Ritual any repeated ordered patterned and shared behavior as imaginative and interpretive acts through which we express and create meaning Anderson and Foley Ritual Helps us get through anxiety of transitions ID: 260047
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Ritual Slide2
Ritual
“any repeated, ordered, patterned and shared behavior”
as “
imaginative and interpretive act[s] through which we express and create meaning”
--Anderson and Foley
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Ritual
Helps us get through anxiety of transitions
from
day to night, night to new
day
from
womb to
world
from
childhood to adult
responsibilities
from
singleness to partnership
from
life to deathSlide4
Ritual
associated with play and sense of relationship to powers beyond us
occurs in special time
occurs in place demarcated as special somehow
What happens in that space & time is charged with meaning. Words are more powerful. Actions and objects are endowed with more meaning. Slide5
ritual
space
for
Christian Worship
Anywhere!
Demarcated by acknowledged presence of Emmanuel in the assemblySlide6
ritual
space
for
Christian Worship
Anywhere!
Demarcated by acknowledged presence of Emmanuel in the assemblySlide7
ritual
space
for
Christian Worship
Anywhere!
Demarcated by acknowledged presence of Emmanuel in the assemblySlide8
ritual
space
for
Christian Worship
Anywhere!
Demarcated by acknowledged presence of Emmanuel in the assemblySlide9
ritual
space
for
Christian Worship
Anywhere!
Demarcated by acknowledged presence of Emmanuel in the assemblySlide10
ritual space
Other than God showing up, what is it that makes ritual space so powerful?
willingness of participants to be engaged and
open
to meaning-making that is happening
shared experience and general
intentionalities
intentionality and attentiveness of ritual leadership
good planning with participants’ needs in mind in accord with tradition’s
intentionalitiesSlide11
ritual time
Eschatological
Sunday
morning
Kairos
not
chronos
Call to worship God at all times, “making the most of time” as divine giftSlide12
ritual words
heightened meaning of ordinary language
special language “It’s God, so you have to use thee and thou,” says one movie character when talking about his prayer to God
highly figurative, poetic rhetoric
metaphor explains unknown by way of comparison to known
is/is not nature of metaphorSlide13
ritual actions
All movement done in ritual space charged with meaning
processions
opening Bible to read
passing peace
raising hands in
blessing
kneeling
etc.Slide14
water
cross
Things placed in ritual space take on significance simply by being placed in the ritual space
Some objects come with their own “worlds” attached to them—i.e. Christmas trees, projection screens, etc. The world of the gospel needs to be preeminent.
This is why we need to be careful about what we bring into worship and how
ritual objects
Candles
bread
ashes
projection screens
rocks