A New Song for the Lord

During the years of the liturgical movement and during the Council's liturgical reform, many believed that the question of a liturgical model was a purely pragmatic matter: trying to achieve an understandable celebration. Today it is clear that the liturgy touches on such important questions as our understanding of God and the world, and our relationship with Christ, with the Church and with ourselves: the destiny of faith and the Church is at stake in it. In this book, Joseph Ratzinger lays the foundations of the theology of liturgical celebration and opens the Christological perspective of any reflection on the reality of this celebration.

JOSEPH RATZINGER

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