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profound liturgical revival in our time, unless they were aware of
the essentially oral character of the electric “field.” Today there
is a “High Church” movement within Presbyterianism as well as
in many other sects. The merely individual and visual aspects of
worship no longer satisfy. But here our concern is to
understand how before typography there was already a
powerful drive towards the visual organization of the non-
visual. There grew up in the Catholic world a segmenting and
also sentimental approach in which, writes Bouyer (p. 16), “it
was taken for granted that the Mass was meant to reproduce
the Passion by a kind of mimetic reproduction, each action of
the mass representing some action of the Passion itself:—for
example, the priest’s moving from the Epistle side of the altar
to the Gospel side being a representation of Jesus’ journey
from Pilate to Herod. . .”