Abstract
The notion that speculative metaphysics must be performed as well as theorized is applied to a discussion of liturgical enactment, especially with regards to its links with integrated, ‘synaesthetic’ bodily sensation and spiritual formation. Truth is presented as an all-encompassing witness and realization, in accordance with a specifically Christian patristic and medieval realization of the inherently sensing character of thought itself. This chapter explores the heuristic nature of the sacraments; the sensorial nature of liturgical enactment as itself part of the work of saving mystery; the redemptive intensification of the senses; and the liturgical transformation of the human body into transparent image. Features of liturgy of particular interest in this chapter are the realising of an aspiration to the redeemed unification of the several senses, through common sensing synaesthesia, spiritual sensing, and the gestural, chanted fusion of sensory attentiveness with ecstatic verbal utterance.
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