Eucharistic Sacramentality in an Ecumenical Context

Eucharistic Sacramentality in an Ecumenical Context
Author: David J. Kennedy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2016-04-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1317140117

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This book explores the epiclesis or invocation of the Holy Spirit in the Eucharistic Prayer, using the Anglican tradition as an historical model of a communion of churches in conscious theological and liturgical dialogue with Christian antiquity. Incorporating major studies of England, North America and the Indian sub-Continent, the author includes an exposition of Inter-Church ecumenical dialogue and the historic divisions between western and eastern Eucharistic traditions and twentieth-century ecumenical endeavour. This unique study of the relationship between theology and liturgical text, commends a theology and spirituality which celebrates the presence of the Holy Spirit in the Eucharist as present and eschatological gift. It thus sets historic, contemporary and ecumenical divisions in a new theological context.

Rediscovering the Eucharist

Rediscovering the Eucharist
Author: Roch A. Kereszty
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2002
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780809141449

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Essays from an ecumenical conference that promote a further convergence in our understanding of the Eucharist.

The Sacrament of Charity

The Sacrament of Charity
Author: Pope Benedict XVI
Publisher: USCCB Publishing
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2007-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781601370020

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A child begs her father to take her to the baseball game, where she roots for the home team and eats peanuts and Cracker Jack.

Sacramentality Renewed

Sacramentality Renewed
Author: Lizette Larson-Miller
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2016-04-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0814682987

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Tracing developments in sacramental theology over the past twenty-five years, this study explores a growing ecumenical dynamism in both the academic study of sacramentality and its centrality in pastoral applications. But how does ecumenical excitement in a renewed discovery of sacramental theology fit with different theologies of church and different pastoral beliefs and practices? How does the universality of academic accessibility in the form of an expansive ecumenical sharing of perspectives meet the particularities of pastoral reality and ecclesial polity? Arguing in favor of fruitful ecumenical conversation, this book also focuses on the crucial interaction of ecclesiology, liturgical practice, and sacramentality, which raises the need for a creative tension between the particularities of a given ecclesial system and the catholicity of Christian sacramentality. Using Anglican sacramental theologies and Anglicanism as vehicles of exploration, this study contributes to an overview of the state of the field of sacramental theology in the twenty-first century while challenging the assumption that one size fits all. In sacramental theology, as in other important areas of Christian life, unity in diversity may be the basis for authentic lived sacramentality.

Gestures of God

Gestures of God
Author: Geoffrey Rowell
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2004-06-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780826477828

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This important new collection of essays on a topic of vital importance is by a group of scholars from ten countries, from a wide range of Christian traditions, East and West, and from various academic disciplines. What has happened to sacramentality in an age which is on the one hand visual and on the other culturally cast adrift from the traditional symbolic universe in which sacramental theology was naturally at home? This book is not just confined to a discussion of Eucharistic theology. It examines both the historical roots of sacramentality, the concept of a sacral person, ways in which sacramentality may be re-envisioned and the flourishing roday of churches of a largely non-sacramental style in an age which is increasingly visual rather than verbal. The vital importance of the subject of this book is confirmed by the distinction of the contributors—David Brown (Professor of Theology at Durham University), Timothy Jenkins (Cambridge), Bishop Geoffrey Rowell (Oxford), Jeremy Begbie (St. Andrews and Cambridge), Ann Loades (Durham), David N. Power (Catholic University of America), Sven-Erik Brodd (Uppsala), Peter Bouteneff (St. Vladimir's Seminary, New York) and Susan A. Ross (Loyola University, Chicago).

Sacrament of Unity

Sacrament of Unity
Author: Walter Kasper
Publisher: Herder & Herder
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2004
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

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The understanding of the Eucharist as sacrament of unity is not a peripheral or accidental matter. It is not merely an addition to the truths of church dogma. Indeed, the unity of the Church is the very reason the Eucharist exists. Book jacket.

Sacramental Theology

Sacramental Theology
Author: Herbert Vorgrimler
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 1992
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780814619940

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Both resistance to and renewed interest in the sacraments mark current theological thought. This work acknowledges human limitations of the sacraments but stresses that God's relationship to human beings cannot be other than sacramental." Sacramental structures and events constitute salvation history, and thus permeate all theology. What makes this sacramental view comprehensible is faith; faith is an indispensable precondition for a sacramental theology. Therefore, the author first demonstrates the preconditions of faith on which sacramental theology rests, and what place it holds within the whole of theology. Following this, he briefly presents the concept of sacraments and the history of that concept, the teachings of Church tradition on sacraments in general, and the basic features of a sacramental theology. Next, he explains from a theological perspective the traditional sacraments of the Catholic Church, including related topics such as indulgences and sacramentals.

Receptive Ecumenism As Transformative Ecclesial Learning

Receptive Ecumenism As Transformative Ecclesial Learning
Author: Paul D. Murray
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2022-06-16
Genre:
ISBN: 0192845101

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Receptive Ecumenism asks not what other churches can learn from us, but 'what can we learn and receive with integrity from our ecclesial others?' Since the publication of Receptive Ecumenism and the Call to Catholic Learning: Exploring a Way for Contemporary Ecumenism (OUP, 2008), this fresh ecumenical strategy has been adopted, critiqued, and developed in different Christian traditions, and in local, national, and international settings, including the most recent bilateral dialogue of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC III). The thirty-eight chapters in this new volume, by academics, church leaders, and ecumenical practitioners who have adopted and adapted Receptive Ecumenism in various ecclesial and cultural contexts, show how Receptive Ecumenism has grown and matured. Part One demonstrates how Receptive Ecumenism itself is capable of being received with integrity into very different ecclesiologies and ecclesial traditions. In Part Two, this approach to transformative ecumenical learning is applied to some recurrent ecclesial problems, such as the understanding and practice of ministry, revealing new insights and practical opportunities. Part Three examines the potential and challenges for Receptive Ecumenism in different international settings. Part Four draws on scripture, hermeneutics, and pneumatology to offer critical reflection on how Receptive Ecumenism itself implements transformative ecclesial learning. Addressing the 70th Anniversary of the World Council of Churches, Archbishop Justin Welby, said that 'One of the most important of recent ecumenical developments has been the concept of Receptive Ecumenism'. This volume provides an indispensable point of reference for understanding and applying that concept in the life of the Christian churches today.

Corpus Mysticum

Corpus Mysticum
Author: Henri Cardinal de Lubac S.J.
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2007-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0268161097

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One of the major figures of twentieth-century Catholic theology, Henri Cardinal de Lubac was known for his attention to the doctrine of the church and its life within the contemporary world. In Corpus Mysticum de Lubacinvestigates a particular understanding of the relation of the church to the eucharist. He sets out the nature of the church as communion, a doctrine that influenced the thinking of the Second Vatican Council. With the publication of Corpus Mysticum, this important text of contemporary Catholic ecclesiology and sacramental theology is available for the first time in an English translation. Its publication fills a significant gap in the range of de Lubac's works available to English-speaking scholars. It will be an important resource in the widespread and ongoing ecumenical discussions among Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox theologians.

Flesh of the Church, Flesh of Christ

Flesh of the Church, Flesh of Christ
Author: Jean-Marie-Roger Tillard
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2001
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780814661819

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Renowned scholar J.-M. R. Tillard defines what the flesh of the Church is for the New Testament and the period of the undivided Church. He enables readers to understand not the structure of God's Church but the living reality of grace for which this structure exists. He explains that the "flesh of the church" is communion of life for humanity reconciled with the Father and with itself "in Christ".