesture, Moved by Mystery  161Willem Marie SpeelmanPerspectives from Feminist Theology   175Susan K. RollPastoral Liturgical Perspectives   187Samuel GoyvaertsAfterword: The Myriad Chenu—Rereading the World as Sacrament   201Karim Schelkens