Organisk utvikling og lydighet overfor kirkelige myndigheter viktige temaer i oppgave om den liturgiske bevegelsen
Ole Martin Stamnestrø fokuserer i sin avhandling (som jeg har nevnt tidligere, HER, HER og HER) på to temaer i den liturgiske bevegelsen; på den organisk utviklinga av liturgien og lydighet overfor kirkelige myndigheter mht til liturgiske forandringer. Han mener å finne et skille rundt 1930 når det gjelder lydigheten og på 60-tallet når det gjelder organisk utvikling (og begrepet organisk utvikling er også vanskelig å få definert klart) – om jeg har forstått ham rett. I oppgavens konklusjon skriver Stamnestrø bl.a.:
This thesis has traced the history of the Liturgical Movement within the Roman Catholic Church from its French nineteenth-century origins to the eve of the appearance of the 1969/1970 Novus Ordo Missae. Attention has been principally directed to an examination of the interplay of the two principles of organic development and obedience to legitimate ecclesiastical authority. The importance of these two principles for liturgical reform within the system of Roman Catholicism has been demonstrated, but it remains to determine their precise relationship and to explore what conclusions should be drawn from this.
ORGANIC DEVELOPMENT
The most thorough modern study of the Liturgical Movement in English, Alcuin Reid’s The Organic Development of the Liturgy, evaluates the history of the Liturgical Movement up to the year 1962 in the light of the principle of organic development. Whilst, as has been noted, this principle is formulated clearly in Sacrosanctum Concilium, it is nevertheless Reid’s achievement to draw attention to the importance of this principle. Organic development, according to Reid, is “the one fundamental principle of liturgical reform in which all Catholic reform finds its legitimacy.” This thesis takes as its starting point Reid’s scholarship in establishing this as a fundamental principle for liturgical reform. However, this thesis differs from Reid when he concludes that this principle holds supreme authority in the realm of liturgical reform, even to the detriment of the principle of obedience to legitimate ecclesiastical authority. True, Reid is not blind to the importance of authority within the Roman Catholic Church:
The principle of authority in the development of the Liturgy has been seen to be crucial, particularly given the increase of centralism and of ultramontane obedience in the Catholic Church. Yet, it is clear that authority cannot stand alone as a principle of liturgical reform. …

