| Abstrakt: |
Modern liturgy in all churches has been influenced by the Vatican II document, Sacrosanctum Concilium, which is fifty years old in December 2013. Many regard these changes as positive, but they have also received criticism not only from conservative forces within the Catholic Chuch who seek to return to earlier values in liturgy, but also from those who see them as products of a particular time and generation within Western Christianity, not relevant to postmodern culture. Although the context and worshipping needs of the contemporary Church may be very different from those of 1963, there are still lessons to be learned from that document and the Liturgical Movement that gave rise to it, as Christians draw on the liturgical tradition to develop new forms of worship in twenty-first century Britain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
