Open AccessThe Ethical Dimension of Liturgy according to Paul Ricœur: A Liturgical Reading of “Amour et justice”
Author(s) -
Francisco Quesada Rodríguez
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
fronteiras
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2595-3788
pISSN - 2595-377X
DOI - 10.25247/2595-3788.2020.v3n1.p222-234
Subject(s) - liturgy , worship , economic justice , narrative , faith , theology , subject (documents) , meaning (existential) , philosophy , action (physics) , sociology , praxis , procession , epistemology , law , linguistics , computer science , political science , physics , quantum mechanics , library science
In a community of faith called Church, liturgy supposes sacred times and spaces where people of God celebrate the mystery of Christ. But more than a celebration, liturgy is an ethical configuration of the person, who listens the words narratively and perceives the symbols esthetically, with the mystery of Christ’s life that reveals God and man at the same time. In order to understand liturgy, according to this central subject that is accepted academically in systematic theology and liturgical studies, we propose to consider the ethical dimension of faith as an anthropological mediation of the mystery celebrated in the worship. At the same time, to develop our research, we analyze in liturgical terms the book titled Amour et justice written by Paul Ricœur, considering the place of the Holy Scripture, especially the meaning of narratives of prophetical vocations in the configuration of the person, taking up his previous book Soi-meme comme un autre as a hermeneutical reference to understand the testimony and affirmation of the person, who goes from narratives to action in the praxis, that is to say to “the ontology of action”.