Jeg skrev om «Benedict XVI and the Sacred Liturgy» allerede i februar, boka kom ut på forsommeren, og nå har jeg fått tak i den – svært interessant. Jeg har kommet halvveis i et kapittel skrevet av Manfred Hauke (Un. i Lugano, Sveits), som heter: Klaus Gamber: father of the new liturgical movement. Jeg kommer med stoff fra dette kapittelet om ikke lenge. Her er litt om det:
Father Manfred Hauke, a theologian of the University of Lugano, Switzerland, and one of Europe’s most educated and widely published Catholic scholars, discusses the influence of Monsignor Klaus Gamber on the “new liturgical movement”. Father Hauke contextualizes both the thought of Joseph Ratzinger concerning the liturgy and the importance of Klaus Gamber (1919-1989) in the development of a movement based on sound scholarship that questioned the direction of the post-Conciliar liturgical establishment.
We learn of Ratzinger’s observation that by Gamber’s remaining on the “outside” of the German-speaking liturgical establishment he was able to speak prophetically about the state of the liturgy in the aftermath of the Council, and to question whether one could really talk about a unity of the liturgical rite in the face of an abundance of what Gamber termed “‘individual rites’ since so many priests now design their own liturgy, just as they please”. Gamber’s prodigious writings on the liturgy address a multiplicity of issues. He is perhaps best known for his book The Reform of the Roman Liturgy, Its Problems and Background, which appeared in English in 1993.