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Cyprian Vagaggini, Theological Dimensions of the Liturgy, “The General Background of the Liturgy: Revelation as Sacred History” 1. According to Fr. Vagaggini, what is the liturgy? 2. According to Fr. Vagaggini, Christian revelation, especially in the Scriptures, is not presented to us primarily as a kind of “revealed metaphysics,” nor is it primarily a “practical rule of life” (that is, a collection of moral directives and precepts). Although Christian revelation contains all of the above, it is presented to us first of all, says Fr. Vagaggini, as what? 3. According to Fr. Vagaggini: “It is characteristic of the Old Testament to derive the motive for the moral law immediately and concretely” from what? 4. According to Fr. Vagaggini, the “story” of the New Testament is summed up in what? 5. In his conclusion, Fr. Vagaggini states: “In short, the conclusion is always the same: the whole Judeo-Christian revelation rests on a history and is presented first of all as a history, a history always in the making, which has a long past and will be completed only the future, the history of God’s fee and loving interventions in the world and of the free response of creatures.” What are the essential phases of this history? |