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This course will study the idea of sacrament as a central theological hermeneutic that underpins some of the key ways of thinking in the Catholic tradition. The theology of sacrament will be studied from the perspective of the early Christian writers (for example Augustine), as well as that of modern theological discourse on a sacramental worldview, especially in the writings of Odo Casel, Otto Semmelroth, Karl Rahner, Edward Schillebeeckx and Louis-Marie Chauvet. Contemporary expositions of ritual sacramental theory are studied. The course includes a study of the theology of baptism from the perspective of the principal debates that helped shape how it is understood today in various church traditions.
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