Liturgical Time and Space

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GENERAL INFORMATION
1.1. Course teacher Assoc. prof. Ante Crnčević, PhD 1.6. Year of the study 1st
1.2. Name of the course Liturgical Time and Space 1.7. ECTS credits 3
1.3. Associate teachers Milan Dančuo 1.8. Type of instruction (number of hours L + E + S + e-learning) L=30
1.4. Study programme (undergraduate, graduate, integrated) Graduate 1.9. Expected enrolment in the course 55
mandatory elective 1.10. Level of application of e-learning (level 1, 2, 3), percentage of
1.5. Status of the course
online instruction (max. 20%)
2. COUSE DESCRIPTION
Getting to know the "time symbols" as the necessary ritual elements of liturgical celebrations; to appreciate time in a religious-anthropological
2.1. Course objectives perspective; knowledge of religious and ritual background of the formation of the calendar; knowledge of the liturgical year; its cycles and theology of
time. Familiarisation with the historical development and theological foundations of the space of Christian liturgical celebrations.
2.2. Enrolment requirements and/or entry competences required for the course Completed undergraduate study.
2.3. Learning outcomes at the level of the - critically assess the connections between the theological-religious theory and Church, religious and social practice
programme to which the course contributes - adequately and creatively plan and program pastoral activities at the level of parish community
▪ to know the ritual place and meaning of time in the experience of pre-Christian religions.
▪ to know how to assess the time in the context of Christian revelation and Christian experience.
▪ to know the cosmic and religious structure of the oldest calendars.
2.4. Expected learning outcomes at the
▪ to know the specific meanings and contents of individual liturgical year cycles and sanctoral.
level of the course (3 to 10 learning
▪ to analyse the contents of particular times and celebrations through theological analysis of euchological forms.
outcomes)
▪ to know the relationship between the Christian rite and space space and the theological logic of the liturgical space.
▪ to know the historical development of the form of liturgical space.
▪ to know the theological criteria for evaluating the liturgical space and its elements.
1st Time as a rite element and symbol.
2nd Time in the light of biblical religion and Christian revelation. theology of time.
3rd The emergence and development of old calendars; the Christian calendar and its reconstruction; contemporary issues of the calendar.
4th Liturgical year: concept, relations and pervading liturgical and civic years.
5th Sunday - the original and comprehensive Christian holiday; origin, content, place in the life of the faith and in the structure of the liturgical year;
2.5. Course content theological themes in discussions on Sunday.
(syllabus) 6th The Celebration of the Paschal Mystery: Paschal Triduum,; emergence, development, structure and content.
7th Time of preparation for the celebration of Easter and Pentecost; an analysis of the Euchological, Lent, and Easter forms.
8th The mystery of God's revelation (the celebration of Christ's birth and the Epiphany).
9th The mystery of God's revelation: Advent, emergence, development, contents, theological analysis, Euchological forms.
10th The "time through year" celebrations; Sunday's foundation; structure, relations to sanctoral.
11th The formulation and the theological significance of the sanctoral; the veneration of saints and Blessed Virgin Mary.
DETAILED PROPOSAL OF THE STUDY PROGRAMME

12th Liturgy of the Hour.


13th Liturgical space: space as a symbol; space in early Christian liturgical conception; earliest development.
14th Historical development of the form and theological significance of the liturgical space.
15th Theological images of rituals as the basis of space form and its spatial elements.
lectures 2.7. Comments:
independent assignments
seminars and workshops
multimedia and the internet
exercises
2.6. Format of instruction: laboratory
online in entirety
work with mentor
partial e-learning
(other)
field work
2.8. Student responsibilities
Class attendance YES NO Research YES NO Oral exam YES NO
Experimental work YES NO Report YES NO (other) YES NO
2.9. Monitoring student work Essay YES NO Seminar paper YES NO (other) YES NO
Preliminary exam YES NO Practical work YES NO (other) YES NO
Project YES NO Written exam YES NO ECTS credits (total) 3
Number of
Availability via other
Title copies in the
media
library
2.10. Required literature V. Zagorac, Krist posvetitelj vremena, Zagreb 1996. 5
(available in the library A. J. Chupungco (ed.), Scientia liturgica, vol. V., Casale Monferrato 1998. (there is an English 1 http://hrcak.srce.hr
and/or via other media) and an Italian edition).
I. Šaško, Liturgijski prostor kroz povijest i danas. Razmišljanja o liturgijskoj arhitekturi, pro 5 http://hrcak.srce.hr
manuscripto, Zagreb 2005.
Crnčević, I. Šaško, Na vrelu liturgije, Zagreb 2009., šš. 309.-529. 5 http://hrcak.srce.hr
Razni autori, Liturgijska mistagogija (ur. J. Klarić), Frankfurt am Main 2002., (articles of A. Crnčević and I. Šaško).
2.11. Optional literature
I. Žižić, Nedjelja i liturgija. Sakramentalni identitet Dana Gospodnjega, SB 46(2006) 3, 237-271.
2.12. Other (as the proposer wishes to add) The colloquium is a part of the student's regular obligations and cannot be replaced by another form of work.

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