Fictions of Containment in the Spanish Female Picaresque

Fictions of Containment in the Spanish Female Picaresque

Architectural Space and Prostitution in the Early Modern Mediterranean

While only rarely reflecting explicitly on liturgy, French philosopher Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) gave sustained attention to several themes pertinent to the interpretation of worship, including metaphor, narrative, subjectivity, and memory. Inspired by his well-known aphorism, “The symbol gives rise to thought,” Liturgical Theology after Schmemann offers an original exploration of the symbolic world of the Byzantine Rite , culminating in a Ricoeurian analysis of its Theophany “Great Blessing of Water.” .

The book examines two fundamental questions: 1) what are the implications of the philosopher’s oeuvre for liturgical theology at large? And 2)how does the adoption of a Ricoeurian hermeneutic shape the study of a particular rite? Taking the seminal legacy of Orthodox theologian Alexander Schmemann (1921-1983) as its point of departure, Butcher contributes to the renewal of contemporary Eastern Christian thought and ritual practice by engaging a spectrum of current theological and philosophical conversations.

  • Cover
  • LITURGICAL THEOLOGY AFTER SCHMEMANN
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • CONTENTS
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • PART I: “HOW WILL THE LAMP ENLIGHTEN THE LIGHT?”
    • 1 “After Schmemann”: Introducing Ricoeur into the Conversation
    • 2 Western Perspectives
  • PART II: “NO TONGUE CAN HYMN YOUR WONDERS”
    • 3 Meaning in/and Metaphor
    • 4 At the Intersection of the Via Positiva and the Via Negativa
  • PART III: “TODAY YOU HAVE APPEARED TO THE WORLD”
    • 5 “The Summoned Subject”
    • 6 Truth as Attestation
    • 7 Liturgical Time, Narrative, Memory, and History
  • PART IV: “THE VOICE OF THE LORD CRIES OUT UPON THE WATERS”
    • 8 Manifestation and Proclamation
    • Conclusion
    • Appendix: “Service of the Great Blessing of the Waters”
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index