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Scandal of Sacramentality [electronic resource] : The Eucharist in Literary and Theological Perspectives.

By: Publication details: Cambridge : James Clarke & Co, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (225 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780227902646
  • 0227902645
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 234.163 22
LOC classification:
  • BX2215.3
Online resources:
Contents:
Front cover; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by Ann Loades; Foreword by David Jasper; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: The Scandal of Sacramentality; 1. Skandalon: Stumbling over Sacrament; 2. ""The Word . . ."": The Problem of Language; 3. "". . . Made Flesh"": The Problem of the Body; Part Two: Literary and Theological Perspectives; 4. Fracturing: Brokenness and Sacrament; 5. Consuming: Cannibalism and Sacrament; 6. Penetrating: Eroticism and Sacrament; Conclusion: In-Conclusion; Bibliography; Back cover
Summary: In this new book, Brannon Hancock explores the theme of the ""scandalous"" sacrament in the context of our current Western culture which some would describe as ""post-Christian"", and in the light of the Christian churches who hold sacramental life as central to their faith.In the texts addressed by Hancock we return to the body in all its messy complexity, and therefore to the mystery which lies at the very heart of the sacramental incarnation, the Word made Flesh.
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Front cover; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by Ann Loades; Foreword by David Jasper; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: The Scandal of Sacramentality; 1. Skandalon: Stumbling over Sacrament; 2. ""The Word . . ."": The Problem of Language; 3. "". . . Made Flesh"": The Problem of the Body; Part Two: Literary and Theological Perspectives; 4. Fracturing: Brokenness and Sacrament; 5. Consuming: Cannibalism and Sacrament; 6. Penetrating: Eroticism and Sacrament; Conclusion: In-Conclusion; Bibliography; Back cover

In this new book, Brannon Hancock explores the theme of the ""scandalous"" sacrament in the context of our current Western culture which some would describe as ""post-Christian"", and in the light of the Christian churches who hold sacramental life as central to their faith.In the texts addressed by Hancock we return to the body in all its messy complexity, and therefore to the mystery which lies at the very heart of the sacramental incarnation, the Word made Flesh.

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