Description
Both resistance to and renewed interest in the sacraments mark current theological thought. This work acknowledges human limitations of the sacraments but stresses that God's relationship to human beings cannot be other than sacramental. Sacramental structures and events constitute salvation history, and thus permeate all theology. What makes this sacramental view comprehensible is faith; faith is an indispensable precondition for a sacramental theology.
Therefore, the author first demonstrates the preconditions of faith on which sacramental theology rests, and what place it holds within the whole of theology. Following this, he briefly presents the concept of sacraments and the history of that concept, the teachings of Church tradition on sacraments in general, and the basic features of a sacramental theology. Next, he explains from a theological perspective the traditional sacraments of the Catholic Church, including related topics such as indulgences and sacramentals.
Author: Herbert Vorgrimler
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 09/01/1992
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 8.58h x 6.42w x 0.84d
ISBN13: 9780814619940
ISBN10: 0814619940
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Theology | Soteriology
- Religion | Christianity | Catholic
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