Translating Tradition: A Chant Historian Reads Liturgiam Authenticam (Pueblo Books) - Softcover

Jeffery Obl SB, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814662110 ISBN 13: 9780814662113

Publisher: Liturgical Press, 2005

Synopsis

The Vatican instruction Liturgiam Authenticam (2001) calls for "a new era" of liturgical translation "marked by sound doctrine: and "exact in wording." This, it is stated, will preserve the traditions of the Roman Rite and the exegesis of the church fathers. Though Jeffery favors more exact translations and doctrinal clarity, he find the instruction uninformed about the history of the Catholic liturgy: The Roman Rite, with papal approval, has always made use of paraphrases, multiple translations, and multilayered exegesis. Jeffery proposes reviving the patristic and scholastic principle that Scripture and Catholic tradition are "diverse, not adverse" - that balancing alternative models enhances rather than threatens the unity of the Catholic Church.

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Review:

This book is a necessary resource for scholars, translators, and all those concerned with new texts in the Roman Rite. . . . With excellent documentation and penetrating analysis, Peter Jeffrey has provided a valuable and important wok. Highly recommended.Parish Liturgy Magazine

Don’t miss this book.Pastoral Music

I found this book both valuable and refreshingly stimulating.Music and Liturgy

In this wonderful and challenging commentary from a diversity of perspectives (liturgy, music, linguistic, and cultural) Peter Jeffrey has provided us with a superb and much needed analysis of the controversial document, Liturgiam Authenticam. This should be required reading for all who seek a balanced approach to the questions and implications surrounding and arising from the translation of liturgical texts. Clearly a ‘must read’ for all students of liturgyThe Rev. Maxwell E. Johnson, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana

In this study, Peter Jeffery searches out the core concerns of Liturgian Authenticam, and submits them to close scrutiny. As one steeped in the history of the Western liturgical tradition, he uncovers some shallow thinking in the document, and raises the question of whether the authors have imagined or invented an ideal ‘Latin Rite’. At the same time, he endorses what he identifies as the underlying concern to restore dignity and solemnity to modern Roman Catholic liturgical practice. This book is crucial reading for those concerned with Western liturgical evolution and the possible course of future revision.Bryan D. Spinks, Professor of Liturgical Studies, Yale Divinity School

About the Author:

Peter Jeffery, OblSB, PhD, is the Scheide Professor of Music History at Princeton University. He is the author of A New Commandment: Toward a Renewed Rite for the Washing of Feet published by Liturgical Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: Liturgical Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0814662110
• ISBN 13: 9780814662113
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168