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by: David Berger
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 291
EAN: 9780970610683
ISBN: 0970610688
Label: Sapientia Press
Manufacturer: Sapientia Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 133
Publication Date: 2003-11
Publisher: Sapientia Press
Sales Rank: 794786
Studio: Sapientia Press
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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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Rating: - An invaluable tool for today
Scholarly and straight-shooting, Thomas Aquinas and the Liturgy ably and succinctly demonstrates from the life and teaching of the Angelic Doctor his profound grasp of the nature of the Liturgy--the active, bodily contemplation of Christ's redeeming work and its renewal in our very midst--something which the Church of our day needs urgently to rediscover. This book is an invaluable tool for that crucial task.
Rating: - Common Denominator
St. Thomas of Aquinas, David Berger and Pope Benedict XVI have one thing in common - the love for the Liturgy. In this book the mind of the three can be clearly put side by side and from a bird's eye view one can clearly see the similarity of ideas. It seems that the doctrine of the Eucharist and the Liturgy had not changed at all. One just have to go deeper to explore its uncharted depths.
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