Beyond Ritual
Subtitle: Sacramental Theology After Habermas
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: June 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780754636113
Subjects: Christian theology; Religion; Habermas, Jurgen; Religion - Theology; Theology; Christian Theology - Soteriology; Critical theory; Philosophy; Catholic Church; Methodology; Sacraments
First sentence: Christianity's 'sacraments' have long been defined as its central institutions and the way that theology today defines them is indeed 'remote from the practical meaning of the Christian message', with its accessible God of love and suffering, its imperative to forgive, its ethic of social justice and its claim that hope is greater than death.