Welcoming Finitude

toward a phenomenology of Orthodox liturgy

Christina Gschwandtner

Fordham University Press

2019

Abstract

Welcoming Finitude provides a phenomenological examination of the experience of liturgy, based on the example of Orthodox Christian liturgy, as it manifests in terms of time, space, corporeality, senses, affect, and the interaction with other people. It thus uncovers some of the basic structures of religious ritual experience.