Background
Joseph Andreas Jungmann was born on November 16, 1889, in Sand in Taufers, Austria-Hungary (now Campo Tures, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy). He is the son of Joseph J. and Maria Aschenbacher Jungmann.
Joseph Andreas Jungmann
Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien, Austria
The University of Vienna where Joseph Andreas Jungmann studied.
plac Uniwersytecki 1, 50-137 Wrocław, Poland
The University of Wrocław where Joseph Andreas Jungmann studied.
Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
The University of Innsbruck where Joseph Andreas Jungmann received a Doctor of Theology degree in 1923.
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 Munich, Germany
The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich where Joseph Andreas Jungmann from 1923 till 1924.
Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
The University of Innsbruck where Joseph Andreas Jungmann received a Doctor of Theology degree in 1923.
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 Munich, Germany
The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich where Joseph Andreas Jungmann from 1923 till 1924.
Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien, Austria
The University of Vienna where Joseph Andreas Jungmann studied.
plac Uniwersytecki 1, 50-137 Wrocław, Poland
The University of Wrocław where Joseph Andreas Jungmann studied.
(Place of Christ in Liturgical Prayer is the 1965 translat...)
Place of Christ in Liturgical Prayer is the 1965 translation of Die Stellung Christi im liturgischen Gebet. Prayer, Jungmann states, is of its nature not bound to clearly determined forms and methods. Although rooted in history, liturgical prayer has also been shaped throughout history by our changing understanding of Christ, the center of our prayer. Jungmann inquires into liturgical prayer to determine to what extent and where this historical change or shaping actually occurred. Concentrating on prayer to Christ and prayer through Christ, he examines the place of Christ in different liturgies as they appear in the course of the Church's history. The result is a historical outline of the place occupied by the idea of Christ in liturgical prayer through the ages.
https://www.amazon.com/Place-Christ-Liturgical-Prayer-Jungmann/dp/0814619169/?tag=2022091-20
1925
(The Good News Yesterday And Today is the 1962 translation...)
The Good News Yesterday And Today is the 1962 translation of Die Frohbotschaft und unsere Glaubensverkundigung. Our religion is an organic unit, in which we must discern a fundamental core that we have to proclaim emphatically. This core is the message of Christ. Our way back to the Father is in union with Christ, through the working of the Holy Spirit. All the other truths of our religion have to be explained from this standpoint and with this perspective. What we teach is the gospel-the good news that Christ is among us. The full impact of its thought is being felt in every corner of the Christian world, especially in the American Catholic school classroom where the new catechetics draws strength and vitality from strong roots planted there in our catechetical past.
https://www.amazon.com/Good-News-Yesterday-Today/dp/B000IJC6SW/?tag=2022091-20
1932
(Liturgical Worship is 1941 translation of Die Liturgische...)
Liturgical Worship is 1941 translation of Die Liturgische Feier.
https://www.amazon.com/Liturgical-Worship-Joseph-Jungmann/dp/1163447218/?tag=2022091-20
1939
(The Mass of the Roman Rite: Its Origins and Development i...)
The Mass of the Roman Rite: Its Origins and Development is the translation of Missarum Sollemnia: Eine genetische Erklärung der Römischen Messe. One of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century theology, Joseph Jungmann's towering work is a comprehensive study of the origins, evolution, and theology of the Mass from its earliest forms to the dawn of Vatican II. The fruit of over a decade of painstaking research, The Mass of the Roman Rite is a magisterial treatment of every part of the Mass: its form, its history, and its theology. The Mass of the Roman Rite was hugely influential on the reformers of the Second Vatican Council and is essential reading for anyone wishing to deeply understand Roman Catholic worship.
https://www.amazon.com/Mass-Roman-Rite-Origins-Development/dp/0870612743/?tag=2022091-20
1948
(The Early Liturgy To The Time Of Gregory The Great is 195...)
The Early Liturgy To The Time Of Gregory The Great is 1959 translation of Liturgie der christlichen Frühzeit. The book focuses on the Eucharist and its development, including the development of various rites. It also touches on the development of the sacraments of Baptism and Penance.
https://www.amazon.com/Early-Liturgy-Time-Gregory-Great/dp/1258014505/?tag=2022091-20
1949
(Handing on the Faith: A Manual of Catechetics is a 1959 t...)
Handing on the Faith: A Manual of Catechetics is a 1959 translation of Katechetik: Aufgabe und Methode der religiösen Unterweisung.
https://www.amazon.com/Handing-Faith-Josef-Andreas-Jungmann/dp/B000FMIQ0E/?tag=2022091-20
1953
(The Eucharistic Prayer: A Study of the Canon of the Mass ...)
The Eucharistic Prayer: A Study of the Canon of the Mass is 1965 translation of Das eucharistische Hochgebet: Grundgedanken des Canon Missae.
https://www.amazon.com/Eucharistic-Prayer-Study-Canon-Mass/dp/B002USR2EM/?tag=2022091-20
1954
(Public Worship: A Survey is a 1958 translation of Der Got...)
Public Worship: A Survey is a 1958 translation of Der Gottesdienst der Kirche.
https://www.amazon.com/Public-Worship-S-J-J-Jungmann/dp/B000NKCV8Q/?tag=2022091-20
1955
(Pastoral Liturgy is 1962 translation of Liturgisches Erbe...)
Pastoral Liturgy is 1962 translation of Liturgisches Erbe und Pastorale Gegenwart. A classic theological text rediscovered and brought back into print, Pastoral Liturgy is an important contribution to the field of liturgical studies and a prophetic vision of the Church's future. In 1960, soon after Pope John XXIII announced the Second Vatican Council, Jesuit priest and scholar Joseph Jungmann followed up his The Mass of the Roman Rite with another great theological work titled Pastoral Liturgy. In many ways a companion to The Mass of the Roman Rite, Pastoral Liturgy chronicles the history and evolution of the people's participation in the Liturgy and in the prayers and devotions common at the dawn of the council. Pastoral Liturgy is prophetic as well as academic. Its essays about the place of the Church in the modern world are as relevant as ever and Jungmann's work in many ways anticipates what George Weigel and others have called "Evangelical Catholicism" - the attempt to proclaim the good news in word and sacrament while recognizing the challenges presented by the modern secular world.
https://www.amazon.com/Pastoral-Liturgy-Joseph-Jungmann/dp/0870612875/?tag=2022091-20
1960
(Announcing the word of God is 1967 translation of Glauben...)
Announcing the word of God is 1967 translation of Glaubensverkündigung im Lichte der Frohbotschaft.
https://www.amazon.com/Announcing-Word-God-J-Jungmann/dp/0223296007/?tag=2022091-20
1963
(The liturgy of the Word is 1966 translation of Wortgottes...)
The liturgy of the Word is 1966 translation of Wortgottesdienst im Lichte von Theologie und Geschichte.
https://www.amazon.com/liturgy-word-Josef-Jungmann/dp/B0006BSGMM/?tag=2022091-20
1965
(Christian Prayer Through the Centuries is 1978 translatio...)
Christian Prayer Through the Centuries is 1978 translation of Christliches Beten in Wandel und Bestand. The author looks at nine periods of history, tracing the development of Christian prayer.
https://www.amazon.com/Christian-Prayer-Through-Centuries-Jungmann/dp/0809144646/?tag=2022091-20
1969
(The Mass: An historical, theological, and pastoral survey...)
The Mass: An historical, theological, and pastoral survey is 1976 translation of Messe im Gottesvolk: Ein nachkonziliarer Durchblick durch Missarum sollemnia.
https://www.amazon.com/Mass-historical-theological-pastoral-survey/dp/0814608876/?tag=2022091-20
1970
Joseph Andreas Jungmann was born on November 16, 1889, in Sand in Taufers, Austria-Hungary (now Campo Tures, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy). He is the son of Joseph J. and Maria Aschenbacher Jungmann.
Joseph Andreas Jungmann attended Gymnasium Vinzentinum, Brixen, Austria-Hungary (now Bressanone, Italy) from 1901 till 1909 and then Catholic Seminary in Brixen, South Tyrol, Italy, from 1909 till 1913. After theological studies in the diocesan seminary of Brixen, he was ordained on July 27, 1913. He received a Doctor of Theology degree at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, in 1923. From 1923 till 1924 he attended Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, then University of Vienna, Austria, and the University of Breslau (now University of Wrocław), Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland).
Joseph Andreas Jungmann was a distinguished Austrian Jesuit scholar specializing in the liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church. From 1925 he taught pastoral theology, catechetics, and liturgy at the University of Innsbruck, until 1975, with an interruption from 1938 to 1945 when Hitler closed the theology faculty of the university. Jungmann was also editor of Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie (again with an interruption from 1938 till 1945). After having contributed through his writings to creating the general theological and pastoral climate for Vatican Council II, he was chosen to be a member of the conciliar Preparatory Commission on August 25, 1960.
He continued his intensive and dedicated work during the council as a highly esteemed expert of the Commission for Liturgy and after the Council as consultor of the Consilium (the commission entrusted with the implementation of the Constitution on the Liturgy). Although his 1924 doctoral thesis (never published) dealt with the catechesis on grace in the early Church, the field of Jungmann's special studies was liturgy and in particular the history of the Latin liturgy and the problems of authentic liturgical renewal. His very first book Die Stellung Christi im liturgischen Gebet (The Place of Christ in Liturgical Prayer) is a masterpiece of his own method.
Through a thorough study of the official worship of the Church, it delineates, although only implicitly, the much-needed renewal of devotional prayer. Similarly, he paved the way for the timely renewal of the rites of penance in Die lateinischen Buszriten (1932). His Grundsätliches und Geschichtliches über Formgesetze der Liturgie (1938) is a precious study on the nature and form of authentic liturgical celebration outside of sacramental liturgy; it appeared in English as The Liturgy of the Word (1966). In Gewordene Liturgie (1940) the best of Jungmann's numerous articles reached a larger audience. Jungmann used the academic exile imposed by Hitler for preparing his main work, which made him suddenly world-famous, Missarum Sollemnia.
Jungmann gave lectures in the summer of 1949 at the University of Notre Dame, which appeared first in English as Early Liturgy to the Time of Gregory the Great. Liturgisches Erie und pastorale Gegenwart (1960) collects articles and conferences of general interest into one volume. The last two books, Christliches Beten im Wandel und Bestand (1969) and Messe im Gottesvolk: Ein nachkonziliarer Durchblick durch Missarum Sollemnia (1970) are the crowning conclusion of an extremely rich and intensive literary activity: 304 books and articles, not counting some 800 shorter reviews of books. After Jungmann's death in 1976 the translation of Messe im Gottesvolk, The Mass: An Historical, Theological, and Pastoral Survey, was published.
Jungmann’s writings have made their mark on Catholic thought through translations and frequent re-impressions and abridgments in several languages, including English, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, and Italian. His seminal contributions to liturgies have become part of the post-Vatican II Roman Catholic tradition.
(The Mass: An historical, theological, and pastoral survey...)
1970(The Mass of the Roman Rite: Its Origins and Development i...)
1948(The Eucharistic Prayer: A Study of the Canon of the Mass ...)
1954(Handing on the Faith: A Manual of Catechetics is a 1959 t...)
1953(The Good News Yesterday And Today is the 1962 translation...)
1932(The Early Liturgy To The Time Of Gregory The Great is 195...)
1949(Place of Christ in Liturgical Prayer is the 1965 translat...)
1925(The liturgy of the Word is 1966 translation of Wortgottes...)
1965(Christian Prayer Through the Centuries is 1978 translatio...)
1969(Announcing the word of God is 1967 translation of Glauben...)
1963(Pastoral Liturgy is 1962 translation of Liturgisches Erbe...)
1960(Public Worship: A Survey is a 1958 translation of Der Got...)
1955(Liturgical Worship is 1941 translation of Die Liturgische...)
1939As devout as he was scholarly, Jungmann tried throughout his career to answer the question of why Catholic worship in modern times has (as he saw it) lacked the sense of joy, enthusiasm, and ardor it possessed in earlier eras. Jungmann felt that modern Catholics were no longer as keenly aware as their ancestors had been of the obviously inspiring aspects of their theology, especially the personal, grace-giving nature of Christ. Catholicism as taught in religious schools, he felt, had become too abstract to convey this sense of joy and grace. He attempted to repair the situation by looking back into church history to see how earlier Catholics had been made aware of the presence of Christ’s grace in their lives, and why the apparent decline of that form of consciousness had occurred.
As a historian, Jungmann sought to explain the development of the Christian liturgy, but as a liturgist - particularly a Roman Catholic liturgist - he struggled to illuminate the essence of the liturgy, which he hoped to convey to all Christians.
Joseph Andreas Jungmann was a member of the Preparatory Committee for Vatican II and Society of Jesus. He was a peritus (expert) member of the Liturgical Committee.
