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To a deplorable extent, Christians accept Church rituals as sacred but baffling heirlooms from the Church's past. It is to remedy this situation that Father Daniélou has written this book. The Bible and the Liturgy illuminates, better than has ever before been done, the vital and meaningful bond between Bible and liturgy. Father Daniélou aims at bringing clearly before his reader's minds the fact that the Church's liturgical rites and feasts are intended, not only to transmit the grace of the sacraments, but to instruct the faithful in their meaning as well as the meaning of the whole Christian life. It is through the sacraments in their role as signs that we learn. So that their value will be appreciated, Daniélou attempts to help us rediscover the significance of these rites so that the sacraments may once again be thought of as the prolongation of the great works of God in the Old Testament and the New.
Sommario
Introduction
1. The Preparation
2. The Baptismal Rite
3. The Sphragis
4. The Types of Baptism: Creation and the Deluge
5. Types of Baptism: The Crossing of the Red Sea
6. Types of Baptism: Elias and the Jordan
7. Confirmation
8. The Eucharistic Rites
9. The Figures of the Eucharist
10. The Paschal Lamb
11. Psalm XXVII
12. The Canticle of Canticles
13. New Testament Types
14. The Mystery of the Sabbath
15. The Lord's Day
16. The Eighth Day
17. Easter
18. The Ascension
19. Pentecost
20. The Feast of Tabernacles
Index
Info autore
Jean Daniélou, S.J. (1905-1974) was a French Jesuit and cardinal, an internationally well known patrologist, theologian and historian and a member of the Académie Française. He was the author of numerous works, including
Why the Church?,
The Angels and Their Mission: According to the Fathers of the Church, and
Prayer: The Mission of the Church.
