Description
Book SynopsisThis series on the seven Sacraments provides readers with a deeper appreciation of God's gifts and call in the Sacraments through a renewed encounter with God's Word. In this volume, a leading Catholic scholar offers a biblical theology of the priesthood rooted in the Old and New Testaments. Half a millennium after the Protestant Reformation and in the midst of an ongoing clerical crisis in the Catholic Church, this book presents a comprehensive biblical vision and defense of the sacramental priesthood and an informed theological response to the problem of priestly sin. It gives expression to the ministerial priesthood's biblically grounded, sacramental share in the sacrificial ministry of Jesus Christ. Series editors are Timothy C. Gray and John Sehorn. Gray is president of the Augustine Institute, which has one million subscribers to its online content channel, Formed.org. Gray and Sehorn teach at the Augustine Institute Graduate School of Theology, which prepares students for Christian mission through on-campus and distance-education programs.
Table of ContentsContents
List of Sidebars
Series Preface
Part 1: Introduction
1. Priesthood and the Project of Catholic Exegesis
Hermeneutical Interlude:
A Catholic AlternativePart 2: "The Sons of Aaron in Their Splendor"
2. "The Glory of the Lord Appeared" (Lev. 9:23):
Priesthood as TheophanyExcursus 1: Purity and Holiness
Excursus 2: Levi, Levites, and the Priesthood
3. "Like People, like Priest" (Hosea 4:9):
Priestly Sin and the Prophetic CritiqueExcursus 3: Corruption of Priests and Temple
Excursus 4: The Priesthood of Eli and Sons at Shiloh
4. "I Will Clothe You with Festal Apparel" (Zech. 3:4):
The Promise of a New PriesthoodExcursus 5: David's Royal Priesthood
Excursus 6: Transfiguration of the Temple
and the Future of Theophany
Part 3: "The Order of Melchizedek"
5. "Feed My Sheep" (John 21:17):
The Inauguration of New Covenant Ordo
Excursus 7: Israel's Last Prophet
Excursus 8: The Language of Pastoral Order
6. "A Spiritual Temple, a Holy Priesthood" (1 Pet. 2:5):
Priestly Sacrifice and the New LawExcursus 9: The Laying On of Hands
Excursus 10: "Mediator of a New Covenant" (Heb. 12:24):
Priests in the Letter to the Hebrews7. Conclusion: Jesus as Charismatic Founder of a Hierarchical Church
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