Symbol and Sacrament: A Sacramental Reinterpretation of Christian ExistenceThis work comes at an opportune hour: a time in which many complain that contemporary theology lacks a general theory of sacraments. Chauvet charts a reorientation in sacramental theology from the scholastic treatments, which appropriated the metaphysical categories of causality and substance to develop an essentially instrumentalist appreciation of grace, in favor of an approach through the category of symbol." In this approach the subject is as much "grasped" (and transformed) by the symbolic representation as is the object being interpreted. Chauvet commands a wealth of scholarship which he deploys to powerful effect. His work in developing a foundational theology of sacramentality will remain the standard for years to come. " |
Contents
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Overcoming OntoTheology? | 46 |
A Transitive Way | 54 |
Theology and Philosophy | 63 |
Theology and Psychoanalysis | 76 |
The Cultic Vocabulary of Christians at the Beginning | 254 |
The Letter the Rite and the Body | 262 |
Eucharistic Prayer Number 2 | 268 |
A Point of Passage | 281 |
The AntiSacrificial Status | 290 |
A Sacrifice? | 297 |
The Thesis of R Girard | 303 |
Sacrifice of Expiation and Sacrifice of Communion | 310 |
Toward Sacrament | 82 |
Language Creative Expression | 88 |
How the Subject Comes to Be through Language | 92 |
Consent to the Presence of the Absence | 98 |
Two Levels of Language | 112 |
The Two Poles of Every Language | 124 |
The Performance Dimension of the Act of Symbolization | 130 |
The Symbolic Efficacy of Rites | 135 |
Language as Writing | 141 |
The Sacramentality of the Faith | 152 |
Introduction | 159 |
Story of Emmaus | 161 |
The Story of the Disciples on the Road to Emmaus | 167 |
An Extension of Our Model | 178 |
To Receive the Church as a Grace | 185 |
The Jewish Bible and Liturgy | 191 |
The Place of Scripture | 200 |
The Connection of the Book to the Social Body | 204 |
The Reading of the Book in the Liturgical Ecclesia | 210 |
Precipitate of the Scriptures | 220 |
Chapter Seven | 228 |
The Eschatological Status of the Christian Cult | 239 |
Jesus and the Cult | 240 |
The Easter Tear | 247 |
Chapter Nine | 319 |
Ritual Language in Our Culture | 327 |
Symbolic Programming and Reiteration | 339 |
A Symbolic Economy of Spareness | 346 |
Evangelizing Rituality | 353 |
The Symbolization of Sociality and Tradition | 359 |
The Symbolization of the Hidden Order of Desire | 365 |
The Corporality of the Faith | 372 |
The Enfleshment of Faith | 376 |
A Symbolic Approach to the Mystery of the Eucharistic Body | 389 |
Chapter Eleven | 409 |
The Subjectivist Impasse | 416 |
The Language of Faith and the Language of Liturgy | 426 |
Sacramental Grace | 438 |
Summary | 444 |
Chapter Twelve | 450 |
The Presuppositions of This Sacramental Theology Relative | 474 |
The Inclusion of Jesus Concrete Life in the Easter Mystery | 487 |
A Symbolic Meontology | 499 |
The Spirit or the Difference of God Inscribing Itself | 518 |
Places of Grace | 531 |
The Equipoise of the Christological and Pneumatological | 545 |
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