T&T Clark Handbook of Sacraments and Sacramentality

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Introducing readers to the contemporary field of sacramental theology, this volume covers the biblical and historical foundations, a survey of the state of the discipline, and a collection of constructive essays representing major themes, practices and approaches to sacraments and sacramentality in the contemporary world.
The volume starts with a set of foundational essays that offer broad introduction to the field of sacramental theology from contemporary scholars, analysing a number of historical figures in order to illumine and inform contemporary sacramental theology.
The second part of the volume is dedicated to a series of essays on sacramentality, and includes attention to elements of space, time, ritual action, music, and word, all as aspects of what Christians have termed “sacramental” reality.
The third set of essays includes attention to each of the seven practices that have most commonly been termed “sacraments” in Christian traditions: baptism; eucharist/Lord’s Supper; confirmation; confession, forgiveness and reconciliation; marriage; ordination; and anointing.
The final part of this volume features scholars who are working on sacraments in conversation with contemporary academic disciplines: critical race theory, queer theory, comparative theology, and disability studies.

Martha Moore-Keish is J.B. Green Associate Professor of Theology, at Columbia Theological Seminary, USA.
James Farwell is Professor of Theology and Liturgy, at Virginia Theological Seminary, USA.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: James Farwell (Virginia Theological Seminary, USA) and Martha Moore-Keish (Columbia Theological Seminary, USA)
Part 1: Foundations 1. Ritual and Sacrament as Bodily Practice: Frank C. Senn (Evangelical Lutheran Church, USA)
2. The Bible and the Christian Sacraments: Gordon W. Lathrop (Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, USA)
3. The Sacraments through History: Karen Westerfield Tucker (Boston University School of Theology, USA)
4. Sacramentality as contemporary theological context: The web of sacraments, liturgical theology and sacramentality today: Lizette Larson-Miller (Huron University College, London, Ontario, Canada)
Part 2: Constructive Essays Section A: Sacramentality5. The Future of the Past: Thoughts on the Sacramentality of Time: J. Neil Alexander (University of the South, USA)
6. Locating God: The significance of space for sacramental theology: James T. Hadley (Holy Cross Anglican Church, Palermo, Italy)
7. Elemental Signs of the Sacramental: Sacramentality, Visual Arts, and the Earth: Jyoti Sahi (Artist, India)
8. Sacramentality and Music: Dorothea Haspelmath-Finatti (University of Vienna, Austria)
9. The Sacramentality of the Word and the Holiness of Preaching: Lisa M. Weaver (Columbia Theological Seminary, USA)
10. Gathered Church Sacramentality: Loss and Recovery: Philip E. Thompson (North American Baptist Seminary, USA)
Section B: Particular sacramentsChristian Initiation11. Christian Initiation: Ruth A. Meyers (Church Divinity School of the Pacific, USA)
12. One Baptism, Many Churches: Joyce Ann Zimmermann, CPPS (Institute for Liturgical Ministry, USA)
13. White, Wet Devils: Baptism, Race, and the Struggle for Baptismal Solidarity: Andrew Wymer (Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary, USA)
Eucharist/Lord’s Supper14. Ecumenism and Roman Catholic Eucharist: Timothy Brunk (Villanova University, USA)
15. Healing Eucharist: Excavating the Table’s Delusion and Redemption in White Dominant Church: Marcia W. Mount Shoop 16. Blessed are Those Who Hunger and Thirst for Justice: Overlapping and Indecenting Eucharistic Desire, Now and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: Ángel F. Méndez Montoya (Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City, Mexico)
17. The Sacrament of Reconciliation: Julia Gatta (University of the South, USA)
Marriage18. The Sacramentality of Marriage in the Western Church: An Overview: Kimberly Bracken Long (Columbia Theological Seminary, USA)
19. Taking Lessons from the Liturgy: The Reception of the Second Vatican Council in the Rites of Marriage: Jaya Therese Vasupurathurathukan, CHF20. Sacramentality in anointing of the sick: Bruce T. Morrill (Vanderbilt University, USA)
21. Footwashing as a Christian liturgy: A challenge to question what we mean by ‘sacrament’: Thomas O’Loughlin (University of Nottingham, UK)
22. The Ecosacramentality of the Funeral: Benjamin Stewart (Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, USA)
23. The Sacramentality of Orders: The contribution of sacramental theology to the pressing ecumenical question of the recognition of each other’s ministry: James F. Puglisi, SA (Franciscan Friars of the Atonement, USA)
Section C: Themes 24. Sacraments in a Post-Christian society: Joris Geldhof (KU Leuven, Belgium)
25. Sacraments and Sacramentality: Toward a Postcolonial Pluriverse with a Decolonial Thrust: Kristine Suna-Koro (Xavier University, USA)
26. Gender, Sacraments and Sacramentality: Susan A. Ross (Loyola University Chicago, USA)
27. Sacraments and Queer Theory: W. Scott Haldeman (Chicago Theological Seminary, USA)
28. Sacramentality and Comparative Theology: Rethinking Transcendence in Immanence: Sebastian Madathummuriyil (Duquesne University, USA)
29. Radical and Sacramental: A Theology for Sacraments in an Age of Pluralism: Glenn P. Ambrose (University of the Incarnate Word, USA)
30. Disability, Human Difference, and the Sacramentality of Access: Rebecca F. Spurrier (Columbia Theological Seminary, USA)
31. Sacraments in Migration and Migration in Sacraments: Peter C. Phan (Georgetown University, USA)
32. Science and Sacraments: E. Byron Anderson (Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, USA)
33. Sacramental Theology and Worship Technology in the Wake of a Pandemic: James Farwell (Virginia Theological Seminary, USA) and Martha Moore-Keish (Columbia Theological Seminary, USA)
34. Sacraments, Sacramentality and Integral Ecology in Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’: Kevin W. Irwin (Catholic University of America, USA)
35. Sacraments and Creation: Ecology-A Conversation with First Peoples: Carmel Pilcher (Pacific Regional Seminary, Flinders University, Australia) and Donato Kivi (Marist College, Suva, Fiji)
36. Sacraments and the Earth: The Poor, The Clouds and The Extinction of Animals: Cláudio Carvalhaes (Union Theological Seminary, USA)
37. The Sacraments and Mission: The Unfolding Purpose of God for the World: Thomas Schattauer (Wartburg Seminary, USA)
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