JORAS - Nigerian Journal of Religion and Society

In the course of the evolution of liturgy, there seemed to be some confusion between what constitutes liturgy and “The Science of the Liturgy”. The result of this has been immense especially for us in Nigeria where the injunction of SC 16 that the science of the Liturgy should rank as one of the principal disciplines on theological faculties, has hardly been implemented. The result of this is a seeming confusion in what constitutes the real calling of the trained liturgist: is he an MC? Is he a “creator of liturgies”? What is he? This is the crux of the matter in this article.

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