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Thomas Aquinas & the Liturgy

By David Berger

Book information

Publisher
Sapientia Press
Year
2003
ISBN
0970610688, 9780970610683
Google Books ID
FNd5AAAAMAAJ
Open Library ID
OL8561880M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
6 MB (6250274 bytes)
Pages
133\135
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Over the past century, the liturgy has been a flashpoint of theological interest. Few scholars have examined what St. Thomas has to say about the liturgy. In this concise volume, David Berger, a member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas, approaches this theme in accord with Cardinal Ratzinger's recent call for a "reform of the reform." Drawing together St. Thomas's life and theology, Berger illumines the role in St. Thomas's theology of his youthful training at Monte Cassino and his devotion to the Eucharist. Rightly renowned for his articulation of the doctrine of transubstantiation, St. Thomas deserves also to be regarded as master of liturgics. As Berger shows, St. Thomas provides a supremely incarnational view of the Christian liturgy, in which man, as a body-soul unity, is drawn with the angels into Christ's redemptive sacrifice.

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