INTRODUCTION |
9 |
CHAPTER ONE - SACRAMENTAL REALISM |
12 |
CHAPTER TWO - THE REALISM OF SALVATION |
18 |
2.1 Divine providence and human automony |
20 |
2.2 Marriage, sacrament of creation in Christ |
25 |
2.3 Personalism and redemption |
31 |
2.3.1 The theory of “merit” and “satisfaction” |
31 |
2.3.2 The Mediator of divine life |
35 |
2.3.3 The suffering of the Mediator |
41 |
CHAPTER THREE - THE SACRAMENTALISM OF SALVATION |
50 |
3.1 Christ as archetypal sacrament |
52 |
3.2 The mystery of Christ |
57 |
3.3 The church as sacrament |
61 |
3.3.1 Sacrament of the Trinity |
66 |
3.3.2 Sacrament of the Mediation of Christ |
69 |
3.3.3 Word and sacrament |
75 |
CHAPTER FOUR - EUCHARIST: SACRAMENT OF WORSHIP AND COMMUNION |
80 |
4.1 Spiritual sacrifice |
83 |
4.2 The sacrifice of Christ |
87 |
4.3 Spiritual sacrifice and the Eucharist |
92 |
4.4 Sacramentalism and realism |
98 |
4.5 The Eucharist as sacrifice |
101 |
CHAPTER FIVE - BAPTISM: WORD AND SACRAMENT |
116 |
5.1 Faith and baptism |
116 |
5.2 The intervention of Christ |
120 |
5.3 The abiding sacrament |
128 |
CHAPTER SIX - THE QUESTION OF REALISM |
139 |
6.1 The retreat from realism |
139 |
6.2 Theology and a metaphysics of the real |
142 |
6.3 Word and sacrament |
149 |
6.4 The language of sacramental realism |
152 |
6.5 A Eucharistic hermeneutic |
162 |
CHAPTER SEVEN - A GENERAL THEORY OF THE SACRAMENTAL SYSTEM |
164 |
7.1 Personal conversion and sacrament |
165 |
7.2 The classical theory of the sacrament |
171 |
7.3 The reality and the sacrament |
177 |
CHAPTER EIGHT – A GENERAL THEORY OF THE SACRAMENTAL SYSTEM |
186 |
8.1 The abiding sacrament: Other cases |
187 |
8.1.1 Marriage |
187 |
8.1.2 Orders |
192 |
8.1.3 Confirmation |
197 |
8.1.4 Anointing of the sick and dying |
201 |
8.2 A general theory of the sacraments |
203 |
8.2.1 Professions of faith |
208 |
8.2.2 Efficacy from the risen Christ |
209 |
8.2.3 The sending of the Spirit |
212 |
8.2.4 The system |
215 |
INDEX |
219 |