The Sacraments

The Word of God at the Mercy of the Body

By: Louis-Marie Chauvet

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Why, from its very beginnings, has the Church celebrated the sacraments, in particular baptism and Eucharist? Why, from its origin, has faith in Christ, which is expressed in a human, free, just, loving way of living, ruled by the gospel, also been expressed in the language of rites? The Sacraments by Louis-Marie Chauvet offers reflections on the theology, celebration, and pastoral usage of the sacraments. It is a textbook version of Chauvet's, Symbol and Sacrament published by The Liturgical Press in 1995 that was acclaimed by theologians as offering a fresh theology of the sacraments from a perspective other than scholastic theology. Fr. Louis-Marie Chauvet is a professor of sacramental theology at the Institut Catholique, Paris. He has published numerous works and is the author of Symbol and Sacrament also published by The Liturgical Press.

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It will challenge you to think about the sacraments in the broader scope of human and divine communication, and to appreciate them for their mystical core.Liturgy Network

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Introduction	p. ix
Theology	p. ix
The Basic Pastoral Question	p. x
The Basic Theological Question	p. xi
Overture: Three Theoretical Models	p. xiii
Objectivist Model	p. xiv
Subjectivist Model	p. xvii
The Vatican II Model	p. xxi
Structure: The Symbolic Order: The Sacraments: One Element of Christian Existence
The Human Subject in Language and Culture	p. 3
Language as Instrument	p. 3
Language as Mediation	p. 6
The Symbolic Order	p. 13
The Christian Subject in the Language and Culture of the Church	p. 19
The Structure of Christian Identity	p. 20
Three Key Texts	p. 20
Chapter 24 of the Gospel of Luke	p. 22
The Story of the Disciples of Emmaus	p. 23
The Mediation of the Church	p. 29
Scriptures/Sacraments/Ethics	p. 29
The Priority of the Ecclesial "We"	p. 31
The Celebrating Assembly	p. 34
Pastoral Consequences	p. 38
Faith or the Assent to a Loss	p. 39
The Temptation of Immediacy	p. 39
Maintaining a Distance	p. 40
Relations between the Elements of the Structure	p. 43
Relations between the Scriptures and Sacrament	p. 43
The Scriptures, Sacrament of God's Word	p. 43
The Sacrament, "Precipitate" of the Scriptures	p. 47
Evangelization and Sacraments	p. 51
Relations between Sacraments and Ethics	p. 54
Jewish Worship	p. 54
Jesus and Jewish Worship	p. 59
The Status of Christian Worship	p. 61
Conclusion	p. 65
One Element of the Structure: The Sacraments as Ritual Symbols
Symbol	p. 69
What Is Meant by Symbol	p. 69
Some Examples	p. 69
Analysis	p. 70
Sign and Symbol	p. 74
The Act of Symbolization	p. 83
Analysis	p. 83
Sacramental Symbolization	p. 85
Symbol Efficacy	p. 91
The Bread of the Word	p. 91
The Sacraments of the Word	p. 92
Return to Our Original Question	p. 95
The Language of Rite	p. 97
An Original Language Game	p. 97
Some Laws of Ritual Language	p. 99
An Action-Language	p. 99
A Symbolic Language	p. 101
A Language That Breaks Away from Ordinary Language	p. 103
A Programmed, Therefore Repeatable Language	p. 106
A Language That Assigns Positions	p. 110
Evangelizing the Rite	p. 111
Theological Summary	p. 113
Functioning of the Structure: Symbolic Exchange
Symbolic Exchange	p. 117
Anthropological Stakes	p. 117
Theological Pertinence	p. 123
Symbolic Exchange Between Humanity and God: The Eucharistic Prayer	p. 129
Narrative Analysis	p. 129
The Status of the Narrative of Institution, the Anamnesis, and the Epiclesis	p. 133
The Story of the Institution	p. 133
The Discourse of Anamnesis	p. 135
The Discourse of Epiclesis	p. 136
The Relation Christ/Church in the Eucharist	p. 138
The Threefold Body of Christ	p. 139
The Lord's Supper According to Paul	p. 140
The Rites of Communion	p. 141
Symbolic Exchange in the Eucharistic Prayer	p. 143
The Eucharistic Process	p. 143
Widening of the Perspective	p. 145
Function of the Moment Sacrament	p. 146
Christian Identity and Jewish Identity	p. 147
One Process of Identity	p. 148
A Different Treatment	p. 151
Sacramental Mystery and Trinitarian Mystery
The Sacraments of Christ's Passover in the Spirit	p. 155
Classical Sacramental Theology's Point of Departure: The Incarnation	p. 155
Our Point of Departure: The Paschal Mystery of Christ	p. 156
The Ancient Tradition	p. 156
A Paschal Mystery Demanding to Be Understood in Its Whole Extent	p. 159
Consequences of This Point of Departure	p. 160
Sacramental Discourse and Christological Discourse	p. 161
My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?	p. 161
The Son and the Father	p. 162
The Sacraments	p. 164
Sacramental Discourse and Pneumatological Discourse	p. 164
The Paradoxes of the Spirit	p. 165
Pastoral Applications
Managing the Request for Rites of Passage	p. 173
The Celebration of the Four Seasons of Life	p. 173
In Contemporary Catholicism	p. 174
Requests for Sacramental Rites of Passage and Content of Beliefs	p. 174
Psycho-Social Clarifications	p. 176
The Pastoral Interview	p. 184
Communication as Interaction and Decoding	p. 185
From the Start, a Situation Fraught with Pitfalls	p. 187
Landmarks for the Pastoral Interview	p. 192
Conclusion	p. 199
Index	p. 201
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