Could aspects of Fijian cultural meals be incorporated into the church’s eucharistic tradition?
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Category: Sacramental Theology
Brief Book Review: The Euchalogion Unveiled
“The volume…expands our understanding of the ‘mysteries’ of the Church by using older lists of what was considered a ‘sacrament.'”
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Brief Book Review: Living under Water
“Diverse, compelling, and filled with pastoral and ecumenical wisdom.”
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Brief Book Review: A Theology of the Sacraments
Kimbrough and McIntyre have created a fine book for study groups willing to engage with new music.
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Choose Your Poison: An Ecumenist’s Reflection on Catholic Fumblings Over Baptismal Formulas
My real point is that to justify ourselves by comparing our ideals with other traditions’ realities is and always has been a logical and rhetorical fallacy. Ideals always win out. But such wins get us nowhere.
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Touchless Holy Water Font?
Yikes. Someone, no doubt well-intentioned, got the idea to create a holy water font that pretty much wrecks the idea of recalling one’s baptism with
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Brief Book Review: Table and Temple
Melinda Quivik reviews Table and Temple: The Christian Eucharist and Its Jewish Roots.
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“What have candles to do with flowers?”
I am often amazed at how rarely academics have a chance (or take the opportunity) to listen to their colleagues speak about their own work,
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Brief Book Review: Eating Together, Becoming One
David Stosur reviews Thomas O’Loughlin, Eating Together, Becoming One.
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The Confirmation Conversation, continued
If the confirmation debate is over, it’s probably only over for now.
Paul Turner responds to Tim Gabrielli.