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Sacrificing the Church

Mass, Mission, and Ecumenism

By: Eugene R. Schlesinger

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Sacrificing the Church

Mass, Mission, and Ecumenism

By: Eugene R. Schlesinger

In a context of scandal and decline, the Christian church cannot afford to do business as usual. It must regain its bearings and clarify its nature and purpose. Sacrificing the Church provides this clarity by returning to the church’s foundation: Jesus Christ and him crucified. It presents an ecclesiological vision in which every aspect of the church’s life flows from and expresses the one sacrifice of Christ. This sacrifice is the basis of every ecclesial experience, the form and content of the church’s life, a life which shares in the eternal Trinitarian life of God. By and as Christ’s sacrifice we are introduced into the divine life. This participation plays out in three key areas, which set the church’s agenda in the contemporary world: its worship of God (Mass), mission to the world (mission), and efforts toward the unity of all people, beginning with divided Christians (ecumenism).

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1978700016

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A Missional Liturgical Ecclesiology

By: Eugene R. Schlesinger

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A Missional Liturgical Ecclesiology

By: Eugene R. Schlesinger

The twenty-first-century church cannot afford to neglect mission. When church and culture no longer share a common outlook, the only way forward is mission. Pope Francis recognizes this in his call for a missionary conversion of the church. Responding to this invitation, is a constructive work in ecclesiology addressing the relationship between liturgy and mission in the church's life. It advances a notion of the church grounded in both liturgy and mission, where neither is subordinated to nor collapsed into the other. The church's liturgical rites disclose and enact the church's identity as a missionary community. Close examination of the sources at the heart of traditional communion ecclesiology: Trinitarian theology, the sacraments of initiation, and eucharistic theology, yields an ecclesiology in which the church is constituted by both liturgy and mission. These are two distinct ways of participating in the triune life of God, which is revealed in the paschal mystery. The church's pilgrimage to God's kingdom takes it through the world in mission. The church, as the body of Christ, is given away to God and to the world, for the world's salvation. The result is a contemporary restatement of traditional ecclesiology, transposed into a missional key.

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Fortress Press

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1506418597

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Ruptured Bodies

A Theology of the Church Divided

By: Eugene R. Schlesinger

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Ruptured Bodies

A Theology of the Church Divided

By: Eugene R. Schlesinger

Ruptured Bodies is a systematic theological account of the divided church. It argues that no adequate ecclesiology can ignore division, because it will not describe the church that actually is. Such an understanding must integrate the reality of division, while also refusing to blunt its sharp edge; neither dismissing, excusing, or minimizing it. What must the church, be given the fact of its division? Schlesinger presents a systematic ecclesiology of the divided church despite that idea's seeming impossibility, because such an ecclesiology is precisely what we need"--

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Augsburg Fortress Publishers

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1506489672

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9781506489674

Salvation in Henri de Lubac

Divine Grace, Human Nature, and the Mystery of the Cross

By: Eugene R. Schlesinger

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Salvation in Henri de Lubac

Divine Grace, Human Nature, and the Mystery of the Cross

By: Eugene R. Schlesinger

This study provides a compelling account of the major works of Henri de Lubac, one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century, and argues that soteriology provides a lens through which their inner unity can be discerned. The writings of Henri de Lubac have left an indelible mark on Catholic theology, preparing the ground for, giving shape to, and explaining the seminal event of twentieth-century Catholicism: the Second Vatican Council. Like the Council itself, though, de Lubac remains a contested figure, difficult to classify. Salvation in Henri de Lubac presents an overview of de Lubac’s major works in light of his own statements that a mystical vision animated them all. De Lubac’s mystical theology hinges upon a vision of salvation, understood as humanity’s incorporation into the triune God through the cross and resurrection of the incarnate Christ. From his writings on the supernatural and theological epistemology, to his treatments of the spiritual interpretation of Scripture, ecclesiology, sacramental theology, and the theology of history, the mystery of the cross looms large, gathering these disparate topics into one focal center while also allowing their distinct contours to remain. By attending to de Lubac’s work in this light, Eugene R. Schlesinger brings important themes from French language scholarship into the English-speaking conversation and clarifies the nature of de Lubac’s ressourcement. It is not a method, nor a sensibility, but the outgrowth of a conviction: in the mystery of Christ a definitive and unsurpassable gift has been given, one that constitutes the meaning of the world and its history, one whose riches can never be exhausted. Schlesinger claims that unless we understand de Lubac and his work in light of his own motivations and emphases, we risk distorting his contribution, reducing him to a proxy in the struggle for post-conciliar Catholic self-definition.

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University of Notre Dame Pess

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0268205523

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A Missional Liturgical Ecclesiology

By: Eugene R. Schlesinger

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Ruptured Bodies

A Theology of the Church Divided

By: Eugene R. Schlesinger

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Ruptured Bodies

A Theology of the Church Divided

By: Eugene R. Schlesinger

The divided church is withering on the vine. Crises of its own making--ranging from clergy sexual abuse and its cover-up to the church's complicity in colonialism, empire, and patriarchy--coupled with societal shifts beyond the church's control, have eroded its credibility. A much-deserved decline is well underway. And yet, churches remain content to continue with business as usual. The causes of this state of crisis are manifold and complex, and no one solution could resolve them all. But so long as the church remains in a state of division, no solutions will be forthcoming. Division is no mere regrettable shortcoming or inconvenience; it is a contradiction of the church's foundation. After all, Jesus prayed that his followers would be one so the world could believe he was sent by God. Faced with a crisis of credibility, the church finds no way forward because a divided church renders the gospel message not credible. Ruptured Bodies is a systematic theological account of the divided church. It argues that no adequate ecclesiology can ignore division, because in doing so, it will fail to describe the church that actually is. Such an understanding must integrate the reality of division, while also refusing to blunt its sharp edge--neither dismissing, excusing, nor minimizing it. What must the church be, given the fact of its division? Schlesinger presents a systematic ecclesiology of the divided church despite that idea's seeming impossibilty, because such an ecclesiology is precisely what we need.

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1506489680

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Salvation in Henri de Lubac

Divine Grace, Human Nature, and the Mystery of the Cross

By: Eugene R. Schlesinger

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Divine Grace, Human Nature, and the Mystery of the Cross

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