SYMBOL AND SACRAMENT: A Sacramental Reinterpretation of Christian Existence

Louis-Marie Chauvet

ISBN 10: 0814661246 / ISBN 13: 9780814661246

Published by A Pueblo Book (The Liturgical Press), Collegeville, MN, 1995

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569p. Ex-library hardcover book in original cloth. Label residue on spine, stamps on endpapers and title page, and label in back. Otherwise a clean, tight hardcover book in very good condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SYMBOL AND SACRAMENT: A Sacramental Reinterpretation of Christian Existence
• Publisher: A Pueblo Book (The Liturgical Press), Collegeville, MN
• Publication Date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0814661246
• ISBN 13: 9780814661246
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Catholic Theology

About this title

Synopsis

This 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.

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About the Author

Fr. Louis-Marie Chauvet is a professor of sacramental theology at the Institut Catholique, Paris. He has published numerous works and is the author of Symbol and Sacrament also published by Liturgical Press.