Recent Issues of Liturgy — Liturgical Conference

While postcolonial perspectives on liturgy are relatively recent, its pioneers and their robust views are well represented in the essays that follow. Their contributions address a series of foci—baptism; reading, proclamation, and prayer in ministry of the word; orders; and silence.

David TurnbloomOctober 17, 2019

Liturgy 34.1: Confession and Reconciliation

In the following seven essays, theologians across the Christian ecumenical spectrum describe and analyze liturgical confession of faith and confession of sin, reconciliation in sacramental rite and in a fragmented society, from a wealth of historical, traditional, and critical perspectives.

David TurnbloomOctober 17, 2019

Liturgy 33.4: Communities of Musical Practice

This concept, “communities of musical practice,” is the focus of this issue of Liturgy. In the essays that follow, we have attempted to provide a diverse, though necessarily limited, exploration of several distinct musical communities.