The Bones Reassemble: Reconstituting Liturgical Speech

An unorthodox, incisive and groundbreaking interdisciplinary critique of modern liturgical language. Madsen contends that modern liturgists, in spite of their effort to respond to contemporary concerns, have not produced a language in which those concerns are well served. Drawing on religious and literary studies, psychology, and cognitive science, she suggests how to create a new liturgical language with the weight and moral urgency of the old.