The Eucharist

by Edward Schillebeeckx

Overview

An outstanding contemporary analysis of the transubstantion and of its meaning and significance today . The first part of the book concentrates on the concerns and approach of the Fathers who defined the doctrine at The Council of Trent, the second part goes on to develop a mdern interpretation of 'the distinctively eucharistic manner of the Real Presence.'

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780860124009
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/01/2005
Pages:	162
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.35(d)

About the Author

Edward Schillebeeckx was an internationally known theologian and one of the leading progressives at the Second Vatican Council. He was the author of many books, including God is New Each Moment, published by Continuum. He died in 2010.

Table of Contents

	Introduction: Alarm Over New Interpretations	9
I	The Tridentine Approach to Faith	23
	The General Background	25
	The Text of the Dogma: Its Origin, Growth and Final Drafting	29
	Some Hermeneutic Afterthoughts	39
	The Concept "Substance," the Tradition of the Church and the Aristotelian Doctrine of Substance and Accidents	53
	The Problem: What Is Reality?	76
II	A New Approach Towards the Formulation of Faith	87
	Factors Heralding the New Approach	94
	The Conflict between Aristotelianism and Modern Physics	94
	The Rediscovery of the Sacramental Symbolic Activity	96
	The Sacrament as a Sign	96
	The New Anthropological Interpretation of the Religious Symbolic Act in General	99
	The Tridentine Concept of Substance	101
	The Manifold Realisation of the One "Real Presence" of Christ	103
	The Desire for Christian Unity	105
	The New Point of Departure for the Interpretation of the Eucharistic Presence	107
	The Distinctively Eucharistic Manner of the "Real Presence"	122
	Biblical Assumptions	122
	The Basic Principle: Reality Is Not Man's Handiwork	126
	The Basis of All Man's Giving of Meaning	126
	Human Giving of Meaning-Productive and Symbolic	130
	The Eucharist and "Bread and Wine" in Human Religious Symbolic Activity	134
	The Real Presence of Christ and of His Church in the Eucharist	137
	Transubstantiation and Transsignification or a New Giving of Meaning	144
	Reality and Its Phenomenal Appearance	145
	The "Body of the Lord" Appearing in Sacramental Form	148
	Conclusion: The "WHY" and the "HOW"	153

Editorial Reviews

"Schillebeeckx is an honourable forebear among theologians and can always be read with profit. The challenge to theologians in our time is to examine the foundations carefully and go on to build on what is solid, as he did." Susan K. Roll, Saint Paul University, Theoforum Vol. 39 No. 3, 2008--Sanford Lakoff

'A profound study made on the basis of established theological principles and with all the resources of theological scholarship. It is difficult to see on what ground Schillebeeckx's conclusions could be contested on any point.' Dom Illtyd trethowan, The Catholic Herald

'An important work, not least because Schillebeeckx stands unequivocally on the side of the authority of the Council of Trent. The translator too has done his work well.' Irish Theological Quarterly

"The work is still very relevant, both to historical studies on Trent and to the development of a theology of Eucharistic presence in the light of contemporary thinking and culture. Indeed, one might say that in Catholic circles Schillebeeckx's presentation surpasses much that has been written between then and now and students and scholars would benefit from returning to the careful and accurate thought of a "Magister "in the field. We can be grateful to Continuum for the reprint."- David N. Power, "The Catholic Historical Review, "July 2006

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