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Christ and the Altar Fire - David Augustine

Christ and the Altar Fire

Sacrifice As Deification in Matthias Scheeben

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Buch | Hardcover
406 Seiten
2025
Emmaus Academic (Verlag)
978-1-64585-437-1 (ISBN)
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An incisive study of 19th-century theology explores liturgical sacrifice as a ritual steeped in divine fire and transformative grace. It carefully deciphers symbolic acts—mirroring the mystery of Christ’s death, resurrection, and ascension—and reveals how these sacred rites forge a pathway toward the union of human intellect and divine glory.
For renowned nineteenth-century German dogmatic theologian Matthias Scheeben, the divinely instituted liturgical cult of the Old Testament is replete with soteriological import, figuratively signifying not only Christ's saving work and the sacramental worship of the New Testament, but also the transformation and elevation of the rational creature by divine grace. Scheeben's distinctive use of sacrificial concepts is rooted in his underlying view of sacrifice as primarily perfective—directed to the glorification of God and constituted by the conversion of the offering into a pleasing and acceptable aroma via ritual burning with God-given fire. In Christ and the Altar Fire, David Augustine offers an in-depth study of Scheeben's soteriology of sacrifice, providing a comprehensive analysis of his theology of sacrifice as well as a detailed examination of his sacrificial construal of Christ's person, his saving work, and its application to others. At the heart of this account is Scheeben's understanding of Christ's sacrifice as encompassing his entire paschal mystery—passion, death, resurrection, and ascension—itself a passage of glorification that serves as the site and source of deifying and latreutic nuptial union. As he shows, Scheeben employs the altar fire typology to establish a unity of cross and glory that fully maintains the atoning and meritorious significance of Christ's saving death. Displaying careful attentiveness to Scheeben's historical context and to the contours of his substantial corpus, Augustine also brings Scheeben's biblically inflected dogmatic theology into dialogue with contemporary biblical and theological scholarship, showcasing the enduring relevance of his thought.

David Augustine (PhD, Catholic University of America) is associate editor of Word on Fire Academic and managing editor of The New Ressourcement. He is the author of numerous articles, the editor of a volume on the early Church Fathers, and the translator of Erich Przywara's Kant Today: A Survey.

Foreword by Trent Pomplun
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Sacrifice in Scheeben
Chapter 1: Sacrifice and the Altar Fire
Chapter 2: The Priest as Consecrator
Chapter 3: Sacrifices as Signs and Types
Chapter 4: The Nuptial Fire
Part 2: Christ's Paschal Mystery
Chapter 5: Christ the Priest
Chapter 6: Christ's Merit, Mediation, and Offices
Chapter 7:The Motives of the Incarnation and Sacrifice
Chapter 8: The Grammar of Christ's Redemptive Deed
Chapter 9: Cross, Holocaust, and Yom Kippur
Chapter 10: Yom Kippur and Temple Motifs
Chapter 11: The Life-Giving Stream
Conclusion
Appendix: The Question of Christ's Substantial Sanctification
Bibliography
Scripture Index
Person and Subject Index

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Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 672 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10 1-64585-437-X / 164585437X
ISBN-13 978-1-64585-437-1 / 9781645854371
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