A Living Sacrifice: Liturgy and Eschatology in Joseph Ratzinger (Renewal Within Tradition) - Hardcover

Millare, Roland

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1645852032 ISBN 13: 9781645852032

Publisher: Emmaus Academic, 2022

Synopsis

Focuses on the inherent relationship between eschatology and the liturgy in light of Ratzinger's insistence upon the primacy of logos over ethos. When logos is subordinated to ethos, the human person becomes subjected to a materialist ontology that leads to an ethos that is concerned above all by utility and progress, which affects one's approach to understanding the liturgy and eschatology.

How a person celebrates the liturgy becomes subject to the individual whim of one person or a group of people. Eschatology is reduced to addressing the temporal needs of a society guided by a narrow conception of hope or political theology. If the human person wants to understand his authentic sacramental logos, then he must first turn to Christ the incarnate Logos, who reveals to him that he is created for a loving relationship with God and others.

The primacy of logos is the central hermeneutical key to understanding the unique vision of Ratzinger's Christocentric liturgical theology and eschatology. This is coupled with a study of Ratzinger's spiritual Christology with a focus on how it influences his theology of liturgy and eschatology through the notions of participation and communion in Christ's sacrificial love. Finally, A Living Sacrifice examines Ratzinger's theology of hope, charity, and beauty, as well as his understanding of active participation in relationship to the eschatological and cosmic characteristics of the sacred liturgy.

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About the Author

Roland Millare serves as the vice president for curriculum and the program director of Shepherd's Heart (a continuing education and formation program for priests and deacons) for the St. John Paul II Foundation in Houston. He is an adjunct professor of theology for deacon candidates at the University of St. Thomas School of Theology at St. Mary's Seminary in Houston. Dr. Millare earned his doctorate in sacred theology at the Liturgical Institute/University of St. Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Illinois.

Edition details

• Publisher: Emmaus Academic
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1645852032
• ISBN 13: 9781645852032
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336