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NAAL 2020

8:30am PST

Seminar - Advent Project

The goal of the seminar is to work ecumenically for the expansion of the season from four to seven weeks. This seminar seeks to collect, collate or produce, and provide appropriate Advent worship and homiletic resources for clergy, church musicians, and congregations; also to author as well as solicit scholarship that will support and interpret this proposal for liturgical renewal.

NOTE: On Friday morning beginning at 8:30, we meet with Ecology and Liturgy in Georgia 2.
We will meet with Liturgical Music in Capitol North on Friday at 2:15 p.m.
Our "regular room" on Saturday is Conference Room 121.

Speakers

The Rev. Dr. Elise A. Feyerham

2020 seminar agenda (Advent project) (v 1) docx

Friday January 3, 2020 8:30am - 10:15am PST
Conference Room 121

8:30am PST

Seminar - Christian Initiation

Our seminar asks questions that stand at the intersection of a classic ordo for Christian Initiation and the ongoing formation of the church. What is the vision for the church inherent within these rites? How is that intention both supported and resisted by the church? What historical sources inform us?

Speakers

Diana Duduit Raiche

2020 seminar agenda (Christian initiation) (v 4) docx

Friday January 3, 2020 8:30am - 10:15am PST
Georgia 4

8:30am PST

Seminar - Critical Theories and Liturgical Studies

In our 2020 meeting, the Critical Theories and Liturgical Studies Seminar will focus on the themes raised in Anthony Pinn’s The End of God-Talk (Oxford University Press, 2012). In addition to papers and discussions inspired by Pinn’s text, we will also discuss the current challenges for liturgical studies. The seminar will conclude with sessions devoted to the presentations of work-in-progress by seminar members and visitors.

Note: We meet with Liturgical Hermeneutics in Georgia 8 on Saturday morning, 8:30-10:15.

Speakers

Gerald Liu

Friday January 3, 2020 8:30am - 10:15am PST
Conference Room 125

8:30am PST

Seminar - Ecology and Liturgy

This seminar aims to explore the multiple ways in which ecological consciousness/practices and liturgical consciousness/practices intersect and contextualize each other, and to develop articles/resources on this topic for the use by scholars and practitioners of worship.

Speakers

Lisa Dahill

2020 seminar agenda (ecology and liturgy) (v 2) docx

Friday January 3, 2020 8:30am - 10:15am PST
Georgia 2

8:30am PST

Seminar - Environment and Art

The Environment and Art Seminar Group takes its work into the field visiting a variety of worship spaces in the locale of each national meeting. During these visits the members discuss the various spaces as to their suitability for active participation in worship. In addition, members also make slide presentations and occasionally present papers for discussion.

Proposed topics this year include a prospectus of current research on "The Religious Architecture of the Second American Revolution/Founding" from Tim Parker, and “Liturgical Media Art in Liturgies for Hard Times: Insights from Experimenting with Photography as Environmental Liturgical Art“ from Eileen Crowley.

Speakers

Martin V. Rambusch

2020 seminar agenda (environment and art) (v 1) doc

Friday January 3, 2020 8:30am - 10:15am PST
Georgia 14

8:30am PST

Seminar - Eucharistic Prayer and Theology

This seminar is a scholarly application of the lex orandi, lex credendi axiom. It devotes its sessions to the study of both the classical Eucharistic Prayers and to the new Eucharistic Prayers of modern or relatively modern national, ethnic or church groups. The studies, based on papers written by members of the group, or on Eucharistic Prayers written or selected by them, have alternatively a literary and a theological focus, depending on the nature of the work being discussed.

Speakers

Carl Rabbe

Friday January 3, 2020 8:30am - 10:15am PST
Georgia 1

8:30am PST

Seminar - Exploring Contemporary and Alternative Worship

The members of and visitors to this seminar track developments in “contemporary” worship (seeker services, praise-and-worship services, convergence worship, and “traditional” services that “blend” in elements from these other kinds of services). We research particular faith communities’ worship, as well as the history of and general trends in worship and music styles, liturgical art, architecture, and seminary education for those preparing to become worship leaders in these worship settings, Protestant and Catholic. Members and visitors also addressed “alternative worship” as it has developed in locally specific ways in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, US and Korea and other locations, particularly in response to marginalization and changes in technology.

Speakers

Nelson Cowan

2020 Seminar Agenda (Exploring Contemporary and Alternative Worship) (v 4) pdf

Friday January 3, 2020 8:30am - 10:15am PST
Georgia 5

8:30am PST

Seminar - Feminist Studies in Liturgy

The Feminist Studies in Liturgy Seminar examines existing and new liturgies from a feminist perspective and invites participants to explore new metaphors and new styles of liturgical expression and leadership. Our commitment to inclusiveness leads us to consider not only texts but also gesture, environment, music and all aspects of embodied worship. Our studies include the connections among formal worship, the academy and the larger society.

Speakers

Dr. Marcia McFee

2020 seminar agenda (Feminist Studies in Liturgy) (v4) docx

Friday January 3, 2020 8:30am - 10:15am PST
Georgia 13

8:30am PST

Seminar - Formation for Liturgical Prayer

Note: The seminar joins the Christian Initiation seminar on Friday only.
On Saturday our meeting place is Conference Room 129.

Speakers

Patricia Hughes

2020 seminar agena (Formation for Liturgical Prayer) (v 2) pdf

Friday January 3, 2020 8:30am - 10:15am PST
Georgia 2

8:30am PST

Seminar - Issues in Medieval Liturgy

The Issues in Medieval Liturgy Seminar devotes itself to the scholarly study of liturgical and devotional life in the Middle Ages. The time period stretches from the late patristic through the renaissance/reformation. The group is interested in any prayer activity of the period which includes both liturgical and devotional. Two sorts of presentations are encouraged: finished papers awaiting publication and works in progress which will benefit from the work in seminar.

Note: We meet with Liturgical Music on Saturday from 11-12:30 in Capitol North.

Speakers

Walter Knowles

2020 seminar agenda (Issues In Medieval Liturgy) (v 4) docx

Friday January 3, 2020 8:30am - 10:15am PST
Georgia 3

8:30am PST

Seminar - Liturgical Hermeneutics

The intent of this group is to engage in critical exploration of how we know what liturgical celebrations mean, with a view to learning how liturgy might better work to build a spiritually renewed community. Toward that end, the group will review current understandings of how liturgy means, with attention to pertinent pastoral projects.

Note: Critical Theories joins this seminar Saturday 8:30-10:15 am.

Speakers

Sonja Pilz

2020 seminar agenda (liturgical hermeneutics) (v 2) docx

Friday January 3, 2020 8:30am - 10:15am PST
Georgia 8

8:30am PST

Seminar - Liturgical Language

The Liturgical Language Seminar attends to issues of the language of worship by examining liturgical texts, considering scholarly essays, and discussing ideas and issues related to liturgical language. We welcome guest presenters and occasional participants, as well as Academy visitors and regular members. We occasionally meet jointly with another seminar, and sometimes we sing. We also strive to maintain a seminar group of a manageable size to encourage full and active participation by all.

Speakers

Rhodora Beaton

Liturgical Language Seminar Agenda 2020 (v.4) docx

Friday January 3, 2020 8:30am - 10:15am PST
Georgia 11

8:30am PST

Seminar - Liturgical Music

The Liturgical Music Seminar devotes its sessions to discussion of liturgy and ritual music 1) through papers by members of the group, 2) around issues, projects and studies about music in rites, and 3) by examining new and emerging resources, e.g., hymn collections and musical settings for liturgy.

Two other groups will join us throughout our time together. The Advent Project will be with us Friday at 2:15 p.m. Issues in Medieval Liturgy will meet will us Saturday 11 am - 12:30 p.m.

Speakers

Heather Josselyn-Cranson

2020 Seminar Agenda (Liturgical Music) (v 3) docx

Friday January 3, 2020 8:30am - 10:15am PST
Capitol North

8:30am PST

Seminar - Liturgical Theology

This seminar explores a wide range of topics and issues in the field of liturgical theology, with attention to theology of liturgy (theological reflection on particular worship practices), theology informed by liturgy (liturgy as a source for theological reflection), and doxological theology (theology oriented toward worship). Our sessions include discussion of papers and discussion of a book read in common.

Speakers

Melanie Ross

2020 NAAL Agenda Liturgical Theology docx

Friday January 3, 2020 8:30am - 10:15am PST
Georgia 7

8:30am PST

Seminar - Liturgy and Comparative Theology (Room Change to ATL 3)

Speakers

The Rev. James W. Farwell

2020 seminar agenda (liturgy and comparative theology) (v 2) docx

Friday January 3, 2020 8:30am - 10:15am PST
Atlanta 3

8:30am PST

Seminar - Liturgy and Culture

The Liturgy and Culture Seminar probes both the cultural context of North American worship practices and the relationship of worship and culture in a variety of cultures outside of North America, drawing on works in liturgical theology, history, cultural theory, music and the arts, and several related disciplines.

Note: We will be joined by Modern History of Worship on Friday afternoon, and by Word and Worship from 8:30-10:15 on Saturday.

Speakers

Nathaniel Marx

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Nathaniel Marx is Assistant Professor of Sacramental and Liturgical Theology at Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology. He holds a PhD in liturgical studies from the University of Notre Dame and an MA in social sciences from the University of Chicago. His book, Authentic Liturgy... Read More →

2020 seminar agenda (Liturgy & Culture) (v4) docx

Friday January 3, 2020 8:30am - 10:15am PST
Georgia 10

8:30am PST

Seminar - Modern History of Worship

The work of the Modern History of Worship Seminar focuses on analyzing the history, theology, and practice of worship from the 16th century to the present with an emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches and methods and practical application for the church today. The work of the Modern History of Worship Seminar is interdisciplinary in nature as we analyze liturgies and liturgical issues from the 16th century to the present with an emphasis on practical application for the church and the world today.

Note: We will meet with Liturgy and Culture in Georgia 10 for both of the Friday afternoon sessions.

Speakers

Katharine E. Harmon

Kent Burreson

2020 Seminar AGENDA (Modern Worship) (1) docx

Friday January 3, 2020 8:30am - 10:15am PST
Georgia 12

8:30am PST

Seminar - Problems in the Early History of Liturgy

Our mission is to study issues in Christian and Jewish liturgical history through the early centuries of the Common Era.

Speakers

James Sabak

Mendez Epiphany Lazarium pdf

2020 seminar agenda (Problems in Early History of Liturgy) (v 4) docx

Friday January 3, 2020 8:30am - 10:15am PST
Georgia 9

8:30am PST

Seminar - Queering Liturgy

Participants in the Queering Liturgy seminar share work at the intersection of LGBTQ religious studies, queer theory and liturgical studies. We seek to discern and develop the ways in which queer sensibilities shape and transform the theological performance of faith communities within the context of worship. Our work includes: criticism and/or deconstruction of normative traditions, especially in regards to gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, ability, class and their intersections; analysis of received liturgical theologies, practices and traditions with a "queer eye;" construction of liturgical theologies and practices based on the generative insights of queer theory; and the revision and creation of ritual practices in light of the particularities of LGBTQ lives.

The seminar will not meet on Saturday. We will meet on the pre-meeting day from 4-6:30 at Fandlangles in the Sheraton as well as on Friday at the scheduled times in our conference room (127). Friday evening dinner and discussion at Watershed, 1820 Peachtree NW. See attached schedule and contact Scott Haldeman for final details: shaldeman@ctschicago.edu.

Speakers

Scott Haldeman

rsvps NAAL draft 2020 Queering Liturgy seminar agenda docx

Friday January 3, 2020 8:30am - 10:15am PST
Conference Room 127

8:30am PST

Seminar - Seminar on the Way

This seminar focuses on the specific issues about Eucharist, church, and ministry identified in the ELCA/USCCB document "Declaration on the Way," issues that concern the potential achievement of Lutheran/Roman Catholic full communion. The seminar is open to all members of the Academy, and its work will proceed from the conviction that these issues, especially as they affect liturgical practice,rightly concern all Christians.

For 2020, we anticipate the following presentations at this time, not necessarily in this order:

1. A joint statement in progress from Jim Puglisi and Gordon Lathrop with remarks from John Baldovin and Tom Schattauer.

2. A recent piece from Gordon on liturgical ecclesiology. (Note also his book, Holy People)

3. Martin Seltz on how the Joint Declaration on Justification can impact our work in the seminar.

4. Tim Brunk – preliminary questions on eucharistic sharing

5. Ben Durheim on eucharistic sharing

6. Neil Alexander and/or Ruth Meyers with some reflections from an Anglican/Episcopal point of view.

Speakers

John Baldovin and Melinda Quivik

Agenda 2020 On the Way docx

Friday January 3, 2020 8:30am - 10:15am PST
Georgia 6

8:30am PST

Seminar - The Word in Worship

The work of The Word in Worship is located at the intersection of preaching and worship. The mission or purpose of the seminar is to investigate and interpret for the church and the academy the conjunction or overlap of the proclaimed word and the content of the liturgy in which proclamation occurs. This is based on an understanding of or belief in the liturgical nature of the proclaimed word in worship.

Speakers

Timothy Leitzke

2020 seminar agenda (Word in Worship) (v 1) docx

Friday January 3, 2020 8:30am - 10:15am PST
Conference Room 123

2:15pm PST

Seminars (continued)

The seminars continue. See Friday, 10:30 am session for details on each seminar.

Friday January 3, 2020 2:15pm - 3:45pm PST
See Friday 8:30 a.m. Seminar notes for locations.

4:30pm PST

Seminars (continued)

The seminars continue. See Friday, 10:30 am session for details on each seminar.

Friday January 3, 2020 4:30pm - 6:00pm PST
See Friday 8:30 a.m. Seminar notes for locations.

8:30am PST

Seminars (continued)

The seminars continue. See Friday, 10:30 am session for details on each seminar.

Saturday January 4, 2020 8:30am - 10:15am PST
See Friday 8:30 a.m. Seminar notes for locations.

11:00am PST

Seminars (continued)

The seminars continue. See Friday, 10:30 am session for details on each seminar.

Saturday January 4, 2020 11:00am - 12:30pm PST
See Friday 8:30 a.m. Seminar notes for locations.

2:00pm PST

Seminars (continued)

Saturday January 4, 2020 2:00pm - 3:45pm PST
See Friday 8:30 a.m. Seminar notes for locations.