Liturgy Wars: Ritual Theory and Protestant Reform in Nineteenth-Century Zurich

by Vial,Theodore M.

• ISBN13: 9780415966986
• ISBN10: 0415966981
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The nineteenth century was a period of intense religious conflict across Europe, as people confronted the major changes brought by modernity. In Zurich, one phase of this religious conflict was played out in a struggle over revisions to the ritual of baptism. In its analysis of the Zurich conflict, Liturgy Wars offers a strategy for understanding the links between theology, ritual, and socio-politics. Theodore M. Vial offers a new perspective on contemporary ritual studies - and critiques the cognivist approaches of Lawson and McCauley, as well as Catherine Bell's analysis of power and the body - by reintergrating the imporatance of speech acts into considerations of ritual.

Table of Contents

SERIES EDITORS' FOREWORD	xi
PREFACE	xiii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	xv
INTRODUCTION	1	(12)
CHAPTER ONE RELIGIOUS CONFLICT IN ZURICH	13	(12)
Round One: David Friedrich Strauss and the Overthrow of the Zurich Government	14	(2)
Rounds Two and Three: Biedermann and the Fight over Baptism	16	(9)
CHAPTER TWO CONTESTING HUMANITY AND CONTESTING HISTORY	25	(14)
Liberal Politics during the Regeneration	27	(4)
Economics in Zurich during the Regeneration	31	(3)
School Reform in the Regeneration	34	(5)
CHAPTER THREE THE PERSONALITY OF GOD AND OTHER CONTRADICTIONS	39	(14)
Point Counterpoint: Was Biedermann a Christian?	40	(1)
Epistemology	41	(4)
The Doctrine of God	45	(5)
The Knowledge of God and of Ourselves	50	(3)
CHAPTER FOUR WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?	53	(22)
Processing Christology	54	(2)
Biedermann versus the Liberals	56	(1)
Biedermann's Filial Christology	57	(3)
Biedermann versus Strauss	60	(6)
The Main Event: Biedermann versus the Orthodox	66	(1)
The Christology of Ebrard	66	(3)
The Christology of Marheineke	69	(6)
CHAPTER FIVE META FIGHTS: BATTLES IN THEORY OVER BATTLES IN PRACTICE	75	(16)
The Two 1868 Ceremonies of Baptism	76	(1)
A Ritual Theory Map	77	(8)
Speech Act Theory	85	(6)
CHAPTER SIX LITURGY WARS, CULTURE WARS	91	(18)
Lawson and McCauley on Competence	95	(1)
Lawson and McCauley's Generative Rules	96	(4)
Lawson and McCauley's Predictions	100	(1)
Explaining the Ritual Change in the 1868 Liturgy	101	(2)
Speech Acts in the Context of Preaching	103	(6)
CONCLUSION	109	(8)
APPENDIX ONE CEREMONIES OF BAPTISM FROM THE 1868 ZURICH LITURGY	117	(6)
CEREMONY I	117	(2)
CEREMONY II	119	(4)
APPENDIX TWO DERIVATION OF THE BAPTISM CEREMONY	123	(4)
NOTES	127	(44)
BIBLIOGRAPHY	171	(14)
INDEX	185