How has the Liturgy of the Roman rite developed and changed
in history before and after the Council of Trent? What
principles have determined the boundaries of legitimate
liturgical reform over the centuries? What was the
Liturgical Movement? Did GuTranger, Beauduin, Guardini,
Parsch, Casel, Bugnini, Jungmann, Bouyer and the Movement's
other leaders know and respect these principles? And what
is to be said of the not insignificant liturgical reforms
carried out by Saint Pius X, Popes Pius IX and Pius XII and
Blessed John XXIII in the course of the twentieth
century?
In
The Organic Development of the
Liturgy, Dom Alcuin Reid examines these questions
systematically, incisively and in depth, identifying both
the content and context of the principle of "organic
development"ùa fundamental principle of liturgical reform
of the Second Vatican Council's Constitution on the Sacred
Liturgy
Sacrosanctum Conciliumùmaking a significant
contribution to the understanding of the nature of the
Liturgical Movement and to the ongoing re-assessment of the
reforms enacted following the Council.