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| Introduction | |
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| Theology | |
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| The Basic Pastoral Question | |
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| The Basic Theological Question | |
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| Overture: Three Theoretical Models | |
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| Objectivist Model | |
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| Subjectivist Model | |
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| The Vatican II Model | |
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| Structure: The Symbolic Order: The Sacraments: One Element of Christian Existence | |
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| The Human Subject in Language and Culture | |
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| Language as Instrument | |
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| Language as Mediation | |
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| The Symbolic Order | |
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| The Christian Subject in the Language and Culture of the Church | |
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| The Structure of Christian Identity | |
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| Three Key Texts | |
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| Chapter 24 of the Gospel of Luke | |
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| The Story of the Disciples of Emmaus | |
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| The Mediation of the Church | |
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| Scriptures/Sacraments/Ethics | |
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| The Priority of the Ecclesial "We" | |
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| The Celebrating Assembly | |
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| Pastoral Consequences | |
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| Faith or the Assent to a Loss | |
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| The Temptation of Immediacy | |
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| Maintaining a Distance | |
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| Relations between the Elements of the Structure | |
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| Relations between the Scriptures and Sacrament | |
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| The Scriptures, Sacrament of God's Word | |
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| The Sacrament, "Precipitate" of the Scriptures | |
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| Evangelization and Sacraments | |
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| Relations between Sacraments and Ethics | |
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| Jewish Worship | |
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| Jesus and Jewish Worship | |
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| The Status of Christian Worship | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| One Element of the Structure: The Sacraments as Ritual Symbols | |
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| Symbol | |
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| What Is Meant by Symbol | |
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| Some Examples | |
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| Analysis | |
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| Sign and Symbol | |
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| The Act of Symbolization | |
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| Analysis | |
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| Sacramental Symbolization | |
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| Symbol Efficacy | |
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| The Bread of the Word | |
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| The Sacraments of the Word | |
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| Return to Our Original Question | |
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| The Language of Rite | |
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| An Original Language Game | |
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| Some Laws of Ritual Language | |
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| An Action-Language | |
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| A Symbolic Language | |
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| A Language That Breaks Away from Ordinary Language | |
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| A Programmed, Therefore Repeatable Language | |
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| A Language That Assigns Positions | |
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| Evangelizing the Rite | |
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| Theological Summary | |
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| Functioning of the Structure: Symbolic Exchange | |
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| Symbolic Exchange | |
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| Anthropological Stakes | |
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| Theological Pertinence | |
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| Symbolic Exchange Between Humanity and God: The Eucharistic Prayer | |
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| Narrative Analysis | |
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| The Status of the Narrative of Institution, the Anamnesis, and the Epiclesis | |
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| The Story of the Institution | |
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| The Discourse of Anamnesis | |
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| The Discourse of Epiclesis | |
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| The Relation Christ/Church in the Eucharist | |
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| The Threefold Body of Christ | |
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| The Lord's Supper According to Paul | |
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| The Rites of Communion | |
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| Symbolic Exchange in the Eucharistic Prayer | |
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| The Eucharistic Process | |
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| Widening of the Perspective | |
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| Function of the Moment Sacrament | |
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| Christian Identity and Jewish Identity | |
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| One Process of Identity | |
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| A Different Treatment | |
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| Sacramental Mystery and Trinitarian Mystery | |
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| The Sacraments of Christ's Passover in the Spirit | |
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| Classical Sacramental Theology's Point of Departure: The Incarnation | |
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| Our Point of Departure: The Paschal Mystery of Christ | |
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| The Ancient Tradition | |
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| A Paschal Mystery Demanding to Be Understood in Its Whole Extent | |
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| Consequences of This Point of Departure | |
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| Sacramental Discourse and Christological Discourse | |
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| My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me? | |
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| The Son and the Father | |
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| The Sacraments | |
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| Sacramental Discourse and Pneumatological Discourse | |
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| The Paradoxes of the Spirit | |
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| Pastoral Applications | |
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| Managing the Request for Rites of Passage | |
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| The Celebration of the Four Seasons of Life | |
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| In Contemporary Catholicism | |
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| Requests for Sacramental Rites of Passage and Content of Beliefs | |
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| Psycho-Social Clarifications | |
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| The Pastoral Interview | |
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| Communication as Interaction and Decoding | |
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| From the Start, a Situation Fraught with Pitfalls | |
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| Landmarks for the Pastoral Interview | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Index | |