Teach Us to Pray: The Lord’s Prayer, Catechesis, and Ritual Reform in the Sixteenth Century

Katharine Mahon

doi:10.5771/9781978706859

Summary

The study of liturgical reform is usually undertaken through a close examination of liturgical texts. In order to consider the impact of reform on the worship life of Christians, Katharine Mahon takes a wider view of liturgy by considering the worship practices of Christian churches beyond what appears in the rites themselves. Looking at how Christians were taught how to pray and instructed in liturgical and sacramental participation, Mahon explores the late medieval patterns of Christian ritual formation and the transformation of these patterns in the sixteenth-century reforms of Martin Luther, Thomas Cranmer, and Roman Catholic leaders. She uses the Lord’s Prayer—the backbone of medieval lay catechesis, liturgical participation, and private prayer—to paint a panorama of medieval ritual formation integrated into the life of the church in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. She then follows the disintegration and reconstruction of that system of formation through the changing functions of the Lord’s Prayer in the official reforms of catechesis, liturgy, and prayer in the sixteenth-century.

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Edition: 1/2019
Copyright Year: 2019
ISBN-Print: 978-1-9787-0684-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-9787-0685-9
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 169
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1 The Lord’s Prayer No access Pages 1 - 10
2 The Ritual Functions of the Lord’s Prayer in Medieval Patterns of Christian Formation No access Pages 11 - 56
3 Reritualizing Catechesis No access Pages 57 - 88
4 Reritualizing Liturgical Participation No access Pages 89 - 116
5 Teaching How to Pray No access Pages 117 - 150
Conclusion No access Pages 151 - 154
Bibliography No access Pages 155 - 162
Index No access Pages 163 - 168
About the Author No access Pages 169 - 169