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Sola Scriptura Sacramentaque
Recovering the Significance of the Sacraments with Hilary of Poitiers and Robert W. Jenson
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2021
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The practice of the sacraments of baptism and the Eucharist allow Christians to read Scripture in the context of the church and in unity with the Trinity. Charles Meeks argues here, however, that over the centuries since the Reformation, Protestant expressions of the church have often allowed the sacraments to assume a minor role that has led to a weakening of Protestant ecclesiology and a disconnection of these ancient rituals from the gospel. To unpack this reality, Meeks relies on the work of fourth-century bishop Hilary of Poitiers and modern theologian Robert W. Jenson to examine the relationship between the sacraments and Scripture, the Trinity, and the church. With Hilary, he retrieves a hermeneutic that starts from the interdependence of the sacraments with all aspects of Christian life, especially the way one reads Scripture, formulates theology, and understands what the church is and is not. With Jenson, Meeks applies this hermeneutic to the modern church in an appeal to recover a premodern sense of God’s relationship to time, and thus how the church relates to God through Word and Sacrament.
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Copyright year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-9787-1059-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-9787-1060-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
202
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Dedication No access
Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
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Chapter 1 Why We Need the Sacraments, and How Hilary and Jenson Help Us No access Pages 1 - 16
Chapter 2 How Did We Protestants Get Here? No access Pages 17 - 52
Chapter 3 The Sacraments and Scripture No access Pages 53 - 100
Chapter 4 The Sacraments and the Trinity No access Pages 101 - 124
Chapter 5 The Sacraments and the Church No access Pages 125 - 160
Chapter 6 The Theological Path Back to the Table and the Font No access Pages 161 - 176
