Eugene R. Schlesinger

Sacrificing the Church (eBook, PDF)

Mass, Mission, and Ecumenism

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978783898
• Artikelnr.: 74846731

Autorenporträt

Eugene R. Schlesinger is lecturer in the department of religious studies at Santa Clara University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter One: Trinitarian Soteriology: Towards a Theology of
the One Sacrifice of Christ Chapter Two: Augustine and the One Sacrifice of
Christ Interlude: The Mass Preceded by Mission Chapter Three: The Sacrifice
of Christ in the Mass Interlude: The Mass Flows into Mission (and Back)
Chapter Four: The Sacrifice of Christ in Mission Interlude: Both Mission
and Mass Depend upon Ecumenism Chapter Five: The Sacrifice of Christ in
Ecumenism Conclusion: Sacrificing the Church as the Church's Being