INTRODUCTION: ALARM OVER NEW INTERPRETATIONS; I: THE TRIDENTINE APPROACH TO FAITH; The General Background; The Text of the Dogma: Its Origin, Growth and Final Drafting; Some Hermeneutic Afterthoughts; The Concept ""Substance, "" the Tradition of the Church and the Aristotelian Doctrine of Substance and Accidents; The Problem: What Is Reality?; II: A NEW APPROACH TOWARDS THE FORMULATION OF FAITH; Factors Heralding the New Approach; The Conflict between Aristotelianism and Modern Physics; The Rediscovery of the Sacramental Symbolic Activity; The Sacrament as a Sign
The New Anthropological Interpretation of the Religious Symbolic Act in GeneralThe Tridentine Concept of Substance; The Manifold Realisation of the One ""Real Presence"" of Christ; The Desire for Christian Unity; The New Point of Departure for the Interpretation of the Eucharistic Presence; The Distinctively Eucharistic Manner of the ""Real Presence""; Biblical Assumptions; The Basic Principle: Reality Is Not Man''s Handiwork; The Basis of All Man''s Giving of Meaning; Human Giving of Meaning-Productive and Symbolic; The Eucharist and ""Bread and Wine"" in Human Religious Symbolic Activity
The Real Presence of Christ and of His Church in the EucharistTransubstantiation and Transsignification or a New Giving of Meaning; Reality and Its Phenomenal Appearance; The ""Body of the Lord"" Appearing in Sacramental Form; CONCLUSION: THE ""WHY"" AND THE ""HOW""
Summary
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 mdern interpretation of 'the distinctively eucharistic manner of the Real Presence.'
