Kult jako objawienie. Koncepcja liturgii L.P. Hemminga
Worship as a revelation. The concept of liturgy by L.P. Hemming

Summary/Abstract: The Concept of Liturgy by L.P. Hemming is a revelatory concept. God reveals Himself in the liturgy and communicates the essential truths of faith, which are focused on Christ. The aim of the liturgy is not only to celebrate the mysteries of the faith now, but even more so, to move towards the eternal life, which is why, according to Hemming, the liturgy has an eschatological and soteriological dimension. Although the author respects the changes that have taken place over the centuries in the history of the liturgy, he also takes an attitude full of honour and understanding for the past centuries. At the same time, he is looking for an appropriate approach of the faithful to celebrate the liturgy. One may call it an accepting attitude. Without analysing the rites themselves in detail, he criticises the changes that have taken place in the Catholic Church as a result of the liturgical reform of the Church which had began as early as the beginning of the 20th century. The author, based on an in-depth philosophical and theological analysis, comes to the conclusion that the right attitude in the liturgy is not its creation, which he compares it a soulless production, but entering into mystery – not a rationalistic understanding in the spirit of the Enlightenment – but a kind of spiritual tasting. In this paper we wanted to show the current of thinking about liturgy presented by Hemming and its effects, which concentrate the liturgy on eschatology, soteriology and constitute a kind of contemporary latreutic current of perception of liturgy, i.e. focused on the glory of God and not on human affirmation.

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