Sacrificing the Church: Mass, Mission, and Ecumenism

Eugene R. Schlesinger

doi:10.5771/9781978700017

Summary

In a context of scandal and decline, the Christian church cannot afford to do business as usual. It must regain its bearings and clarify its nature and purpose. Sacrificing the Church provides this clarity by returning to the church’s foundation: Jesus Christ and him crucified. It presents an ecclesiological vision in which every aspect of the church’s life flows from and expresses the one sacrifice of Christ. This sacrifice is the basis of every ecclesial experience, the form and content of the church’s life, a life which shares in the eternal Trinitarian life of God. By and as Christ’s sacrifice we are introduced into the divine life. This participation plays out in three key areas, which set the church’s agenda in the contemporary world: its worship of God (Mass), mission to the world (mission), and efforts toward the unity of all people, beginning with divided Christians (ecumenism).

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Edition: 1/2019
Copyright Year: 2019
ISBN-Print: 978-1-9787-0000-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-9787-0001-7
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 193
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgements No access
3. Abbreviations No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
1 Trinitarian Soteriology No access Pages 13 - 32
2 Augustine and the One Sacrifice of Christ No access Pages 33 - 52
Interlude I: The Mass Preceded by Mission No access Pages 53 - 62
3 The Sacrifice of Christ in the Mass No access Pages 63 - 92
Interlude II: The Mass Flows into Mission (and Back) No access Pages 93 - 100
4 The Sacrifice of Christ in Mission No access Pages 101 - 122
Interlude III: Both Mission and Mass Depend upon Ecumenism No access Pages 123 - 136
5 The Sacrifice of Christ in Ecumenism No access Pages 137 - 162
Conclusion No access Pages 163 - 170
Bibliography No access Pages 171 - 184
Index No access Pages 185 - 192
About the Author No access Pages 193 - 193