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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Sacramental Way of Life | |
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| A Sacramental Universe | |
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| Interpretative Elements of Christian Sacramentality | |
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| Symbols, Sacraments, and Mystery | |
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| The Development of Christian Sacramentality | |
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| Signs of Christ for the Journey | |
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| Sacraments of Christian Freedom | |
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| The Seven Sacraments of Christendom | |
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| The Reformation and Sacramental Practice | |
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| Vatican II and Beyond | |
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| Basic Dimensions of Christian Sacramentality | |
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| The Origin of the Sacraments | |
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| Sacramental Principles | |
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| Significance and Symbolic Meaning of Sacrament | |
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| Seven Sacraments: An Organic View | |
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| Sacramental Structures of Life | |
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| An Organic World View | |
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| Sacraments as Encounters of Freedom and Grace | |
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| Signs of Faith | |
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| Signs of Salvation | |
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| Signs of Eternal Life | |
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| Sacramental Mystery and Christian Spirituality | |
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| The Sacramental Dimension of All Life | |
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| Sacraments and Spirituality | |
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| The Essential Characteristics of Sacramental Spirituality | |
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| The Initiation and Foundational Church | |
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| Baptism: Rebirth in the Christ-Event | |
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| The Foundational Charter | |
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| Biblical Foundations | |
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| Theological and Spiritual Foundations | |
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| Christian Initiation: Revitalizing the Tradition | |
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| Origins (Until the Third Century) | |
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| Patristic Splendor (Third through Fifth Centuries) | |
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| Medieval Fragmentation (Fifth Century to Modern Times) | |
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| Sacramental Initiation: Current Interpretation and Retrieval | |
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| Baptismal Core Beliefs | |
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| Principles and Structures of Initiation | |
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| Confirmation: Communion in the Holy Spirit | |
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| A Mystagogical Vision | |
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| Biblical and Historical Origins | |
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| The Theology of Confirmation: Reform and Its Future | |
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| Eucharist: Center of Christian Existence | |
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| The Sacrament of the Reign of God | |
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| Christological Origins: Pasch, Reign, and Praxis | |
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| Christocentric Spirituality: From Baptism to Eucharist | |
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| The Sacrament of the Life of the Church | |
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| Key Foundational Images: From the New Testament to the Hellenistic World | |
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| Patristic Mystery: The Greco-Roman and Byzantine Church | |
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| The Roman Catholic Sacrament: Medieval and Modern | |
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| The Sacrament of the Transformation of the World | |
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| Sacramentality: Baptismal Foundations | |
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| Eschatology: The Risen Christ and the Eucharistic Universe | |
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| Real Presence: Theological Shifts | |
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| The "Cosmic Christ": Body of Christ and Cosmic Transformation | |
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| The Healing Church | |
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| Reconciliation: The Sign of Conversion | |
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| The Mystery of Reconciliation | |
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| Jesus, the Compassion of God | |
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| The Church, Servant of Reconciliation | |
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| Conversion, the Cutting Edge of Reconciliation | |
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| The Lessons of History | |
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| The Shift to Public Ecclesial Reconciliation: The Canonical Penance (Third to Seventh Centuries) | |
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| The Shift to Repeatable and Individualized Confession: The Tariff Penance (Seventh to Thirteenth Centuries) | |
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| The Emphasis on Confession of Sins and Priestly Absolution (Trent to Vatican II) | |
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| The Reform and Its Future | |
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| Sin and Reconciliation | |
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| Celebrating Reconciliation | |
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| Perspectives for Renewal | |
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| Anointing: Christian Wholeness | |
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| The Healing Ministry of Christ | |
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| The Tradition of Anointing and Healing | |
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| Illness and Christian Healing | |
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| Anointing for Divine Glory | |
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| The Church at the Service of Communion | |
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| Orders and Ministries: The Priest as Servant-Leader | |
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| Models of Ministry: Historical Shifts | |
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| The Fundamental Priesthood of the Church | |
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| The Sacramental Foundations of Ministry | |
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| Ministry: Building Up the Church | |
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| Marriage: The Call to the Gift of Self | |
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| Revitalizing the Tradition | |
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| First Millennium: Secular Marriage and Sacramental Mystery | |
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| Second Millennium: Ecclesiastical Marriage and Sacramental Contract | |
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| A New Theological Interpretation: Five Models | |
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| Worship: A Clue to the Theology of Marriage | |
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| Models of Marriage | |
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| Sacrament of Love and Marital Breakdown | |
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| A Grand Feast of Life and Love | |
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| Reconsidering Divorce and Remarriage | |
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| Conclusion: The Signs of Christian Freedom | |
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| Signs of the Prophetic Mission of the Church | |
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| Signs That Speak of Christian Freedom | |
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| Signs of the Liberating Presence of the Risen Lord | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |