Heresy of Formlessness
by Martin Mosebach
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Author: Martin MosebachBrand: Ignatius Press
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); German (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-09-30
ISBN: 1586171275
Number of pages: 220
Publisher: Ignatius Press
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Book Review: A moving case for the old rite
Summary: 4 Stars
Mosebach gives a convincing and moving case for the return of the old rite. He stresses the old rite as an essential part of the life of the Church. The Church is not just a collection of like-minded individuals. Rather, it is an organic, living entity with the Holy Spirit as its soul, and the liturgy as its form. It is the very nature of true liturgy to not be designed but rather to grow as the expression of the Mystical Body's reflexive outpouring of adoration for its head. Once the liturgy started to be dissected and analyzed, it was already dying. When new ones were designed, the spirit of liturgy was gone. Mosebach has little good to say about so-called liturgists, and other scholars who think they are so learned that they can decide what is essential and what is ancillary in the liturgy. This is like going into a great cathedral, that was built, maintained, and added to over the centuries, and judging the whole in terms of, say, baroque architecture. Well, you might say, the sculpture behind the alter is a fine piece of art, but the alter itself is a gothic corruption, or this spire over here is clearly a result of the foolishness of Romanesque. From within our own cultural context we are in no position to judge the liturgy. What we find to be corruption, repetitive, or incomprehensible, was none of those things to an early generation of Christians, and may not be to a future generation. The liturgy as the reason for the Church, transcends any given time and place, like the Church herself. No man is in a position to make objective criticisms. Rather, the Christian should surrender to the mystery and the majesty of the living expression of Christ's love for his Church and that Church's unfailing worship of its creator and savior. Overall, Mosebach writes a great book. It is not theology per se. But that, I think, is part of his point.
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