Liturgical Mysticism
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Some think that liturgy is formal, public, and for ordinary people, while mysticism is uncontrollable, private, and for extraordinary saints. Is there a connection between the two? In this volume, David Fagerberg proposes that mysticism is the normal crowning of the Christian life, and the Christian life is liturgical.
We intuitively sense that liturgy and theology and mysticism have an affinity. Liturgical theology should reveal liturgy’s mystical heart. Liturgical theology asks “What happens in liturgy?” and liturgical mysticism asks “What happens to us in liturgy?”, and perfects our interior liturgy.
In Liturgical Mysticism, Fagerberg directs the reader to look fixedly at Christ, who is the Mystery present in liturgy, and who bestows his resurrection power upon his adopted children.
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- Directs the reader to look fixedly at Christ
- Proposes that mysticism is the normal crowning of the Christian life, and the Christian life is liturgical
- Articulates how the Mystery is embodied and lived by those who partake in the Church’s sacramental worship
- An Enthralling Liturgy
- Ordinary Liturgical Mysticism
- Quickening the Liturgical Person
- The Narrow Gate
- The Path through Cross to Resurrection
- The Pathway Home
- Coming Home
In a time where both too wild and too mild spiritualities abound, it is audacious to put forward a book on liturgical mysticism. [This book] continues to enrich liturgical theology by amplifying its horizon and solidifying the foundation on which it rests.
—Joris Geldhof, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
David Fagerberg is establishing a unique voice. The language and the vivid images he develops are his response to being deeply stunned by the liturgy and all that happens in its celebration.
—Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, O.S.B., Mount Angel Abbey
[Fagerberg’s] words move the whole person to desire worship and the life that is given therein, holiness. His prose elicits prayer and wonder and thus silence and contemplation.
—Deacon James Keating, Institute for Priestly Formation, Creighton University
In Liturgical Mysticism, Fagerberg continues his articulation of how the Mystery is embodied and lived by those who partake in the Church’s sacramental worship, which is itself a participation in the eternal ‘liturgy’ of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
—Msgr. Michael Heintz, Mount St Mary’s Seminary
- Title: Liturgical Mysticism
- Author: David W. Fagerberg
- Publisher: Emmaus Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2019
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Pages: 171
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Mysticism › Catholic Church; Catholic Church › Liturgy
- ISBNs: 9781949013672, 9781949013689, 1949013677, 1949013685
- Resource ID: LLS:LTRGCLMYSTCSM
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:16:39Z
David W. Fagerberg is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. He was the former acting director and associate professor of liturgical studies at The Liturgical Institute, University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein, Illinois. He holds an MDIV from Luther Northwestern Seminary; an MA in liturgical studies from St. John’s University, Collegeville; an STM from Yale Divinity School; and a PHD in liturgical theology from Yale University. Publications include “The Size of Chesterton's Catholicism” (University of Notre Dame Press, 1998) as well as journal articles in “Worship”, "America”, “New Blackfriars”, “Pro Ecclesia”, “Diakonia”, and “Antiphon”.