Biblical and Parabiblical Women in Late Antique Christian Lliturgy: An Eclectic Overview
In Christian liturgy, saints appear in three prominent places: firstly and perhaps most importantly, feasts of the sanctoral cycle of annual celebrations are dedicated to the veneration of particular figures; the exchange of such sanctoral commemorations is also a medium for networking between diffe...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Peeters
[2020]
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| In: |
Ephemerides theologicae Lovanienses
Year: 2020, Volume: 96, Issue: 3, Pages: 537-562 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Female saint
/ Liturgy
/ Jerusalem
/ Byzantine liturgy
/ Liturgy
/ History 400-1100
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| RelBib Classification: | KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KAC Church history 500-1500; Middle Ages KCD Hagiography; saints NBE Anthropology RC Liturgy |
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| Summary: | In Christian liturgy, saints appear in three prominent places: firstly and perhaps most importantly, feasts of the sanctoral cycle of annual celebrations are dedicated to the veneration of particular figures; the exchange of such sanctoral commemorations is also a medium for networking between different communities and regions. Secondly, lists of saints are commemorated in the intercessions of Eucharistic prayers, that is, a structural component in which the universal communion of those partaking in the Eucharist comes to be developed. While these saints come from both the Bible and - much more dominantly - from Christian history, a third function is reserved for biblical and parabiblical characters: paradigms from the Bible are invoked in certain prayers either as examples of God’s salvific activity or as role models for those for whose benefit the prayer is spoken. In this article, all three categories are surveyed in the liturgy of late antique Jerusalem, the 'mother of all churches', and in the Byzantine and Roman liturgies as those which have become the dominant rites of Eastern and Western Christianity. |
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| ISSN: | 1783-1423 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Ephemerides theologicae Lovanienses
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/ETL.96.3.3288590 |