In this Book
Liturgical Press
- The Sacraments: An Interdisciplinary and Interactive Study
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: Liturgical Press
summary
What are the sacraments, really?For centuries, the religious lives of Catholics and other Christians have revolved around church rituals with generally accepted individual and social effects. What, precisely, are those effects, and how are they produced? Traditional theology used Greek philosophy to understand the sacraments and how they work. But is there no other way to understand them? In fact, there are a number of ways, and this book invites you to look at the sacraments through a variety of lenses: psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, theology, morality, and spirituality.As the introduction to this volume challenges, If you read this book, and especially if you engage in the interactive study to which it invites you, your understanding of sacraments will be changed forever."To help personalize your investigation, the author has created a web site with thought-provoking questions that encourage you to interact with the ideas being proposed in this volume. To engage these topics more deeply, see www.TheSacraments.org.Joseph Martos is author of Doors to the Sacred: A Historical Introduction to Sacraments in the Catholic Church, which for more than a quarter of a century has been the most widely read book on the subject. Recently retired from full-time teaching, he has been a visiting professor in universities and theology schools in Canada and Australia as well as around the United States."
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. 1-4
- Invitation
- p. 5
- Chapter 4. The Sacraments in History
- pp. 105-123
- Chapter 5. The Sacraments in Theology
- pp. 124-177
- Chapter 6. The Sacraments and Morality
- pp. 178-216
- Chapter 7. The Sacraments and Spirituality
- pp. 217-261
- Conclusion
- pp. 262-264
Additional Information
ISBN
9780814657072
Related ISBN(s)
9780814653692
MARC Record
OCLC
966898872
Pages
280
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No