TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

FOREWORD

Jason J. McFarland

PART 1—PLENARY SESSIONS

Introduction to the Vice-Presidential Address ...........................3 Gennifer Brooks

Vice-Presidential Address ......................................... 4 To Be Determined Todd E. Johnson

Introduction of the Berakah Recipient ............................... 20 Stefanos Alexopoulos

The Berakah Award ............................................. 22

Berakah Response .............................................. 23 Crucifixus, Canon Missae, et Communio Sanctorum: An Autobiographical Hodayah Maxwell E. Johnson

President’s Report to the Academy ................................. 33 Gennifer Brooks

PART 2—SEMINAR REPORTS

The Advent Project ..............................................39 Christian Initiation ...............................................40 Critical Theories and Liturgical Studies ..............................42 Ecology and Liturgy. .............................................43 Environment and Art .............................................45 Eucharistic Prayer and Theology ....................................46 Exploring Contemporary and Alternative Worship ......................47 Feminist Studies in Liturgy ........................................49 Formation for Liturgical Prayer .....................................50 Issues in Medieval Liturgy. ........................................51 Liturgical Hermeneutics. ..........................................54

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Liturgical Language ..............................................56 Liturgical Music. ................................................57 Liturgical Theology ..............................................58 Liturgy and Comparative Theology ..................................60 Liturgy and Cultures .............................................61 Modern History of Worship ........................................62 Problems in the History of Early Liturgy. .............................64 Queering Liturgy ................................................67

PART 3—SELECT SEMINAR PAPERS

Mirror of the Church: Liturgy as Ecclesial Self-Recognition ............. 71 Layla A. Karst

Transcending Tradition: A Reappraisal of Methods for Studying Charismatic Worship ............ 84 Deborah A. Wong

A Liturgical History of the Organ Prelude in Presbyterian Churches. ..... 100 Jonathan Hehn

Art-Based Training to Increase Capacity of Church Leadership at the Convergence of Worship, Preaching, and Justice ..................... 112 Jennifer Ackerman

Repenting the Evil Done on Our Behalf: The Penitential Aspect of an Expanded Advent Season ................. 125 William H. Petersen

Eucharistic Prayers at St. Gregory Nyssen Episcopal Church, San Francisco ................................. 137 Richard Fabian

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