![]() ![]() This paper will consider the principle of sacramentality in conversation with recent discoveries regarding language evolution, mirror neurons, and the ways that human brains interact with one another (social neuroscience). The role of the human brain (part of the body) as receptor and processor of language, song, and sensory experience has not received much recent attention in liturgical conversations, but it is equally critical to a non-dualistic theological and anthropological understanding of humanity’s role in worship. Ongoing theological conversations about ecology and cosmology, particularly in the context of worship life, are increasingly focused on the human being as embodied and within the context of creation. ![]() Song and Sacrament, Mind and Matter: Mirroring the Other in the Worship Context Abstract She is the author of Embodied Words, Spoken Signs, Sacramentality and the Word in Rahner and Chauvet (Fortress Press, 2014) and Illuminating Unity: Four Perspectives on Dei Verbum’s ‘One Table of the Word of God and the Body of Christ’ (Liturgical Press, 2014), as well as other essays and articles. Before joining the faculty at Aquinas Institute in 2017, she taught for eight years at St. Rhodora Beaton is Associate Professor of Liturgical and Sacramental Theology at the Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Click on a speaker’s name for more information ![]()
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