Series statement from dust jacket. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Part VI. Philosophical and theological issues in sacramental doctrine. Part II. Patristic sacramental theology -- Part III. Medieval sacramental theology -- Part IV. From the Reformation through today -- Part V. Dogmatic approaches -- Part VI. Philosophical and theological issues in sacramental doctrine. Sacramentality and the Old Testament / R.W.L. Moberly -- Sacramentality in the Torah / Dennis T. Olson -- Intertestamental background of the Christian sacraments / Craig A. Evans and Jeremiah J. Johnston -- Sacraments and sacramentality in the New Testament / Nicholas Perrin -- Sacrifice and sacrament : sacramental implications of the death of Christ / Edith M. Humphrey -- Sacraments and the Gospel of John / Richard Bauckham -- Sacraments in the Pauline epistles / David Lincicum -- Sacramentality and sacraments in Hebrews / Luke Timothy Johnson -- Sacraments in the pre-Nicene period / Everett Ferguson -- Sacraments in the fourth century / Khaled Anatolios -- Augustine and the West to AD 650 / Lewis Ayres and Thomas Humphries -- Late patristic developments in sacramental theology in the East : fifth-ninth centuries / Andrew Louth -- Sacramental theology from Gottschalk to Lanfranc / Mark G. Vaillancourt -- The Christo-pneumatic-ecclesial character of twelfth-century sacramental theology / Boyd Taylof Coolman -- The sacraments in thirteenth-century theology / Joseph P. Wawrykow -- The eucharist in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / Ian Christopher Levy -- Sacramental ritual in middle and later Byzantine theology : ninth-fifteenth centuries / Yury P. Avvakumov -- Sacraments in the Lutheran Reformation / Mickey L. Mattox -- Sacraments in the Reformed and Anglican Reformation / Michael Allen -- Sacraments in the radical Reformation / John D. Rempel -- Sacraments in the Council of Trent and sixteenth-century Catholic theology / Peter Walter -- Orthodox sacramental theology : sixteenth-nineteenth centuries / Brian A. Butcher -- Post-Tridentine sacramental theology / Trent Pomplun -- Lutheran and Reformed sacramental theology : seventeenth-nineteenth centuries / Scott R. Swain -- Sacramental theology in America : seventeenth-nineteenth centuries / E. Brooks Holifield -- Sacraments in general and baptism in twentieth-century and contemporary protestant theology / Martha L. Moore-Keish -- The Lord's supper in twentieth-century and contemporary Protestant theology / George Hunsinger -- Catholic sacramental theology in the twentieth century / Peter J. Casarella -- Twentieth-century and contemporary Orthodox sacramental theology / Peter Galadza -- Liturgy, signs and sacraments / David W. Fagerberg -- One baptism, one church? / Geoffrey Wainwright -- Confirmation / Chad C. Pecknold and Lucas Laborde, S.S.J. -- What is the eucharist? A dogmatic outline / Bruce D. Marshall -- Marriage / Brent Waters -- The sacrament of orders dogmatically understood / Adam A.J. DeVille -- Reconciliation / Anthony Akinwale, O.P. -- Anointing of the sick / John C. Kasza -- Sacraments and philosophy / Thomas Joseph White, O.P. -- The sacraments and the development of doctrine / Benoît-Dominique de la Soujeole, O.P. -- A sacramental world : why it matters / David Brown -- Christ, the Trinity, and the sacraments / Francesca Aran Murphy -- Signs of the eschatological ekklesia : the sacraments, the church, and eschatology / Peter J. Leithart -- Liturgy, preaching, and the sacraments / Gordon W. Lathrop -- Sense and sacrament / Catherine Pickstock -- The sacraments in ecumenical dialogue / Jorge A. Scampini, O.P.
Summary:
"As a multi-faceted introduction to sacramental theology, the purposes of this Handbook are threefold: historical, ecumenical, and missional. The forty-four chapters are organized into the following parts five parts: Sacramental Roots in Scripture, Patristic Sacramental Theology, Medieval Sacramental Theology, From the Reformation through Today, and Philosophical and Theological Issues in Sacramental Doctrine. Contributors to this Handbook explain the diverse ways that believers have construed the sacraments, both in inspired Scripture and in the history of the Church's practice. In Scripture and the early Church, Orthodox, Protestants, and Catholics all find evidence that the first Christian communities celebrated and taught about the sacraments in a manner that Orthodox, Protestants, and Catholics today affirm as the foundation of their own faith and practice. Thus, for those who want to understand what has been taught about the sacraments in Scripture and across the generations by the major thinkers of the various Christian traditions, this Handbook provides an introduction. As the divisions in Christian sacramental understanding and practice are certainly evident in this Handbook, it is not thereby without ecumenical and missional value. This book evidences that the story of the Christian sacraments is, despite divisions in interpretation and practice, one of tremendous hope."--Publisher.
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