Annibale Bugnini: Reformer of the Liturgy?

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Our Price:  £14.50(VAT Free) –+ Add to Basket Author: Yves Chiron Product Code:  B3122 ISBN:  9781621384113 Publisher:  Angelico Press Format  Paperback Pages  214 Year of Publication  2018 Availability      In stock, immediate despatch Share Tweet

Yet who was Bugnini, really? What were his formative experiences, personal ideals, intellectual assumptions, practical aims? How did he accomplish so much in so short a time? Why, after such a singular collaboration with Pope Paul VI, did he suddenly fall from grace and suffer exile? Should he be remembered as liturgiae amator et cultor, lover and servant of the liturgy (his epitaph), or as the éminence grise of an unscrupulous reinvention of Catholic worship? Can we cut through the legendary, the polemical, and the partisan, to arrive at a clear portrait of the man and his work? Until now, there has been no biography that makes extensive use of all available documentary sources, including Bugnini's own memoirs, Vatican publications, private correspondence, interviews, articles, and lectures. The present book has filled this lacuna with the scholarly care and dispassionate analysis for which the author's books are praised at all points on the ecclesiastical spectrum.