Acting Liturgically

David Grumett, Ecclesiology Philosophers of religion have classically engaged with topics such as God's existence and attributes, the problem of evil, and the question of miracles. Ritual, in contrast, has often been viewed as the preserve of religious studies scholars. In this dense but thoughtful collection based on work produced over several decades, Nicholas Wolterstorff corrects both of these assumptions by bringing strictly philosophical tools to bear on Christian liturgy. The Yale philosophical theologian attends to actions and texts, and in so doing endorses the turns to religious experience and to language that characterize contemporary philosophy of religion.

James M. Arcadi, Reading Religion This book is provocative, instructive, and should achieve the author's intention of catalyzing a new research program ... Acting Liturgically will be an essential guide

Nicholas Wolterstorff is Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, Yale University. He has been President of the American Philosophical Association, and of the Society of Christian Philosophers; he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among the lectures he has given are the Wilde Lectures at Oxford University, the Gifford Lectures at St Andrews University, and the Stone Lectures at Princeton Seminary. He has published over twenty books including On Universals, Works and Worlds of Art, Art in Action, Until Justice and Peace Embrace, Reason within the Bounds of Religion, Divine Discourse, John Locke and the Ethics of Belief, Thomas Reid and the Story of Epistemology, Educating for Shalom, Lament for a Son, Justice: Rights and Wrongs and Justice in Love.

PART ONE: LITURGY, ENACTMENTS, AND SCRIPTS; PART TWO: LITURGY AND SCRIPTURE; PART THREE: GOD IN THE LITURGY; PART FOUR: LITURGY, LOVE, AND JUSTICE