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Subject(s)

• Lord's Supper—Anglican Communion [Browse]
• Christian sociology—Anglican Communion [Browse]

Series

Jeannie Willis Memorial Fund. [More in this series]

Notes

At head of title: Metacosmesis mundi per incarnationem.

Bibliographic references

At head of title: Metacosmesis mundi per incarnationem.

Contents

• I. Some basic philosophical concepts
• The centrality of the sacrament of the altar
• Two opposing views of the material world
• The non-Christian analysis: world as essentially evil
• The Christian analysis: world as essentially good
• The source of evil traced to man
• Christian idea of salvation
• Non-Christian confusion in Christian thinking
• II. The problem of the redemption of the world: First stage
• Problem from the point of view of man: the obstacle of disorder in history
• A practical illustration of the time problem
• A philosophical illustration of the time problem
• Problem from the point of view of God: obstacle of man's free reason
• The incarnation as the solution of both problems
• Method of the incarnation: its individual organism
• Summary: solution of the problems of time and of the conservation of human freedom
• Our lady as the prototype of redeemed and free humanity
• Incarnational definition of redemption
• III. The problem of the redemption of the world: second stage
• The redemption of man carries beyond the natural world
• The limitations of perfection attainable in the natural world
• Redeemed perfection in this world always contingent
• Human salvation requires an absolute perfection
• Mediation of the contingent into the absolute: the two natures of our Lord
• IV. Meditation as sacrifice
• Failure of pre-Christian sacrifices
• Our Lord's sacrifice: full attainment of its end
• The effects of mediating sacrifice
• Contingent perfection as the necessary basis of absolute perfection
• V. Metacosmesis
• Remarkable qualities of our Lord's earthly humanity
• Our Lord's earthly humanity a true humanity
• Source of the remarkable qualities of our Lord's humanity
• Definition of metacosmesis
• Social extension of metacosmesis during our Lord's earthly life
• Social metacosmesis rendered incomplete by human sin
• VI. Metacosmesis after the ascension
• Problem of the continuation of our Lord's social humanity after his individual ascension
• What happened at Pentecost
• Evidence of metacosmesis in the life of the early church
• The means of the Church's access to the metacosmic process
• Our Lord's historical life made eternally accessible
• Historical and eternal aspects of our Lord's life and work
• The eternal Lord incarnate present in his memorial
• The natural bread and wine of our Lord's social humanity
• Natural bread and wine as structures of creative social growth
• Our Lord's memorial as a twofold movement
• Contingencies found in the offered natural bread and wine
• The absolute perfection of the bread and wine in their consecration
• The memorial as a sacrifice
• Completion of the cycle of metacosmesis in the holy communion
• VII. The liturgy of the memorial of our Lord's body and blood
• Its threefold structure
• The offertory
• Misconception concerning the offertory
• The offertory and the immaculate conception of our Lord's mother
• The offertory and the baptized community
• The offertory and symbolic liturgical emphasis
• The consecration: thanksgiving and remembrance
• The meaning of thanksgiving
• The meaning of remembrance
• Consecration as sacrifice
• Priest and victim within the consecration
• Representative character of the church's ministers
• The holy communion
• Our Lord's memorial as the heart of his social humanity
• VIII. The liturgy and the atonement
• Sins and contingencies
• Defects within the offertory: penance and absolution
• Contingencies: their classification and the conditions for their consecration
• The contingencies of the first group
• The attempted reduction of these contingencies by severing relationships with the world
• The incarnational method of dealing with contingencies
• Conditions for the application of the atonement to contingencies of the first group
• Scientific economic understanding a modern development
• The possession of a material basis for rational social planning also a modern phenomenon
• Present meaning of reconciliation with out brother
• Contingencies of the second group
• Contingencies of the third group
• IX. Character of the secular order now demanded by the liturgy
• No answer in Christian dogma
• a problem for enlightened human reason
• Possibility and means of agreement among Christian upon secular problems
• Some practical considerations
• Problem of secular violence: relation of means and ends
• Evolution and revolution in social change
• Present social revolution moving in a Christian direction
• Christian offertory rooted in the world's material arrangement
• X. Material basis of metacosmesis
• The material basis of spiritual relationships in the offertory
• Dangers of parallelism in thinking of spiritual and material things
• The material basis of the consecration
• Metacosmic cycle borne upon a movement within the material level
• Urgency of the memorial
• XI. Characteristics of a sacramental metacosmic humanity
• The apostolic church
• The church in later ages
• The natural and the supernatural virtues
• The tension between personal freedom and corporate social allegiance
• Human resolutions of this tension always sought in compromise
• Full resolution found in the incarnation
• Sources of defects in the metacosmic humanity of the contemporary church
• XII. A metacosmic world order
• A redeemed social order must be sacramental
• The medieval vision and the source of its practical failure
• Contributions of Karl Marx to scientific social understanding
• Function of the political state
• Marx's view of the foundation of religion
• The Marxian social objective: "withering away" of the political state and the disappearance of religion
• The Marxian view of the disappearance of religion
• The necessary Christian witness
• A Christian analogue of the Marxian error
• Agreement of Christians and Marxists upon immediate goals
• A brief recapitulation
• The withering away of the state and the establishment of the church
• The church's offertory in a socialist order: the Christian duty to work for this end.

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47003507

OCLC

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