“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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Tag: Sacramental Theology
Brief Book Review: Living under Water
“Diverse, compelling, and filled with pastoral and ecumenical wisdom.”
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Brief Book Review: Death by Baptism
Honeycutt confronts head-on truncated understandings of baptism as “fire insurance” against eternity in hell or as supernatural guarantee against misfortune.
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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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Brief Book Review: Practical Sacramental Theology
Mark Francis reviews Practical Sacramental Theology by Bruce Morrill.
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Liturgy in a Time of Ecclesial Crisis: Addressing Trauma, Shame, and Abuse
Grappling with suffering due to ecclesial and civic irresponsibility, probing how liturgical and ministerial polity can prove of help or hindrance
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Book Review: The Wedding Feast of the Lamb
“Nothing is more destructive for the meaning of the liturgy than the mode of bracketing it off, or abstracting it from time–making it belong to no time and certainly not to the continuous present of our ordinary daily lives.”
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Review: Speaking With Aquinas, by David Turnbloom
David Turnbloom’s impressive study of how Thomas Aquinas understands the Eucharist to produce it’s effects, and what those effects are, is both an important new work of sacramental theology and an important investigation of how differing theologies can profitably dialogue.
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