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Aquinas's Summa Theologiae and Eucharistic Sacrifice in the Early Modern Period (Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology) by REGINALD M. LYNCH & O.P. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book is focused on the reception history of Thomas Aquinas' account of Eucharistic sacrifice during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Although the sacrificial character of the Eucharist has been of interest to theologians throughout the Church's history, during the early sixteenth century renewed attention was given to this subject, in part because of disputes that arose between Reformed and Catholic theologians about the relationship between the Eucharistic liturgy and Christ's sacrifice on the cross. Does the Eucharistic presence itself have a sacrificial quality? Can aspects of the liturgy or dimensions of the moral life be considered a sacrifice, and if so in what way? The emergence of these and other new questions in Eucharistic theology at the beginning of the sixteenth century coincided with a shift within the practice of theology in universities that began to emphasize Aquinas' Summa theologiae as the standard text of theological instruction, in place of Peter Lombard's Sentences . Because of the Summa's relatively late ascendency as a text of commentary and instruction, studying the Summa's reception history involves the interpreter in a co

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Author
REGINALD M. LYNCH & O.P.
Publisher
IRL Press at Oxford University Press
Published
2024
Language
EN
ISBN
9780192874788
Category
nonfiction

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