| FLESH OF THE CHURCH, FLESH OF CHRIST |
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| FOREWORD |
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| A New Ecclesiology |
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| Abbreviations |
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| CHAPTER ONE All Linked Together by Salvation: For God, in Communion |
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| I. In Christ, in the Spirit |
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| II. The Branches of the Vine |
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| III. Bound with One Another, One Single Community |
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| IV. Never Alone in Salvation |
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| CHAPTER TWO All Joined into One Body, Eucharistic Body, Ecclesial Body |
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| I. A Ritual of Mutual Love |
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| II. Augustine, Witness of the West |
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| III. The Church Is Catholic because It Is a Communion |
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| IV. Body of Communion |
61 |
| V. The Rites in the East |
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| VI. John Chrysostom, Witness of the Church of Antioch |
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| VII. Cyril, Witness of the Church of Alexandria |
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| VIII. The Faith of the Tradition |
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| CHAPTER THREE All Taken into the One Sacrifice: The Sacrifice of Christ in the Church of |
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| I. The Sacrifice of Mercy and Service |
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| II. The Sacrifice of Laying Down One's Whole Self |
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| III. The Sacrifice of Life in the Priestly People |
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| IV. The Sacrifice Celebrated, Unified, and Nourished by the Eucharist |
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| V. The Sacrifice of Praise Culminating at the Synaxis |
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| VI. The Sacrifice of Faith |
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| VII. The Sacrifice: The Church of God |
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| CONCLUSION Flesh of the Church, Flesh of Christ |
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| INDEXES |
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| Subject Index |
145 |
| Scripture Index |
149 |
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