Written in the context of a decades-long struggle between progressive theologians and the magisteriuma struggle symptomatic of the current and wider crisis in the Roman Catholic Church - The Language of Dissent uses the theology of Edward Schillebeeckx as it has evolved and developed to analyze fundamental questions of authority and dissent in the church. Daniel Speed Thompson's approach to the issue of authority is unique in that he reflects not only on the character of the church but also on the very nature of salvation, revelation, and theological language.

Written in the context of a decades-long struggle between progressive theologians and the magisteriuma struggle symptomatic of the current and wider crisis in the Roman Catholic Church - The Language of Dissent uses the theology of Edward Schillebeeckx as it has evolved and developed to analyze fundamental questions of authority and dissent in the church. Daniel Speed Thompson's approach to the issue of authority is unique in that he reflects not only on the character of the church but also on the very nature of salvation, revelation, and theological language.

A reprinting of SchillebeeckxOs classic work. A standard in understanding the relationship between Christ, Sacrament and the Church. A positive and constructive ecclesial theology.

An outstanding contemporary analysis of the transubstantion and of its meaning and significance today . The first part of the book concentrates on the concerns and approach of the Fathers who defined the doctrine at The Council of Trent, the second part goes on to develop a modern interpretation of 'the distinctively eucharistic manner of the Real Presence.'