{"id":17047,"date":"2021-07-14T18:54:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T22:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=17047"},"modified":"2021-07-14T18:54:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T22:54:29","slug":"liturgical-dogmatics-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2021\/07\/liturgical-dogmatics-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Liturgical Dogmatics – Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Despite already having a backlog of books, I will go ahead and buy another because of a discount or the title strikes my fancy. Plus, I am pretentious enough to have been lured by the title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I knew nothing about this book or the author, but Carl E. Olson\u2019s blurb was enough to entice me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was much about the playfulness of the writing style I enjoyed while addressing serious topics. I was also not surprised to find later that the author has written two books on Chesterton. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This book consists of short 5\u20136 page chapters. I read this one slowly because there was just so much that struck me that I had to incorporate into my life. How much I see differently about the liturgy and how our daily life is a constant offering of the liturgy to God. In the back of my mind, I realized the Liturgy of the Hours was, of course, a liturgical exercise while forgetting the other liturgical offerings we can make outside of the Mass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My short Goodreads review<\/a> mentions my only caveat and other impressions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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