Hurd offers fresh insights on familiar topics, moving easily from poets, playwrights, theologians, and spiritual writers. His treatment of Louis-Marie Chauvet makes this contemporary theologian comprehensible and accessible to the average reader. Coming from a person who has spent a lifetime composing texts and music for worship, this book is clearly the fruit of study, personal prayer, and liturgical celebrating. Highly recommended!
Judith M. Kubicki, CSSF
Associate Professor of Theology,
Fordham University
Deeply grounded in Scripture and demonstrating deft command of insights provided by Karl Rahner and Louis-Marie Chauvet, Bob Hurds Compassionate Christ, Compassionate People articulates a Christian spirituality that, nourished by liturgical practice, moves with the spirit of God moving within us. Hurds account of liturgy ties the love that moves Dantes stars with the love that God summons us to practice in the human village.
Timothy Brunk
Associate Professor of Theology,
Villanova University
You have enjoyed singing Bob Hurds liturgical music. Here is your opportunity to enter the fruitful mind of this faithful Christian. You will explore not only the workings of worship but also the God whom worship encounters. Hurds book will help you appreciate why his music so powerfully draws you into Christian prayer.
Fr. Paul Turner
Pastor, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception,
Kansas City, Missouri
Cover design by Monica Bokinskie. Cover Image: The Good Shepherd (1975) by Sadao Watanabe. Used with permission.
Scripture excerpts in this work are from the Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of the United States of America, second typical edition 2001, 1998, 1997, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC. Used with permission. All rights reserved. No portion of this text may be reproduced by any means without permission in writing from the copyright owner.
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Excerpt from the English translation of Rite of Baptism for Children 1969, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation (ICEL); excerpts from the English translation of The Roman Missal 2010, ICEL. All rights reserved.
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Excerpts from OUR TOWN and A Preface for Our Town, by Thornton Wilder Copyright 1938; A Preface to Three Plays by Thornton Wilder. Reprinted by arrangement with The Wilder Family LLC and The Barbara Hogenson Agency, Inc. All rights reserved.
2019 by Bob Hurd
Published by Liturgical Press, Collegeville, Minnesota. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever, except brief quotations in reviews, without written permission of Liturgical Press, Saint Johns Abbey, PO Box 7500, Collegeville, MN 56321-7500. Printed in the United States of America.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hurd, Bob, author.
Title: Compassionate Christ, compassionate people : liturgical foundations of Christian spirituality / Robert Hurd.
Description: Collegeville, Minnesota : Liturgical Press, [2019] | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018050946 (print) | LCCN 2019007575 (ebook) | ISBN 9780814684870 (ebook) | ISBN 9780814684627 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: SpiritualityCatholic ChurchHistory. | Sacraments (Liturgy)History.
Classification: LCC BX2350.65 (ebook) | LCC BX2350.65 .H865 2019 (print) | DDC 264/.02dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018050946
Contents
Acknowledgments
With heartfelt thanks I want to acknowledge the following who in various ways have encouraged and assisted me in the writing of this book:
- My graduate students at Santa Clara University, Seattle University, and the Archdiocese of San Bernadino, who taught me that students of spirituality and worship come from all kinds of church traditions.
- Mary Fay and Joe Zenk, first readers of the earliest part of the book, who encouraged me and offered helpful comments on the writing.
- For seven years, my wife Pia Moriarty and I have lived in the intentional, ecumenical community of Pilgrim Place in Claremont, California. If I have succeeded at all in comparing Roman Catholic and Protestant worship traditions in this book, it is largely due to the generous accompaniment and assistance of my Protestant sisters and brothers. I offer special thanks to Ken Dale, Jean Denton, Jane Douglass, Ron Hines, John Keester, David Lull, Bill Moremen, Steve Smith, and Dwight Vogel; I remember with gratitude the accompaniment of Bill Lesher (19322018), my frequent ecumenical conversation partner, who also taught me the importance of interreligious dialogue and cooperation.
- Pastor Lara Martin, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Claremont, California, who provided me with texts from her tradition.
- Marty and Linda Haugen, who graciously lived with the writing of this book during several shared vacations; Marty offered helpful suggestions on the eucharistic prayer chapter.
- Timothy Brunk, who read and commented on the manuscript of the book with meticulous care.
- Michael Downey, who has accompanied me all along the way of this book, reading, commenting, offering insightful suggestions, and whose own writing on spirituality continues to inspire me. I am grateful that he accepted my invitation to write the foreword to this book.
- Pia Moriarty, teacher, anthropologist, community organizer, social justice activist, composer, potter, my spouse, my best friend, my treasure, for her unfailing support, encouragement, and practical help on the writing.
It will become apparent to the reader that the primary intellectual influences on this book are Karl Rahner and Louis-Marie Chauvet. In their different ways, each has provided a theological framework for drawing together my own thought along with that of other favorite authors whose writings have nourished me. I am grateful to them all, but especially these two. As a young professor I had the opportunity to meet and interview Karl Rahner at Marquette Universitys celebration of his seventy-fifth birthday. At that time, I was able to express my personal thanks for how his work has deepened my faith. Similarly, I hope this book may serve as an expression of gratitude to Louis-Marie Chauvet.