SUVREMENA LITURGIJSKA TEOLOGIJA: ZNAK I OBREDNO UZBILJENJE OTAJSTVA
CONTEMPORARY LITURGICAL THEOLOGY: SIGN AND RITUAL REALISATION OF THE MYSTERY

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to acknowledge the new movements in the special branch of theology – liturgical theology – by emphasising the anthropological dimension of the ritual and the need for the revaluation of the ritual system and its symbolic structure. It also points to some difficulties that have occurred recently; such as the specific “desymbolisation”, the loss of horizons of sense encouraged by post-modern movements that lack holistic approach. This approach is the basic feature of rituality. Liturgical celebration in the variant of Christian distinctiveness includes the realisation of the wholeness of the encounter with God by force of dynamics of Christ’s incarnation. That is why the author sees our pastoral practice with the need for something he calls “theological-anthropological hygiene” of the ritual, for symbol is “vindictive”. Any attempt to determine the symbolical impoverishes liturgy, turning it into trivial ceremonialism.

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