Symbol and sacrament : a sacramental reinterpretation of Christian existence /
Louis-Marie Chauvet ; translated by Patrick Madigan and Madeleine Beaumont.
- Collegeville, Minn. : Liturgical Press, 1995.
- xvii, 569 pages : ill. ; 23 cm.
"A Pueblo book."
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
From the Metaphysical to the Symbolic -- Critique of the Onto-theological Presuppositions of Classical Sacramental Theology --Sacramental Causality According to St. Thomas -- The Productionist Scheme of Representation --Overcoming Onto-Theology? -- Overcoming Metaphysics According to Heidegger -- Theology and Philosophy -- Theology and Psychoanalysis -- Mediation -- The Unavoidable Mediation of Symbolic Order -- Symbolic Exchange -- Symbol and Body -- The Act of Symbolization -- The Symbolic Efficacy of Rites -- The Symbol and the Body -- Openness : The Sacramentality of the Faith -- The Sacraments in the Symbolic Network of the Faith of the Faith of the Church -- A Fundamental Theology of Sacramental -- Description of the Structure of Christian Identity -- The Structuring of Faith According to the Story of Emmaus -- Remarks on the Function of the Church in Our Diagram -- The Relation Between Scripture and Sacrament -- The Liturgical Assembly : The Place of Scripture -- The Sacramentality of Scripture -- The Relation Between Sacrament and Ethics -- The Eschatological Status of the Jewish Cult -- The Eschatological Status of the Christian Cult -- The Letter, the Rite, and the Body -- How the Structure Functions : The Process of Symbolic Exchange -- Eucharistic Prayer Number 2 -- Testing of This Hypothesis: The Anti-Sacrificial Status of Symbolic Exchange in Christianity -- Risk and Opportunities of the Vocabulary of Sacrifice -- The Symbolizing Act of Christian Identity -- The Sacraments : Acts of Ritual Symbolization -- The Fundamental Law of Religious Rituality : Symbolic Practice -- A Theological Interpretation of Several Major Components of Rituality -- A Symbolization of the Whole Human Being as Corporality -- The Corporality of the Faith --The Sacraments as Instituted -- Dialectics of the Instituting and Instituted -- The Institution of the Sacraments by Jesus Christ : The Crux of the Question -- The Eucharistic Boby of the Lord: An Exemplary Figure of the Resistance of the Sacrament as Instituted -- The Sacraments as Instituting -- A Forging of Identity -- The Twofold Impasse of Sacramental Theology -- The Sacraments : Effective Symbolic Expressions -- A Gracious "Letting Be"-- Sacramental Theology and Trinitarian Christology -- From Sacramental Discourse to Christological Discourse -- The Sacraments of the New Pasch -- Scholastic Sacramental Theolog's Point of Departure: The Hypostatic Union -- Our Starting Point: The Pasch of Christ -- The Sacraments: Symbolic Figures of God's Effacement -- Sacramental Grace, or the Advent of in Corporality --The Christological Pole : The sacraments, Memorials of the Crucified Who Was Raised -- The Pneumatological Pole : The Sacraments, Memorials in the Holy Spirit -- The Sacraments : Places of Grace -- A Countercheck : The Non-Sacramental Theology of Karl Barth -- Sacrament: Creation, History, and Eschatology.