Sacrament The Language of God's Giving

by Power, David N.

• ISBN13: 9780824517984
• ISBN10: 0824517989
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-06-01
• Publisher: Herder & Herder

Summary

This bold and refreshing book examines the ritual of sacrament in the Church, looking specifically at the role of language.

Author Biography

David N. Power, O.M.I. is Shakespeare Caldwell-Duval Professor of Theology at The Catholic University of America.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Introduction	1	(324)
Historical Reconstruction	2	(2)
Contemporary Issues	4	(1)
Hermenutics	5	(7)
Post [-] Modern	12	(2)
The Hiatus of a Hyphen	14	(3)
By Way of a Table of Contents	17	(4)
Part One SACRAMENTAL TRADITIONS IN TRANSITION
Tradition and Change	21	(30)
Renewal within Tradition	21	(6)
Roman Instruction on Inculturation of the Liturgy within the Roman Rite	21	(2)
Ritualization	23	(2)
An Example: The Handling of Texts	25	(2)
Sociological Critique	27	(2)
Theological Critique	29	(1)
The Post [-] Modern and the Holy	30	(3)
Christianity, the Social, Cultures	33	(4)
Types of Culture	33	(1)
Culture, Communication	34	(1)
Digital Culture	35	(2)
Key Questions	37	(6)
What Makes for Sacrament?	37	(2)
What Makes for Tradition?	39	(1)
What Is to be Hermeneutical?	40	(2)
The Limits of Understanding and Appropriation	42	(1)
Some Guides to Interpretation	43	(7)
Conclusion	50	(1)
Sacrament: Language Event	51	(48)
Sacramental Theories: A Review	51	(8)
Thomas Aquinas	52	(1)
Bonaventure	53	(1)
Reformers	54	(1)
Contemporary Theologies	55	(4)
Language	59	(1)
The Study of Language	60	(14)
Language and Thought	61	(2)
Language and Reality	63	(2)
Language Events	65	(5)
Language and Ethics	70	(1)
The Poetic	71	(2)
Toward Silence	73	(1)
Sacrament: God's Word Events through Spirit	74	(17)
Sacramental Language	74	(2)
Blessing Prayer as Hermeneutical Key	76	(5)
The Inner and Outer Word of Sacrament	81	(1)
The Paschal Event	82	(3)
Sacrament as Gift	85	(1)
The Church Eventing	86	(2)
Naming God	88	(3)
Anammesis/Mimesis	91	(4)
Conclusion	95	(4)
Part Two THE COMPLEXITY OF SACRAMENT AND ITS INTERPRETATION
Community, Sacrament, Interpretation	99	(21)
Baptisnal Liturgies in Two Different Traditions	99	(12)
Armenian Rite	101	(1)
Ritual Action	101	(1)
Scriptures	101	(1)
Euchology and Scripture	102	(1)
Gelasian Liturgy	103	(1)
Ritual Actions	103	(1)
Scripture	104	(2)
Euchology and Scripture	106	(1)
Postscript: Current Rites	107	(2)
Place and the Visual	109	(2)
Interpreting Sacramental Liturgies	111	(6)
Baptismal Catechesis	111	(2)
Sacramental Prayer: Two Interpretations of the Roman Canon	113	(1)
Odo of Cambrai	114	(1)
Martin Luther	115	(1)
Conclusion	116	(1)
Leo the Great as Mystagogue	117	(2)
Conclusion	119	(1)
Ritual Action: The Sacramental Body	120	(29)
Bodily Ritual and Sacramental Renewal	121	(3)
Scholastic Theology	121	(1)
Sacramental Character Revisited	122	(1)
Ecumenical Perspectives	122	(1)
Current Issues	123	(1)
Ritual and Corporate Memory	124	(7)
The Church Writes Itself	125	(1)
Bodily Memory	126	(1)
Bodily Performance	127	(1)
Music and Ritual Memory	127	(2)
Timing and Ritual Participation	129	(1)
Rite and Distanciation	129	(2)
Ritual, Socialization, Community	131	(12)
Ritual and Passage	131	(3)
Social Body, Physical Body, Body of Christ	134	(3)
Ritual and Soci(et)al Differentiation	137	(2)
Rites on the Margin of the Church	139	(1)
Rituals for Christian Marginality	140	(3)
Ritual and Being in Time	143	(4)
Ritual Transformed	144	(2)
Other Rituals	146	(1)
Conclusion	147	(2)
Verbal Polyphony	149	(29)
The Lectionary Use of Scriptural Genres	150	(15)
Lectionary	150	(1)
Genres	151	(1)
Narrative	152	(1)
Institution Narratives	152	(2)
Founding/Foundational Story	154	(2)
Narrative/Foundational Myth	156	(1)
Narrative/Parable	157	(2)
Narrative/Old Testament Stories	159	(1)
Prophecy	160	(2)
Wisdom	162	(1)
Hagiographies	163	(1)
Psalms and Canticles	164	(1)
Prayer Genres	165	(7)
Doxology	167	(2)
Exorcism and Offering	169	(3)
Declarative Formula	172	(1)
Sacramental Imagination	172	(4)
Conclusion: Sacramental Memorial	176	(2)
Seeing Is Believing: The Force of the Visual	178	(31)
The Place of the Visual in Sacramental Action	179	(4)
The Design of Places of Worship	183	(4)
The Placement of Buildings	184	(1)
Interior Design	185	(2)
Interior Art	187	(8)
Historical Perspective: Image and Worship	187	(3)
The Power of Images	190	(5)
Kinds of Representation	195	(2)
The Visual and Appropriation	197	(1)
The Visual and the Post [-] Modern	198	(6)
Nonfigurative Images	200	(3)
Architecture	203	(1)
Inculturated Forms	204	(2)
Conclusion	206	(3)
Part Three RENDERING AN ACCOUNT OF SACRAMENTAL ACTION
Interpreting Doctrinal Formulations	209	(31)
What Is Doctrine?	209	(3)
Doctrines on the Sacraments	212	(2)
Augustine and the Donatists	214	(3)
Medieval Disputes	217	(2)
The Council of Florence	219	(3)
Reformation Controversies and Doctrinal Formulations	222	(10)
Sacraments in General	222	(2)
Eucharist	224	(3)
Penance	227	(1)
Ministry	228	(1)
Hermeneutical Perspectives on These Controversies and Doctrines	229	(1)
Current Roman Catholic/Protestant Dialogue	230	(2)
Hermeneutical Perspectives	232	(5)
Historical Examples	232	(2)
The Ecclesiological Context of Interpretation	234	(1)
The Nature of Doctrinal Propositions	234	(3)
Conclusion: Church and Ministry	237	(3)
Conversion and Critique	240	(34)
Conversion in Crisis	241	(6)
Critique	242	(1)
Semiotics	243	(4)
Language about Body	247	(6)
The Social Location of Women's Bodies	247	(2)
The Abject Body	249	(4)
Socio-Critical Interpretation	253	(11)
Hierarchy	255	(3)
Priesthood and Sacrifice	258	(2)
Reenactment	260	(1)
Historical Continuity	260	(1)
Local Church	261	(1)
Heuristic	262	(1)
Ritualization	263	(1)
Summary of Critique	264	(1)
Conversion/Conversions	264	(9)
Religious	265	(4)
Affective	269	(2)
Ethical	271	(1)
Intellectual	272	(1)
Conclusion	273	(1)
The Event of Gift: Systematic Reflections	274	(37)
An Economy of Gift	276	(6)
Analogy of Being	281	(1)
The Iconic	282	(8)
Iconic Forms	286	(4)
Being in Sacrament	290	(5)
Possibilities and Limits of Self-Presence	294	(1)
Analogies	295	(9)
Event	296	(1)
Covenant/Testimony	297	(2)
Justice	299	(2)
Freedom	301	(2)
Communion	303	(1)
The Liturgical Mystery of the Triune God	304	(6)
Conclusion	310	(1)
Sacramental Catechesis and Praxis	311	(14)
Liturgical Practice	312	(2)
Sacramental Catechesis	314	(10)
Gathering for Worship	314	(2)
Reasons to Assemble	316	(1)
Gift-Bringing	316	(1)
The Place of Sacramental Action	317	(1)
Hearing the Word	318	(2)
Ritual Action	320	(1)
Blessing Prayers	321	(2)
Gifts Given	323	(1)
Mission	324	(1)
Conclusion	324	(1)
Selected Bibliography in English	325	(6)
Index of Proper Names	331	(4)
Index of Subjects	335