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Homilia w osmozie z teologią liturgiczną
A Homily in Osmosis with Liturgical Theology

Author(s): Ks. Stanisław Dyk
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion, Systematic Theology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Papieskiego Jana Pawła II w Krakowie
Keywords: the mystery of salvation; homily; liturgical theology; liturgy; mystagogy; theological synthesis

Summary/Abstract: The new Homiletic directory presents a synthesis of the homily as the Word of God, the celebration of the liturgy and Christian life (cf. DH 12–14). According to it, a homily is an example of theological synthesis or an example of the synthesis of theology. We believe that the best examples of such homilies were born during the period of the liturgical reform of liturgical theology. The osmosis between theology and a liturgical homily lies in the fact that both function in the liturgy and emerged from liturgical theology. From this perspective, the homily, as well as liturgical theology, has four main objectives: to remain in the service of the saving mystery so as to include participants in the liturgical celebration; it is a theological synthesis that leads to knowledge of the mystery of Christ; it is the synthesis of all theological disciplines; and it is the theology of orthodoxy for orthopraxy from the perspective of doxology – a living theology of the saving mystery.

  • Issue Year: 21/2017
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 27-43
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish