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The Sacraments - The Word of God at the Mercy of the Body by Louis Marie Chauvet
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Chauvet writes from a postmodern perspective and delves particularly deeply into the role of language as a mediating influence between an external world and the internal perception of that world. He writes compellingly about the effect of language on and in sacramental ritual, and posits that the sacraments are a gift from God in which the reception of the gift requires a response, mainly action to live a life embodying love and justice (rather than the sacraments being events in which one simply receives, with no response required).

Sacramental theology is not my favorite subject, but Chauvet is my favorite writer about it.
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January 31, 2009 – Shelved
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May 19, 2009 – Finished Reading
May 8, 2010 – Shelved as: religious-studies

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