THEO40630: Liturgy and Sacramentality

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• To develop an understanding of the concept of sacramentality in historical and contemporary theology.
• To examine the theological and liturgical basis for an understanding of sacred space, the sacramentality of the word and the seven traditional sacraments of the western Church.
• To explore the relationship between doctrine and liturgical and pastoral practice.
• To encourage awareness of key issues in ecumenical theology and the liturgical practice of different Churches.

• The seminars will cover the following fixed themes:
• The concept of sacrament and sacramentality.
• The sacramentality of sacred space: exposition and critique.
• The place of the sacraments in the Church: an historical perspective.
• The Eucharist and Real Presence.
• Baptism and the understanding of salvation.
• Confirmation: a rite searching for a theology?
• Rites of Penance: mediating forgiveness.
• Rites of healing and wholeness.
• Ordination Rites.
• The Sacramentality of Marriage.
• The Sacramentality of the Word

Subject-specific Knowledge:

• Students will have gained an advanced understanding of the inter-relationship between Liturgy and Sacramentality.

Subject-specific Skills:

• Students will
• 1) be able to apply the concept of sacrament across a range of liturgical settings and practices;
• 2) be aware of liturgical convergence and divergence in the practice of different Churches and Christian traditions;
• 3) be able critically to analyse selected liturgical texts;
• 4) be able to identify the relationship between theology and pastoral practice; and
• 5) understand the place of the sacraments within the discipline of Theology and Religion.

Key Skills:

• Have enhanced skills in the acqusition of information through reading and research, and in the structured written presentation of information and arguments.

• Seminars will encourage peer-group discussion, and enable students to develop critical skill in the close reading and analysis of with prescribed source material.
• The source material may include (where possible) printed texts, resource papers, and visual resources.
• The seminars will develop skills of effective communication and presentation and promote awareness of diversity of interpretation and methodology.
• Learning outcomes will be summatively assessed by essay, exhibiting subject-specific knowledge and understanding.

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