Sacramental Theology

By Herbert Vorgrimler

Book Overview

Both resistance to and renewed interest in the sacraments mark current theological thought. This work acknowledges human limitations of the sacraments but stresses that God's relationship to human beings cannot be other than "sacramental." Sacramental structures and events constitute salvation history, and thus permeate all theology. What makes this sacramental view comprehensible is faith; faith is an indispensable precondition for a sacramental theology. Therefore the author first demonstrates the preconditions of faith on which sacramental theology rests, and what place it holds within the whole of theology. Following this, he briefly presents the concept of sacraments and the history of that concept, the teachings of Church tradition on sacraments in general, and the basic features of a sacramental theology. Next he explains from a theological perspective the traditional sacraments of the Catholic Church, including related topics such as indulgences and sacramentals.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814619940
• ISBN13: 9780814619940
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Liturgical Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Sacramental Theology from another point of view.

Herbert Vorgrimler has written a very clear, scholarly study of the Sacraments. Most Roman Catholics, Anglicans, and Eastern Orthodox Christians accept that there are seven (7) sacraments. Vorgrimler broadens the sacramental base to include the Creation as a sacrament; Jesus, the Christ is a sacrament as is "The Body of Christ" - the Church. After reading this book I selected it as the basic text book for a course in Sacramental Theology at The Episcopal School for Ministry in the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri. Vorgrimler expands the discussion of the sacraments but seems to limit the sacramental scene to the Roman Catholic Church. Roderic D. Wiltse, Priest of the Episcopal Church Diocese of Missouri, based in St. Louis, Missouri.