Aquinas's Summa Theologiae and Eucharistic Sacrifice in the Early Modern Period
Reginald M. Lynch O.P., "Aquinas's Summa Theologiae and Eucharistic Sacrifice in the Early Modern Period "
English | ISBN: 0192874780 | 2024 | 256 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 0192874780 | 2024 | 256 pages | PDF | 2 MB
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'
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