The Heresy of Formlessness

{{Short description|2002 essay collection by Martin Mosebach}}

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| caption = 2018 revised edition

| author = Martin Mosebach

| title_orig = Häresie der Formlosigkeit

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| country = Austria

| language = German

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| publisher = {{ill|Karolinger Verlag|de}}

| pub_date = 2002

| english_pub_date = 2018

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• 158 (1st version)
• 249 (expanded)

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| isbn = 3854181027

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The Heresy of Formlessness: The Roman Liturgy and Its Enemy ({{langx|de|Häresie der Formlosigkeit. Die römische Liturgie und ihr Feind}}) is an essay collection by the German writer Martin Mosebach. Mosebach, a Traditionalist Catholic, writes about the importance of liturgy and argues in favour of a mass revival of the Tridentine Mass in Ecclesiastical Latin, while criticizing the Mass of Paul VI in the vernacular as an expression of religious and cultural decline.{{cite news |last=Gassmann |first=Michael |date=12 March 2007 |url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/rezensionen/sachbuch/rezension-wer-kichert-da-in-meiner-liturgie-1413159.html |title=Wer kichert da in meiner Liturgie? |website=Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung |language=de |access-date=8 November 2023 }}{{cite news |last=Pontzen |first=Alexandra |date=1 June 2004 |url=https://literaturkritik.de/id/7164 |title=Verlust von Form und Sinn |website={{ill|Literaturkritik.de|de}} |language=de |access-date=8 November 2023 }}{{cite news |last=Köhne |first=Werner |date=23 May 2007 |url=https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/liturgie-als-garant-des-heiligen-100.html |title=Liturgie als Garant des Heiligen |publisher=Deutschlandfunk |language=de |access-date=8 November 2023 }}