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From Altar-Throne to Table: The Campaign for Frequent Holy Communion in the Catholic Church
Joseph Dougherty
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Description for From Altar-Throne to Table: The Campaign for Frequent Holy Communion in the Catholic Church
Hardback. Series: American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Monograph Series. Num Pages: 262 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCC7; HRCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 540.
From Altar-Throne to Table: The Campaign for Frequent Holy Communion in the Catholic Church investigates what the celebrated scholar of liturgy Robert A. Taft, SJ, calls the greatest and most successful liturgical reform in Catholic history. Only a century ago, faithful, practicing Catholics received Holy Communion only once a year; now, among American English-speaking Catholics, Holy Communion is a routine, weekly devotional practice. This book explains how and why this ritual sea-change happened. This book emphasizes that significant ritual change may occur while liturgical texts remain the same, and it also proposes a method for understanding the causes for ... Read more
From Altar-Throne to Table: The Campaign for Frequent Holy Communion in the Catholic Church investigates what the celebrated scholar of liturgy Robert A. Taft, SJ, calls the greatest and most successful liturgical reform in Catholic history. Only a century ago, faithful, practicing Catholics received Holy Communion only once a year; now, among American English-speaking Catholics, Holy Communion is a routine, weekly devotional practice. This book explains how and why this ritual sea-change happened. This book emphasizes that significant ritual change may occur while liturgical texts remain the same, and it also proposes a method for understanding the causes for ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
262
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Series
American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Monograph Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
262
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810871649
SKU
V9780810871649
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About Joseph Dougherty
Joseph Dougherty, a De la Salle Christian Brother, teaches in the Religion Department of La Salle University.
Reviews for From Altar-Throne to Table: The Campaign for Frequent Holy Communion in the Catholic Church
Dougherty provides an important introduction to this 'astonishingly swift' change in ritual practice…. From Altar-Throne to Table provides a much-needed analysis of a critical change in ritual practice during the complex of liturgical reform in the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Students of modern Catholic history, Catholic lay movements, and liturgical studies will find Dougherty's ... Read more