Metoda badań historycznych w liturgice

Abstract

An integral approach to liturgies requires also taking into consideration its historical aspect. A historian of liturgies uses the subsidiary disciplines of history, but he also lakes into consideration strictly liturgical sources and the entire context of the events he describes to show the evolution of the relations between man and God. Hence a historian of liturgies studies liturgical books, the Churches legislation, forms of popular religiousness, parish registers, canonic inspections registers, theological handbooks, chronicles of the Church institutions. In his research he aims at finding the historical truth and reconstructing the liturgical tradition.