The Sacraments: An Interdisciplinary and Interactive Study
- ISBN-10
- 0814657079
- ISBN-13
- 9780814657072
- Series
- The Sacraments
- Category
- Religion
- Pages
- 280
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-08-01
- Publisher
- Liturgical Press
- Author
- Joseph Martos
Description
What are the sacraments, really? For centuries, the religious lives of Catholics and other Christians have revolved around church rituals with generally accepted individual and social effects. What, precisely, are those effects, and how are they produced? Traditional theology used Greek philosophy to understand the sacraments and how they work. But is there no other way to understand them? In fact, there are a number of ways, and this book invites you to look at the sacraments through a variety of lenses: psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, theology, morality, and spirituality. As the introduction to this volume challenges, "If you read this book, and especially if you engage in the interactive study to which it invites you, your understanding of sacraments will be changed forever." To help personalize your investigation, the author has created a web site with thought-provoking questions that encourage you to interact with the ideas being proposed in this volume. To engage these topics more deeply, see www.TheSacraments.org.
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