Reprint

Sacramental Theology: Theory and Practice from Multiple Perspectives

Theory and Practice from Multiple Perspectives

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November 2019
154 pages
  • ISBN978-3-03921-718-2 (Paperback)
  • ISBN978-3-03921-719-9 (PDF)

This is a Reprint of the Special Issue Sacramental Theology: Theory and Practice from Multiple Perspectives that was published in

Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities
Summary

Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, sacramental theology has evolved as a discipline advancing comprehensive theories of sacraments and sacramentality as integral to the Christian faith while also studying the history and theology of the particular rites. Now, in the twenty-first century, the need for attention to the actual performance and specific social settings of sacramental worship has become well established. This makes the work of sacramental theology necessarily engaged with multiple, cross-disciplinary theories attentive to particular contexts, whether local, national, or global. Still, the divine human encounter at the heart of Christian symbol and ritual likewise beckons to philosophical–theological reflection. The essays in this volume begin with profound philosophical perspectives on the personal and communal sacramental experience, expanding from traditional cosmology to evolutionary and chaos theories of our planetary existence, continuing with shifts, especially among youth, to interreligious and non-institutional perspectives, consideration of change in popular notions of guilt, and social–ethical issues in relation to liturgical theology and practice, so as finally to return to fundamental theological reflection on human sacramentality and divine revelation.

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© 2020 by the authors; CC BY license
Keywords
Epic of Evolution; sacramental theology; Eucharist; ecology; sacramental universe; ecological grace; E.O. Wilson; Eucharist; liturgy; phenomenology; Jean-Luc Marion; Jean-Yves Lacoste; Emmanuel Falque; critical realism; social theory; liturgical theology; sacramental theology; theological ethics; Margaret Archer; social structures; agency; sacramental theology; Roman Catholic Church; confession; sacrament of penance; Catholic guilt; psychoanalysis; moral theology; history of Catholicism in the United States; frequent communion; Antoine Vergote; drones; Eucharist; theology; ontology; apophaticism; pansacramentalism; sacramentality; interreligious; lived religion; interreligious studies; coloniality; decoloniality; chaos theory; sacrament; post-colonial theory; pandemonium tremendum; revelation; sacrament; hermeneutics; Holy Spirit; Pneumatology; spirituality; symbol; ekstasis; John Zizioulas; communal ontology; ritual theory; creation; climate change; baptism; vocation; Synod on the Youth; laity; mystagogy; disaffiliation; Second Vatican Council

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