Sanctifying Texts, Transforming Rituals ─ Encounters in Liturgical Studies

Sanctifying Texts, Transforming Rituals: Encounters in Liturgical Studies offers a collection of essays in which the close connection between narrative texts and liturgical practice is elaborated, a variety of ritual aspects of the liturgy and the dialogues between different liturgical languages and media has been studied.

Paul van Geest, S.T.L., Drs. Litt., PhD, is professor of Church History and the History of Theology at Tilburg University, head of the Centre for Patristic Studies at the University of Tilburg and the VU University Amsterdam (CPO). He has published extensively on Modern Devotion; Late Medieval Nominalism; Augustine’s theology, spirituality and reception; art of living and ethics in Early Christianity and mystagogy.Marcel Poorthuis, PhD, teaches interreligious dialogue at the Tilburg School of Theology. His dissertation dealt with the French-Jewish philosopher Immanuel Levinas. He published about Catholicism, Judaism, Buddhism and about Dutch perceptions of Islam (Van harem tot fitna, Nijmegen 2011).Els Rose, PhD, is senior lecturer Medieval Latin at Utrecht University. She received three grants in the national Innovation scheme (NWO), the first two dedicated to the relation between Christian apocryphal literature and liturgical texts in the early medieval West, the third (2017) to the development of a Christian ‘citizenship discourse’ as an expression of membership and belonging in the early Middle Ages.