Table of Contents

Introduction
PART ONE: LITURGY, ENACTMENTS, AND SCRIPTS
1: What is Liturgy?
2: On Following a Liturgical Script
3: With One Accord: The Communal Dimension of Liturgical Enactments
4: On Bended Knee: the Bodily Dimension of Liturgical Enactments
5: What Are Those without Faith Doing in Liturgical Enactments?
PART TWO: LITURGY AND SCRIPTURE
6: On the Liturgical Reading and Singing of Scripture
7: Liturgical Repetition and Reenactment
8: Liturgical Commemoration
9: The Liturgical Present Tense
PART THREE: GOD IN THE LITURGY
10: God's Liturgical Activity
11: Does God Know What We Say to God?
PART FOUR: LITURGY, LOVE, AND JUSTICE
12: Liturgical Love
13: Justice and Injustice in Christian Liturgies

About the Author

Nicholas Wolterstorff is Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, Yale University. He is the author thirty books, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and former president of the American Philosophical Association.

Reviews

Philosophers of religion have classically engaged with topics such as God's existence and attributes, the problem of evil, and the question of miracles. Ritual, in contrast, has often been viewed as the preserve of religious studies scholars. In this dense but thoughtful collection based on work produced over several decades, Nicholas Wolterstorff corrects both of these assumptions by bringing strictly philosophical tools to bear on Christian liturgy. The Yale philosophical theologian attends to actions and texts, and in so doing endorses the turns to religious experience and to language that characterize contemporary philosophy of religion.
*David Grumett, Ecclesiology*

This book is provocative, instructive, and should achieve the author's intention of catalyzing a new research program ... Acting Liturgically will be an essential guide
*James M. Arcadi, Reading Religion*