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Liturgy and Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

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It may be worthwhile in conclusion to recapitulate briefly my main train of thought. Because the Church is a human society directly gathered together by God, and since the liturgical assembly is what makes this society encounterable in the world, it follows that we must take the liturgical assembly as the prototype, or model, for any human organization which is to approximate itself to Christian ideals. For a Christian, the society brought into organic community by God must take precedence over any purely human and secular model. But what has tended in the past to obscure this insight has been the monolithic and institutional appearance of the Church.

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Research Article
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Copyright © 1963 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

Footnotes

1

The concluding chapter of a book with this title, to be published shortly in the Sheed and Ward Owlbook series.

References

2 cf. Graham Hough, summarizing the thesis of Margaret Mead in The Dark Sun (Pelican Books 1961) p. 269.

3 cf. the article on Theology and Disbelief, Life of The Spirit, Oct. 1962.

4 cf. the work of Dr Liam Hudson, of Cambridge, reported on in the Observer, of 11th Nov. 1962.

5 cf. J. M. Cameron, The Night Battle (London 1962), p. 66.