Sacrifice Unveiled The True Meaning of Christian Sacrifice

by Daly, Robert J.

• ISBN13: 9780567034212
• ISBN10: 0567034216
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-06-13
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T & T Clark

Summary

Offers a new understaning of sacrifice as a response to love and an entering into the self-giving life of God

Author Biography

Robert J. Daly SJ is Emeritus Professor of Theology at Boston College, USA.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xiii
To Unveil Sacrifice	p. 1
The Many Meanings of Sacrifice	p. 1
Secular meaning	p. 1
General religious meaning	p. 2
Sacrifice in the Hebrew scriptures	p. 2
General Christian meaning	p. 3
Specifically Catholic understanding	p. 4
Authentic Christian sacrifice	p. 5
A Trinitarian View of Sacrifice	p. 6
The self-offering of the Father	p. 10
The self-offering 'response' of the Son	p. 11
The self-offering of believers	p. 14
The Sacrifice of the Mass	p. 14
Who is doing what?	p. 15
Who is saying what?	p. 16
What is taking place?	p. 18
Conclusion	p. 23
The Origins and Early Development of the Idea of Christian Sacrifice	p. 25
Sacrifice in the Ancient World and in the Hebrew Scriptures	p. 26
Sacrifice in the Ancient World	p. 26
General Theory of Sacrifice	p. 27
Sacrifice in the Hebrew Scriptures	p. 29
The problem and the method	p. 30
The Sources of the Pentateuch and Source Criticism of the Hebrew Bible	p. 30
The burnt offering and the divine acceptance of sacrifice	p. 32
The divine acceptance of sacrifice	p. 32
The Prophetic Critique of Sacrifice	p. 33
Sin offering and atonement	p. 35
The process of atonement	p. 36
The sin offering	p. 37
Sacrificial blood	p. 37
Leviticus 17.11 and the significance of sacrificial blood	p. 38
Passover	p. 39
Vicarious suffering and death	p. 39
Martyrdom	p. 40
From the Old Testament to the New	p. 40
The Septuagint	p. 41
Covenant sacrifice	p. 41
The passover	p. 42
The blood of circumcision	p. 43
Qumran: The community as temple	p. 45
The Akedah (sacrifice of Isaac)	p. 46
Clear references to the Akedah in the New Testament	p. 48
Probable references to the Akedah in the New Testament	p. 48
Possible references to the Akedah in the New Testament	p. 49
The Akedah: A full expression of Jewish sacrificial soteriology	p. 49
Conclusion	p. 50
Sacrifice in the New Testament	p. 51
The Synoptic Gospels	p. 52
The Acts of the Apostles	p. 54
The Pauline Theology of Sacrifice	p. 54
The sacrifice of Christ	p. 55
Christians as the new temple	p. 56
Sacrifice of (i.e. by) the Christians	p. 57
The Temple as Community in Qumran and the New Testament	p. 59
The Epistle to the Hebrews	p. 60
The sacrifice of Christ the high priest	p. 61
The sacrifice of/by the Christian	p. 62
The Gospel and First Letter of John	p. 64
Temple themes	p. 64
Sacrificial self-giving	p. 65
Sin offering and atonement themes	p. 65
The History-of-Religions Context of 'Worship in Spirit and in Truth'	p. 66
The Book of Revelation	p. 66
The throne of God	p. 67
The lamb	p. 67
The incense offering	p. 68
Summary of New Testament Teaching on Christian Sacrifice	p. 68
Spiritualization and Institutionalization	p. 69
Spiritualization in the early Church	p. 70
Institutionalization in the early Church	p. 73
Sacrifice in the Fathers of the Church	p. 75
The Early Writings	p. 75
The Apologists: Justin and Athenagoras	p. 77
Irenaeus of Lyons	p. 79
Hippolytus of Rome	p. 81
The Early Treatises on the Passover	p. 82
The Second-Century Acts of the Martyrs	p. 84
The Alexandrian Tradition I: The Antecedents: Philo and Barnabas	p. 85
Philo of Alexandria	p. 85
Epistle of Barnabas	p. 87
The Alexandrian Tradition II: Christianity Coming of Age: Clement and Origen	p. 88
Clement of Alexandria	p. 89
Origen: Christian life as sacrifice	p. 93
Augustine of Hippo	p. 95
Sacrifice of Christ	p. 95
Temple themes	p. 96
Sacrifice by Christians	p. 96
Conclusion	p. 97
Conclusion	p. 98
Atonement and Sacrifice: The Distorting Veils	p. 99
Paul and Problems with Sacrificial Atonement	p. 99
Problems	p. 99
Incarnation and atonement theories	p. 100
Metaphor and doctrine	p. 102
Trinitarian Theology	p. 102
Divine violence	p. 104
Sacrifice and cult	p. 106
Legal and judicial thinking	p. 107
Provisional conclusions	p. 108
Anselm, Abelard, Aquinas, and Julian of Norwich	p. 110
Anselm of Canterbury (ca. 1033-1109)	p. 110
Peter Abelard (1079-1142/3)	p. 113
Thomas Aquinas (ca. 1225-74)	p. 114
Julian of Norwich (ca. 1342-after 1416)	p. 116
The Sacrifice of the Mass	p. 118
ICEL's EP I translation/adaptation of the Canon Missae	p. 119
The third anaphora of St. Peter (Sharar)	p. 125
Commentary on Sharar	p. 129
Sharar and the Maronite Rite	p. 132
Conclusion of commentary on Sharar	p. 134
The prayers of Sarapion	p. 135
Provisional summary conclusions, with schematic table	p. 136
Sacrifice and the Reformation	p. 141
Background medieval problems	p. 141
Sacrifice and atonement	p. 141
Loss of contact with the Bible	p. 142
Loss of contact with the tradition	p. 142
Lack of a sense of the 'Shape of the Liturgy'	p. 142
The private Mass	p. 144
Emphasizing the Christological to the detriment of the ecclesiological	p. 144
The limitations of a schoolbook theology	p. 144
Catholic abuses	p. 146
The reaction of the Reformers	p. 147
The Catholic reaction against the Protestant reaction	p. 148
Eucharistic sacrifice and the 'destruction of a victim'	p. 150
Modern average Catholic theology of the Eucharist	p. 151
The sixteenth-century antecedents	p. 158
Theory I	p. 159
Theory II	p. 160
Theory III	p. 161
Theory IV	p. 163
Bellarmine and the 'modern average Catholic theology of the Eucharist'	p. 166
From the Aftermath of the Reformation to the Present	p. 169
Post-Reformation and Modernity: Two Contrasting Poles	p. 169
Sacrifice among the Writers of Late (Post-Enlightenment) Modernity	p. 174
Sacrifice in secular modernity	p. 174
The Christian scene	p. 175
Distorting mirrors	p. 176
Comment on the distortions	p. 179
Moment-of-Consecration Theology	p. 181
Mass-Stipend Theology: Theology in Transition	p. 184
Liturgical Renewal and Ecumenism	p. 189
The Monasteries	p. 191
Mystery Theology	p. 192
Odo Casel and mystery theology	p. 194
Liturgical Conferences, Institutes, Academies, and Societies	p. 196
A High Point of Restorationism: The New Worship Books	p. 198
The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy of Vatican II	p. 199
Liturgical Work in an Ecumenical Context	p. 200
Sacrifice and Girardian Mimetic Theory: The End of Sacrifice?	p. 202
General Introduction to Girardian Mimetic Theory	p. 202
Grand Narratives in a Postmodern Age	p. 206
Desire	p. 207
Original Sin as Disordered Desire	p. 209
Original Sin: A Scientific View	p. 213
Rene Girard as Christian Theorist	p. 217
A Phenomenology of Redemption: Imitate the Desire of Jesus	p. 219
A Post-Scientific Epilogue	p. 221
Unveiling Sacrifice: A Journey of Discovery	p. 223
Beginnings	p. 223
Early Work on Christian Sacrifice	p. 225
Christian Sacrifice: Liturgical and Phenomenological	p. 227
The Trinitarian Insight	p. 228
The Final Turning	p. 230
The Journey Ahead	p. 232
Biblical Index	p. 239
Subject Index	p. 241
Index of Names	p. 257
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