From Page to Proclamation

“In this book, Clare Schwantes brilliantly moves beyond traditional biblical scholarship to explore how the scripture text is actually received in the context of worship.  Everyone will benefit from seeing where and how God’s word is revealed to us on a particular occasion, in different texts set side by side to work together and heard within the communal liturgy.”


—Tom Elich, former director, Liturgy Brisbane





“Clare Schwantes provokes us to interpret the Scriptures as proclaimed in the worshipping community. She is not putting forward low energy biblicism or high passion enthusiasm. Calling upon Gadamer’s sense of festival, with its dynamism and recall of corporate memory, we are invited to fuse multiple horizons ever respectful of contemporary biblical scholarship. Here is a practical theology of proclamation to challenge liturgists and exegetes alike, while nourishing the faithful with a contemporary diet.”


—Gerard Moore, principal, BBI–The Australian Institute of Theological Education





“This is what we have been waiting for. Finally, a liturgical theologian has emerged with the boldness and creativity to produce a major hermeneutic work on the Lectionary. From Page to Proclamation offers a brilliant adaptation of Gadamerian concepts that is thoroughly theological and eminently practical.”


—Neil Pembroke, associate professor in pastoral theology, Trinity College Queensland





“From Page to Proclamation embodies the need and desire of Pope Francis to have liturgical research based on actual experience. This book is a valuable addition to the academic array of material in liturgy, because it embraces in depth four different methodologies and each of them is comprehensively researched and presented with clarity and conviction. The Word of God comes to us through proclamation and how that is received is what we believe.”


—Angela McCarthy, adjunct senior lecturer theology, University of Notre Dame Australia