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The Collected Works of Edward Schillebeeckx Volume 1: Christ the Sacrament of the Encounter with God

by Edward Schillebeeckx

  • Paperback
  • 192 pages
  • Publisher: T&T Clark
  • 15.4 x 23.4 x 1.1 cm

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For theology students and academic researchers.

Explains a modern, anthropological view of sacraments.

Gives you a fresh, mystical perspective on grace.

This classic work offers a profound, modern exploration of Christ as the primordial sacrament.

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This is a new edition of the 1963 classic which gave Christological thought a new direction. As far back as his first major book Schillebeeckx propounded an anthropological approach to the sacraments. In Christ the Sacrament of the Encounter with God, he draws on theologically fruitful work by phenomenological anthropologists like Merleau-Ponty, Buytendijk and Binswanger. That makes Schillebeeckx's distinctive idiom and modern approach appealing even today. He rediscovers, as it were from within, the notions forged by scholastic theology, and thus restores to us a theology of the sacraments rooted in the biblical and patristic soil from which they first sprang. Schillebeeckx's speculative synthesis of this quest still has a fresh ring to it. He describes Christ as the primordial sacrament in a reflection on his public ministry, death and resurrection inspired by the universal human search for such a 'sacrament'. He concludes that the church's sacraments have to be an earthly extension of the liberation brought by Christ's story. Schillebeeckx ends by describing sacraments as grace made visible that gives crowning moments in Christian life a mystical quality. Edward Schillebeeckx Collected Works bring together the most important and influential works of the Dutch Dominican and theologian Edward Schillebeeckx (1914-2009) in a reliable edition. All translations have been carefully checked or revised, some texts are presented in English for the first time. The page numbers of earlier editions are included. Each volume carries a foreword by an internationally renowned Schillebeeckx expert. This edition makes Schillebeeckx available for a new generation of scholars and students.
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The Collected Works of Edward SchillebeeckxThe Collected Works of Edward Schillebeeckx Volume 1: Christ the Sacrament of the Encounter with God

  • Title

    The Collected Works of Edward Schillebeeckx Volume 1: Christ the Sacrament of the Encounter with God

  • Author

    Edward Schillebeeckx

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    T&T Clark

  • Published

    November 2018

  • Weight

    273g

  • Page Count

    192

  • Dimensions

    15.4 x 23.4 x 1.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780567685384

  • ISBN-10

    0567685381

  • Eden Code

    4685187