Odo Casel

Odo Casel OSB (born September 27, 1886 in Koblenz as Johannes Casel ; † March 28, 1948 in Herstelle ) was a liturgical scholar and co-founder of mystery theology . He is considered a pioneer and leader of the Catholic liturgical movement , from 1921 he published the yearbook [today: archive] for liturgical science. Many of his thoughts on theology and liturgy were written by Pope Pius XII. published in his encyclical Mediator Dei 1947 as the official teaching of the Catholic Church.

Life

Casel joined the Benedictine Abbey of Maria Laach in 1905 . From 1908 to 1912 he studied Catholic theology at the international Benedictine college Sant'Anselmo in Rome and from 1913 to 1918 in Bonn classical philology , where he also received his doctorate in 1918. From 1922 he was spiritual of the Benedictine Abbey in Herstelle near Höxter and had a decisive influence on the development and development of this abbey. In the last two years before his death in 1948, he also accompanied the nun Corona Bamberg as a spiritual director .

Think

Casel's main merit is the rediscovery of the unity of the secret of faith and the act of worship. Since that is less static sentence truth than rather a passage , namely passage of Christ from death to life, from the alienated world home to the Father, this, the divine service, especially the Eucharist , is the actual acceptance and surrender of the church and the individual believers in the Easter passage of the Lord. The unique, past salvation event (mystery of the cross, paschal mystery ) becomes an effective presence through the Holy Spirit (mystery of the church).

Works

The memory of the Lord in the early Christian liturgy: the basic ideas of the mass canon. 1918

De philosophorum graecorum silentio mystico scrips. 1919 (= dissertation Bonn 1918)

The liturgy as a celebration of the mysteries. 1923

The Christian cult mystery. 1932

Nature and meaning of the oldest Christian Easter celebration . In: Yearbook for Liturgical Studies 1934

The Christian festival mystery. 1941

Faith, Gnosis, Mystery. 1941

Mystery of what is to come. 1952

The true image of man: lectures. 1953

Mystery of the cross. undated (1954)

Mystery of the Ekklesia: Of the fellowship of all redeemed in Christ Jesus. From writings and lectures. 1961

From the mirror as a symbol. From posthumous writings. 1961

Odo Casel published several articles in the journals Liturgische Zeitschrift (1928–1933) and Liturgisches Leben (1934–1939) published by Johannes Pinsk in Berlin .

literature

Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Casel, Odo. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 946-947. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Gerhard Fittkau : The concept of the mystery in Johannes Chrysostomos . An examination of the concept of the "cult mystery" in the teaching of Odo Casel . (Doctoral thesis, Breslau 1944), Peter Hanstein Verlag, Bonn 1953.
Maria Judith Krahe: The Lord is the Spirit. Studies on Odo Casel's theology. EOS, St. Ottilien 1986,
- Vol. 1: The Mystery of Christ. ISBN 3-88096-262-6 .
- Vol. 2: The Mystery of the Pneuma Christi. ISBN 3-88096-263-4 .
Alexander Nawar: Sacrifice as a dialogue of love. Exploring the concept of victim by Odo Casels. Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1999, ISBN 3-631-33958-5 ( European university publications . Series 23: Theologie 660), (At the same time: Innsbruck, Univ., Diss., 1998).

Arno Schilson: Theology as Sacraments Theology. Odo Casel's mystery theology. 2nd Edition. Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag, Mainz 1987, ISBN 3-7867-0928-9 ( Tübingen theological studies 18), (also: Tübingen, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 1981).

Paul's people: Casel Odo. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 164 ( digitized version ).

Renate Maria Winkelmann-Jahn: Abundance of time - fulfilled time. On the justification of mystagogy according to Alfred Petzelt and Odo Casel. EOS, St. Ottilien EOS 1999, ISBN 3-88096-977-9 ( Pietas liturgica - Studia 11).

Web links

Literature by and about Odo Casel in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Corona Bamberg: What else I wanted to say - life review of a Benedictine woman. (PDF; 0.4 MB) In: OrdensNachrichten, Issue 5. 2011, pp. 59–68 , accessed on November 12, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Casel, Odo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Casel, Johannes (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Roman Catholic liturgical scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	September 27, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH	Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH	March 28, 1948
Place of death	Manufacture

[1] Corona Bamberg: What else I wanted to say - life review of a Benedictine woman. (PDF; 0.4 MB) In: OrdensNachrichten, Issue 5. 2011, pp. 59–68 , accessed on November 12, 2017 .