Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Christian Liturgy
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Christian Liturgy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Liturgy Throughout the Ages
- Part II The Celebration of the Liturgy
- Part III Liturgy and the Arts
- Part IV Liturgy and the Life of the Churches
- 14 Liturgy, the Body, and the Senses
- 15 Liturgy, Spirituality, and Piety
- 16 Liturgy and Pastoral Ministry
- 17 Liturgy and the Proclamation of the Word
- 18 Liturgy and Ecumenism
- 19 Liturgy and the Religions of the World
- Part V The Study of Liturgy
- Bibliography
- Names Index
- Concepts and Places Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion ()
- References
15 - Liturgy, Spirituality, and Piety
from Part IV - Liturgy and the Life of the Churches
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 September 2025
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Christian Liturgy
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Christian Liturgy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Liturgy Throughout the Ages
- Part II The Celebration of the Liturgy
- Part III Liturgy and the Arts
- Part IV Liturgy and the Life of the Churches
- 14 Liturgy, the Body, and the Senses
- 15 Liturgy, Spirituality, and Piety
- 16 Liturgy and Pastoral Ministry
- 17 Liturgy and the Proclamation of the Word
- 18 Liturgy and Ecumenism
- 19 Liturgy and the Religions of the World
- Part V The Study of Liturgy
- Bibliography
- Names Index
- Concepts and Places Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion ()
- References
Summary
Focusing on the often too easily neglected concept of piety, Job Getcha sheds light on the natural bond between liturgy and spirituality. It would be erroneous to see them simply as the objective or communal and subjective or individual sides of the same reality, since an argument can be set up that spirituality itself is as liturgical as the liturgy is spiritual.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Christian Liturgy , pp. 268 - 282Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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Afanassieff, Nicolas, The Church of the Holy Spirit (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Bynum, Caroline Walker, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987).Google Scholar
Getcha, Job, Participants de la nature divine: La spiritualité orthodoxe à l’âge de la sécularisation (Paris: Apostolia, 2020).Google Scholar
Mikalson, John, Honor Thy Gods: Popular Religion in Greek Tragedy (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1991).Google Scholar
Schmemann, Alexander, The Eucharist: Sacrament of the Kingdom, tranKachur, s. Paul (Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1988).Google Scholar
Schmemann, Alexander, For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy (Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1973).Google Scholar
Taft, Robert, The Liturgy of the Hours in East and West (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1985).Google Scholar
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