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Call of the Holy Heidegger - Chauvet - Benedict XVI

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T&T Clark Studies in Fundamental Liturgy

Call of the Holy

Heidegger - Chauvet - Benedict XVI

Hal St John Broadbent

Religion / Christian Theology / Systematic

This title provides an enquiry into the sacramental theology of Chauvet, Heidegger and Benedict XVI. Chauvet is the voice of contemporary Catholic sacramental theology. His ideas are assimilated by students of theology (particularly, the liturgy) throughout the French and English speaking world more or less without critical appraisal. This is because his major work Symbole et Sacrement is interdisciplinary, moving from a scholastic theological view of sacraments, through a philosophical enquiry both into Heidegger's thought and into theorists of language, to a consideration of anthropology and the monographs of ethnographers. Few readers of Chauvet are equipped with the inter-disciplinary resources to question his theological conclusions. The Call of the Holy revisits Chauvet's sources, with special emphasis on Heidegger's philosophical writings. It uncovers serious omissions in Chauvet's appropriation of Heidegger's thought. These omissions destabilise Chauvet's theological positions and have far-reaching implications, given the influence of Chauvet's thought, for contemporary Catholic sacramental theology. T&T Clark Studies in Fundamental Liturgy offer leading scholarship from all disciplines related to liturgical study. The books in the series seek to reintegrate biblical, patristic, historical, dogmatic and philosophical questions with liturgical study in ways faithful and sympathetic to classical liturgical enquiry. Volumes in the series include monographs, translations of recent texts and edited collections around very specific themes. The series is edited by Susan Frank Parsons and Laurence Paul Hemming of the Society of St. Catherine of Siena.

Hal St John Broadbent completed his PhD at Heythrop College, University of London. He has published in Studies in Christian Ethics and focusses currently on Martin Heidegger.


Publication Date: 13 March 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Imprint: T&T Clark
ISBN-13: 9780567205148
Format: Paperback softback
Page Count: 240
Weight (oz): 11.84

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