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Sacrament as Gift: A Pneumatological and Phenomenological Approach

Sacrament as Gift: A Pneumatological and Phenomenological Approach

Madathummuriyil, S.

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Series: Textes Et Études Liturgiques / Studies in Liturgy, Book 25

General Christianity

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ISBN10: 9042925965
ISBN13: 9789042925960
Publisher: Peeters
Published: Feb 29 2012
Pages: 361
Weight: 1.37
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
This study proceeds from an appreciation for recent phenomenologicaldevelopments in sacramental theology to construct a bridge between suchdevelopments and pneumatology. A rationale for such construction is thepostmodern critique that seeks to move beyond modern metaphysicalnotions of God as necessarily interpreted by the subject, to aphenomenological insistence on letting God reveal as Godself. To aid inthis project, the recent reclamation in the West of pneumatology, brought to prominence in Vatican II's liturgical-theological framework, is employed and drawn into a postmodern reconsideration of sacramentaltheology. The author also seeks to lessen theChristological-Pneumatological tension by advocating a biblically basedsense of salvation history as God's self-communication, enacted in theSon's and the Spirit's interrelated missions and thus highlighting theinherent Trinitarian dimensions. With these foundations, the HolySpirit's activity is then presented as central to the symbolic mediationexperienced through sacraments, both the traditional seven sacramentsand the Church as sacrament. The study draws in depth upon thesacramental theology of Jean-Luc Marion to argue for understandingdivinity as revealed through icon and thus as God's pure givenness, expressed without interference from a subject as conceived in themodernist scheme. Thus in Eucharist, our openness to the iconic gazeallows for recognition of the divine in the species of bread and wine, transformed through the Spirit's activity rather than through our ritualtransaction in language and symbols. Sacraments as gift are agapicexpressions that humans cannot adequately reciprocate; this realizationentails that humans freely respond and affirm the gift, in the gratefulstance of love answering love.

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