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Title: From Altar-Throne to Table
Condition: New
EAN: 9780810871649
ISBN: 9780810871649
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 04/16/2010
Item Height: 239mm
Item Length: 164mm
Item Width: 22mm
Item Weight: 540g
Author: Joseph Dougherty
Language: English
Subtitle: The Campaign for Frequent Holy Communion in the Catholic Church
ISBN-10: 0810871645
Description: From Altar-Throne to Table: The Campaign for Frequent Holy Communion in the Catholic Church investigates what the celebrated scholar of liturgy Robert A. Taft, SJ, calls the greatest and most successful liturgical reform in Catholic history. Only a century ago, faithful, practicing Catholics received Holy Communion only once a year; now, among American English-speaking Catholics, Holy Communion is a routine, weekly devotional practice. This book explains how and why this ritual sea-change happened. This book emphasizes that significant ritual change may occur while liturgical texts remain the same, and it also proposes a method for understanding the causes for such a ritual change. It admonishes not to project current ritual practice into even our recent past. Further, it implies an explanation for the massive decline in Catholics' use of the sacrament of reconciliation.
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Book Series: ATLA Monograph Series
Release Year: 2010

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