What Kind of Canon Do the Lectionaries Constitute?
The Roman Catholic Church inaugurated a three-year cycle of three readings from the Bible entitled LECTIONARY FOR MASS in Advent, 1969. Four U.S. Protestant Churches shortly produced their own patterned on it, one of them proposed for use by eight of the member Churches of the Consultation on Church...
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| Language: | English |
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2000
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Biblical theology bulletin
Year: 2000, Volume: 30, Issue: 1, Pages: 27-35 |
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| Summary: | The Roman Catholic Church inaugurated a three-year cycle of three readings from the Bible entitled LECTIONARY FOR MASS in Advent, 1969. Four U.S. Protestant Churches shortly produced their own patterned on it, one of them proposed for use by eight of the member Churches of the Consultation on Church Union (the ninth had its own). At present there are three in use, the Catholic lectionary that is internationally employed, one composed by the U.S. Episcopal Church for its revised BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, and the REVISED COMMON LECTIONARY of the Consultation on Common Texts. The last named has been adopted by the Lutheran, Reformed tradition, and Methodist Churches that had previously developed a lectionary of their own. The proclamation of God's life-giving and redemptive deed in Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit is the architectonic principle governing all the lections proposed. In aid of this, the ancient resort to typology has been employed, which sees a prefiguring of something in every Gospel pericope in some incident or passage in the First Testament. Fearful that the fullness of God's revelation to Israel may have been obscured by this technique, the RCL has proposed lengthier readings from that Testament unrelated to the day's Gospel for one half of each year. This article will attempt to answer the question posed in the title. |
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| ISSN: | 1945-7596 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Biblical theology bulletin
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/014610790003000104 |