Text Performances and Cultural Transfer/Textperformances und Kulturtransfer

2021

Text Performances and Cultural Transfer/Textperformances und Kulturtransfer

Christian Hild, Juan Rego
Pages 269-283

Ökumenische Performance

This paper aims to explore both the textual performance and the cultural transfer of the Word of God from a Protestant (Christian Hild) and Catholic perspective (Juan Rego). Building on Pope Benedict XVI’s post-synodal apostolical exhortation Verbum Domini (§ 53), the variety of ritual performances of the Word will be analysed in terms of an “ecumenical performance” in order to explore the common theological foundation of both confessions