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Studentthesis-Andrew Bishop 2014 This electronic thesis or dissertation has been downloaded from the King’s Research Portal at https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/ Eucharist shaping church, mission and personhood in Gabriel Hebert’s liturgy and society Bishop, Andrew Awarding institution: King's College London The copyright of this thesis rests with the author and no quotation from it or information derived from it may be published without proper acknowledgement. END USER LICENCE AGREEMENT Unless another licence is stated on the immediately following page this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ You are free to copy, distribute and transmit the work Under the following conditions: Attribution: You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). 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King’s College, London Department of Education and Professional Studies with the Department of Theology and Religious Studies Research Based Thesis EUCHARIST SHAPING: CHURCH, MISSION AND PERSONHOOD IN GABRIEL HEBERT’S LITURGY AND SOCIETY 2013 Andrew Scott Bishop Doctorate in Theology and Ministry 1 ABSTRACT This thesis considers Gabriel Hebert’s Liturgy and Society: The Function of the Church in the Modern World. It does so in the conviction that Hebert offers a continuing contribution to theological endeavour and practical ecclesiology. The thesis identifies and explores three key themes emerging from Liturgy and Society which all contribute to Hebert’s central proposition that liturgy, principally the Eucharist, shapes Christian identity. The first theme is ecclesiology. This is significant because for Hebert the Church is indispensable in mission and her dogma is embodied in liturgy. The second theme is mission. Hebert’s examination of the function of the Church in the modern world has a missional character. The third theme is personhood. This theme comes from Hebert’s conception of what shapes persons through liturgy. I propose the notion of ‘liturgical anthropology’ as a way of articulating Hebert’s idea of personhood. The thesis sets Hebert in context historically and theologically within the ‘Parish Communion Movement’ and twentieth century Anglican theology. Furthermore it takes Hebert beyond his original setting by analysing his work alongside contemporary writers on the three themes, demonstrating that he can be set in relation to contemporary writers in the fields of ecclesiology, mission and liturgical anthropology. In each area Hebert is a fruitful conversation partner in which his thought is elucidated by and resonates with other writers. Whilst the influence of the Parish Communion Movement is still current in the Church of England, Hebert’s approach is not uncontested in the contemporary Church. Nonetheless the thesis demonstrates that his rejection of individualism, his recognition of the intimate relationship between mission and Church and his vision of the liturgical grounding of the practical and ethical consequences of the function of the Church in the modern world speak powerfully today. 2 CONTENTS ABSTRACT ...................................................................................................................... 2 CONTENTS ...................................................................................................................... 3 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................ 6 The Smell of Incense and the Smell of Toast ........................................................... 6 The Core Thesis: Participation in a Common Life ................................................... 7 Method and Plausibility .......................................................................................... 11 Originality ............................................................................................................... 13 The Historical and Theological Milieu of Gabriel Hebert ...................................... 14 The Research: The Significance and Aims of this Study within Wider Debate. .... 18 CHAPTER ONE: WHAT I LEARNT IN THE HOUSE OF GOD ............................... 21 Liturgy and Society: Hebert’s Aims ....................................................................... 21 Gabriel Hebert: The Man ........................................................................................ 24 Liturgy and Society ................................................................................................. 27 Liturgy and Society in its Theological and Historical Setting ................................ 30 The Theology of Liturgy and Society ..................................................................... 32 Liturgy and Society: Innovative Conservative ........................................................ 35 What I Learnt in the House of God: Personal Disclosure ....................................... 38 Conclusion .............................................................................................................. 50 CHAPTER TWO: LET THESE DRY BONES LIVE - ECCLESIOLOGY .................. 51 The Case for the Church ......................................................................................... 52 Method and Motivation in Ecclesiology ................................................................. 54 Roots of Hebert’s Ecclesiology: Liturgical and Doctrinal ...................................... 56 Social Meaning and the Gift of Dogma: Relating Hebert and Hardy ..................... 61 The Church and Truth ............................................................................................. 63 Conclusion .............................................................................................................. 67 CHAPTER THREE: ECCLESIOLOGY, INCARNATION AND DOGMA ................ 68 Dogma and Freedom ............................................................................................... 68 Society and the Function of the Church in the Modern World ............................... 75 Form and Order: Church Shaping ........................................................................... 79 Church Governance ................................................................................................. 80 Conclusion .............................................................................................................. 84 3 CHAPTER FOUR: LITURGY AND MISSION - A CASE OF JACOB AND ESAU OR MARY AND MARTHA? ........................................................................................ 86 Mission, Hebert and the Liturgical Movement ....................................................... 87 Liturgical Renewal and Mission ............................................................................. 89 Three Approaches to Liturgy and Mission.............................................................. 92 Gabriel Hebert and Andrew Walker: Telling the Same Story?............................... 95 Indwelling the Story – Conventional, Contemporary or Radically Traditional? .... 99 Ecclesiology and Mission ..................................................................................... 102 Mary, Martha and Proper Sowing ......................................................................... 105 Conclusion ............................................................................................................ 107 CHAPTER FIVE: LITURGY AND SOCIETY - EUCHARIST SHAPING .............. 109 Who am I in Liturgy? ...........................................................................................
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