Sacramental Theology

Both resistance to and renewed interest in the sacraments mark current theological thought. This work acknowledges human limitations of the sacraments but stresses that God's relationship to human beings cannot be other than sacramental." Sacramental structures and events constitute salvation history, and thus permeate all theology. What makes this sacramental view comprehensible is faith; faith is an indispensable precondition for a sacramental theology.

Therefore, the author first demonstrates the preconditions of faith on which sacramental theology rests, and what place it holds within the whole of theology. Following this, he briefly presents the concept of sacraments and the history of that concept, the teachings of Church tradition on sacraments in general, and the basic features of a sacramental theology. Next, he explains from a theological perspective the traditional sacraments of the Catholic Church, including related topics such as indulgences and sacramentals.

• SCM Core Text: Wisdom Literature
• Worship as Theology: Foretaste of Glory Divine
• The Rites of Christian Initiation: Their Evolution and Interpretation (Revised and Expanded Edition)
• The Sacraments - The Word of God at the Mercy of the Body
• From the Depths of Our Hearts: Priesthood, Celibacy and the Crisis of the Catholic Church
• New Short History of the Catholic Church
• A Brief History of Christian Worship
• Saint Joseph Guide for Liturgy of the Hours (2020)
• When the Church Was Young
• The Spirit of the Liturgy