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This review is from: Symbol and Sacrament: A Sacramental Reinterpretation of Christian Existence (Hardcover)
While this is not an easy book to read, I found it a fountain of profound insights and intriguing ideas. This is "state of the art" theology; an inquiry into God and sacramental life which rather than being afraid of contemporary continental philosophy and psychoanalytic thought, embraces them in an impassioned effort to bring to light what ultimately is beyond words. When I feel like giving up on Christianity because of its dogmatism and naivite`, I remember this book, and leave the door open.
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Louis-Marie Chauvet's reinterpretation of sacraments through a Heideggerian lens provides a postmetaphysical context in which Christianity can remain a vital force in a postmodern world. In the distinction between "market exchanges" and "symbolic exchanges" one is reminded of market economies and gift economies. This book is incredibly dense but exceptionally well organized. It avoids gnostic denigration of bodily existence, instead affirming the inherent goodness of physical existence and the "liminal position" of the body. I read this book alongside Poetry, Language, Thought (Perennial Classics) and The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays and The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion which provided an even richer context for this profound work on sacramentality.
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This work is, indeed, a scholarly effort, but moreover it is a part of a tradition of scholarly effort. This book is an excellent example of theology (another academic discipline) attempting to transcend metaphysics in the way that Heidegger claims he can. Chauvet is clear in his ideas, if not concise--the book is rather long. However, Chauvet smartly and systematically applies his intellectual and spiritual faculties to exploring what a serious understanding of Heidegger's descrpition of the world would mean for theology, particularly sacramental theology.At the very least, the work offers a fascinating perspective on the influence of philosophy on theology. At its best, the book offers a deeper, more comprehensive, and richer understanding of both (insofar as they are separable, which may be not at all) Christianity itself as well as institutionalized Christianity, a much maligned (and perhaps needlessly and ignorantly maligned) tradition.
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The initial question of the present study may be formulated as follows: How did it come about that, when attempting to comprehend theologically the sacramental relation with God expressed most fully under the term "grace," the Scholastics (and here we will consider only Thomas Aquinas) singled out for privileged consideration the category of "cause"? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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The initial question of the present study may be formulated as follows: How did it come about that, when attempting to comprehend theologically the sacramental relation with God expressed most fully under the term "grace," the Scholastics (and here we will consider only Thomas Aquinas) singled out for privileged consideration the category of "cause"? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
something facing humans, illocutionary modality, mature proximity, productionist scheme, cultic formalism, ritual rupture, ritual programming, obligatory generosity, significant materiality, human corporality, illocutionary dimension, cultic vocabulary, ecclesial mediations, symbolic efficacy, corpus verum, primary symbolism, sacramental representation, concrete mediation, symbolic rupture, symbolic labor, threefold body, langage religieux, text pertain, sacramental body, sacramental mediation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit, New Testament, Risen One, Lord Jesus, Church Fathers, Last Supper, Old Testament, Council of Trent, Cahiers Evangile, Peter Lombard, Jesus of Nazareth, Karl Barth, Middle Ages, Nouveau Testament, Thomas Aquinas, Catholic Church, Spirit of God, Christian Bible, Patrologia Latina, Albert the Great, Church of Christ, L'Autre Testament, Pasch of Christ, Son of God New!
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- Anti-Pelagian Writings [A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church - Volume V] (v. 5) by St. Augustine on page 459, and page 460
- Easter Vigil and Other Poems by Karol Wojtyla on page 480
- The Summa Theologica (Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 19 & 20) by Thomas Aquinas on page 453
- Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant on page 43
- The crucified God: The cross of Christ as the foundation and criticism of Christian theology by Jurgen Moltmann on page 494
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- Beyond Ritual: Sacramental Theology After Habermas by Siobhan Garrigan on 5 pages
- Bodies of Worship by Bruce T. Morrill in Front Matter, page 20, and Back Matter
- Holy Preaching, The by Paul Janowiak on page 177, and Back Matter
- Primary Sources of Liturgical Theology by Dwight W. Vogel on page 192, and page 198
- The One in the Many: A Contemporary Reconstruction of the God-World Relationship by Joseph A. Bracken on page 31, and page 50
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