Introduction
摘要
This chapter details the background and context from which this book emerged. It introduces the broad scholarly questions informing the approach the contributing authors have taken to considering Sacrosanctum Concilium’s possible futures, and it names the contemporary cultural trends and flows addressed in the book. It summarizes and groups the chapter topics, which include explorations of liturgical theology and interculturality; the negative effects of clericalism and hierarchism; ecological theology’s impact on sacramental theology; liturgical translation and inculturation; affect and perception theories; liturgical music and architecture; liturgical formation and possible liturgical futures. It calls for theologically informed religious imagining and liturgical visioning to chart a realistic path forward for liturgical praxis amid the challenges of contemporary life.