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Welcoming Finitude

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Welcoming Finitude provides a philosophical (i.e., phenomenological) examination of the experience of liturgy, based on the example of Orthodox Christian liturgy, as it manifests in terms of time, ...
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  • 01 October 2019
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What does it mean to experience and engage in religious ritual? How does liturgy structure time and space? How do our bodies move within liturgy, and what impact does it have on our senses? How does the experience of ritual affect us and shape our emotions or dispositions? How is liturgy experienced as a communal event, and how does it form the identity of those who participate in it? Welcoming Finitude explores these broader questions about religious experience by focusing on the manifestation of liturgical experience in the Eastern Christian tradition. Drawing on the methodological tools of contemporary phenomenology and on insights from liturgical theology, the book constitutes a philosophical exploration of Orthodox liturgical experience.
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Price: $123.00
Pages: 352
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Imprint: Fordham University Press
Series: Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought
Publication Date: 01 October 2019
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780823286430
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, RELIGION / Christianity / Orthodox
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Gschwandtner writes with a welcome transparency and obvious wellspring of knowledge that runs extremely deep. . . . [S]cholars of whatever sort will find food for thought in Gschwandtner’s work and an addition to the subfield of the phenomenology of religion that is ready for comparison with other studies that either do not overtly cover liturgical matters or do so from a differing tradition.

Preface | ix

Acknowledgments | xxi

Introduction | 1

1 Temporality | 31

2 Spatiality | 57

3 Corporeality | 80

4 Sensoriality | 101

5 Affectivity | 125

6 Community | 146

7 Intentionality | 167

Conclusion | 189

Notes | 205

Bibliography | 275

Index | 299