{"product_id":"sacrifice-as-gift-eucharist-grace-and-contemplative-prayer-in-maurice-de-la-taille-9780813220031","title":"Sacrifice as Gift: Eucharist  Grace  and Contemplative Prayer in Maurice de la Taille","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow is the church to understand the Eucharist? Historically  the church has thought in terms of Christs sacrifice that atones or makes satisfaction for our sins. Today  many theologians hold that Christs death is primarily a self-gift  and they de-emphasize atonement or satisfaction. According to Michon M. Matthiesen  the early twentieth-century Jesuit Maurice de la Taille offered a theology that is relevant to this contemporary debate because it accounts for both the sacrifice and gift aspects of the Eucharist. De la Tailles three-volume masterpiece  Mysterium Fidei  published in 1921  generated theological excitement and controversy. Some praised the work as a new theological method that overcame post-Tridentine immolationist Eucharistic theories of sacrifice. Others objected to his view of Trent and were offended by his mystical-theological synthesis.  Sacrifice as Gift retrieves de la Tailles magisterial thought  presenting him as an early nouvelle thologie thinker who recovered patristic and medieval insights that lost prominence after Trent. The volume also demonstrates his role in the liturgical movement in Europe. According to Matthiesen  de la Taille did not claim to offer a \"new theory\" about the sacrifice of the Mass. Rather  he carefully read the tradition  weaving \"the voices of the pages\"from scripture and the Fathers (East and West)  to the scholastics  and the mystics of the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries.  This study captures the remarkably integrated nature of de la Tailles thought on eucharistic sacrifice. Matthiesen argues that de la Tailles theology of eucharistic sacrifice cannot be properly understood apart from his theology of grace and contemplative prayer. Besides providing a new appreciation of the depth of de la Tailles theological contribution  Sacrifice as Gift is a timely presentation of a forgotten vision of eucharistic sacrifice  one that reconfigures the current philosophical and theological divide between sacrifice and gift.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45960481341493,"sku":"ByrdShop_0813220033","price":133.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780813220031.jpg?v=1788288541","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/sacrifice-as-gift-eucharist-grace-and-contemplative-prayer-in-maurice-de-la-taille-9780813220031","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}