Remembering The Future: The Experience Of Time In Jewish And Christian Liturgy

Synopsis

Common To Both Judaism And Christianity Is A Heightened Engagement With Time Within Liturgical Practice, In Which Collective Religious Memory And Anticipation Come Together To Create A Unique Sense Of Time. Exploring The Nebulous Realms Of Religious Experience And The Sense Of Time, Remembering The Future Charts The Ways That The Experience Of Time Is Shaped By The Traditions Of Judaism And Christianity And Experienced Within Their Ritual Practices. Through Comparative Explorations Of Traditional Jewish And Christian Understandings Of Time, Contemporary Oral Testimonies, And Discussions Of The Work Of Select Twentieth-century Jewish And Christian Thinkers, This Book Maps The Temporal Landscapes Of The Religious Imagination. Maintaining That The Sense Of Time Is Integral To Jewish And Christian Religious Experience, Remembering The Future Makes A Notable Contribution To Interreligious Studies And Liturgical Studies. It Sheds Light On Essential Aspects Of Religious Experience And Finds That The Intimacy Of The Experience Of Time Grants It The Capacity To Communicate Across Religious Boundaries, Subtly Transgressing Obstacles To Interreligious Understanding. The Liturgical Experience Of Time -- Liturgical Time -- The Elusiveness Of Experience -- In Their Words -- Be-khol Dor Va-dor: In Every Generation -- As It Was In The Beginning, Is Now, And Ever Shall Be -- The Experience Of Time In Jewish Liturgy -- Time In Jewish Thought -- Memory And Anticipation In Jewish Liturgy -- The Experience Of Time In Christian Liturgy -- Time In Christian Thought -- The Sanctification Of Time: Memory And Anticipation In The Liturgy Of The Hours -- Performing Time -- The Liturgical Transformation Of Time: Ritual, Repetition, And Flow -- Liturgy, Time, And Interreligious Learning -- Why Remember, Why Hope? Emma O'donnell. A Pueblo Book. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.