Sacramental Theology Archives

Brief Book Review: Hatch Match & Dispatch

Mark R. Francis, CSV reviews Hatch Match & Dispatch: A Catholic Guide to Sacraments by Richard Leonard, SJ

The Liturgical Office of Evangelist – a Proposal Inspired by the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene

July 21, 2019 Liborius Lumma Church Reform Ecumenism Eucharist Ordained Ministry Sacramental Theology

Calls for the admission of women to ordained offices in the Catholic Church are becoming louder than ever. I would like to make a proposal, which falls short of those calls, but makes use of the holistic power of liturgical symbolism.

Young Scholars Bring New Questions and Multiple Disciplines to Bear on Sacramental Theology

June 28, 2019 Bruce Morrill Environment and Ecology Eucharist Liturgical Spirituality Liturgy and Virtues Penance-Reconciliation Sacramental Theology

Drone warfare, consumer culture, guilt-driven obedience, faith amidst a pluralistic world are among topics six fresh voices address in a growing collection of articles on sacramental-liturgical theology.

At Forty Days—The Offering of a Child

March 1, 2019 Teva Regule Eastern Liturgy Pastoral Theology Sacramental Theology

“The churching of a child is an offering to God and the altar is the place where we make such offerings.”

A Sacramental Imagination — Without the Superheroes

February 19, 2019 Jakob K Rinderknecht Sacramental Theology

Last week, I wrote about two tempting primrose paths in thinking about the sacraments. If you didn’t read that one, I’d encourage you to go

The “Sacramental Imagination” — and Superheros

February 12, 2019 Jakob K Rinderknecht Sacramental Theology

Catholics use the language of “sacrament” very frequently. We are a sacramental people, with a sacramental imagination. But what exactly that means is something that

Church, Ordination, and Power

December 20, 2018 Liborius Lumma Church Reform Ordained Ministry Sacramental Theology

Some thoughts about how the Catholic Church should deal with structures of power.

Ordering the Body: 1. Unity in Difference

November 20, 2018 Jakob K Rinderknecht Eucharist Ordained Ministry Sacramental Theology Vatican II

The first of a series on the Sacrament of Order. This piece begins to consider why the sacrament has that name and why the latin name is singular (“order”) and not plural (“orders”).

Baptism, Eucharist, and Artistic Tokens of New Heavens and a New Earth

October 21, 2018 Bruce Morrill Inculturation Music: General Sacramental Theology Social Justice

Now in its second decade on the stages of Nashville’s storied Ryman Auditorium and Lipscomb University, the Tokens Show presents lively entertainment as an ongoing “cultural experiment” pulling together Americana, folk, and contemporary music wherein music-making, song-singing, and conversations help imagine a world of beauty and wonder, justice and mercy, peace and graciousness.

St. Benedict’s Raven

September 12, 2018 Jakob K Rinderknecht Children Church Reform Ecumenism Sacramental Theology Vatican II

A sacramental understanding of the church is necessary to any contemporary reform movement because without it we cannot separate loyalty to the institution from fidelity to Christ, even when those institutions become poisonous.

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