Liturgiczna perspektywa teologii

Abstract

An important help in finding the right place for the liturgy in theology and the manner of doing theology is the new document of the Congregation for the Clergy The Gift of Priestly Vocation. Ratio Fundamentalis Institutionis Sacerdotalis issued on 16 December 2016. This document provides a new order of subjects taught in the seminaries. Sacred Scripture is put first being the soul of theology ( Dei Verbum 24). It is followed immediately by the study of the sacred liturgy, which “must be considered a fundamental discipline”. This is because Scripture and the liturgy constitute a living theology, they are the first and primary locus for entire theology. The fact that liturgy immediately followed Sacred Scripture is also influenced by a new, in-depth understanding of the liturgy found in the Catechism of the Catholic Church and in contemporary theologians (J. Corbon, A.M. Triacca, A. Schmemann, J. Ratzinger and a deeper connection of the liturgy with Divine Revelation and its transmission. The author of the article recognizes the particular significance of liturgical theology, focused on the joint presentation of the three components of the liturgy, that is, the salvific mystery of God, the liturgical celebration and Christian life. Liturgical theology can be done from the perspective of each of the elements of the liturgy ( Mysterium-Actio-Vita ). Liturgical theology is the most perfect fulfilment of the liturgical perspective of theology.