The Liturgy as an Essential Element of Catholicism

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  • 典礼の本質規定とカトリシスムをめぐるプロスペル・ゲランジェの議論
  • 典礼の本質規定とカトリシスムをめぐるプロスペル・ゲランジェの議論 : 三つの『オルレアン司教宛の書簡』から
  • テンレイ ノ ホンシツ キテイ ト カトリシスム オ メグル プロスペル ・ ゲランジェ ノ ギロン : ミッツ ノ 『 オルレアン シキョウアテ ノ ショカン 』 カラ
  • Guéranger's Argument with J.-J. Fayet
  • 三つの『オルレアン司教宛の書簡』から

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<p>When trying to understand the characteristic of modern Catholicism as a religion, it is important to see how the positive aspects of religious practice, including Church institutions, were placed and had significance in shaping religious truth. In this paper, I consider the three letters of Prosper Guéranger (1805-1875), Benedictine and abbot of Solesmes Abbey, addressed to the Bishop of Orléans in the context of the “Liturgical War” that arose in the confrontation between Ultramontanism and Gallicanism in nineteenthcentury France. In particular, I examine how the liturgy (with its positive nature) was defined and given a position in the religion and how Catholicism itself was re-framed through those arguments. In contrast to the bishop, who only emphasized internal matters as elements of religion, Guéranger connected external and concrete matters concerning the Church in the world with the domain of matters essential to religion, making their existence itself an essential element in Christian salvation. Further, these discussions led to rethinking the structure of the Christian truth and the nature of Catholicism as a religion. Beyond their specific context, however, Guéranger's discussions would also refer to the general tension in the relationship between absolute religious truth and the concreteness that religions must have in the first place.</p>

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