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The Transcendent Christ makes
available the conferences given by faculty at a summer study session
sponsored by the Saint Albert the Great Center for Scholastic Studies
and held in Norcia, Italy. The overarching theme was the Letter to the
Hebrews. These conferences explored aspects of the text as well as its
reception in Catholic theology and liturgy.- Dr. John P. Joy speaks of “The Sacrifice of Christ as an Act of Vicarious Satisfaction.”
- Rev. Thomas Crean, O.P., explores “How Is the Mass a Sacrifice?”
- Rev.
Yosyp Veresh considers “The Symbolism of the First Entrance of the Holy
Synaxis in the Mystagogy of St. Maximus the Confessor.”
- Rev. Cassian Folsom, O.S.B., presents “Biblical and Liturgical Typology in the Letter to the Hebrews.”
- Dr. Peter Kwasniewski expounds “The Christian Liturgy as Sacrificium Laudis in the Epistle to the Hebrews.”
- Br. Evagrius Hayden, O.S.B., addresses “Credere oportet accedentem ad Deum: On the Nature and Necessity of Faith.”
- Dr. Daniel Lendman discusses “Christ as Head of the Human Race.”
- Rev. Thomas Crean, O.P., presides over a Quæstiones Disputatæ
in which three questions are debated: Whether he who performs the rites
of the Old Law offends God?; Whether the shedding of blood is necessary
for the remission of sins?; Whether to please God it is sufficient to
believe that He exists and is a rewarder of those who seek Him?
- In
a chapter specially commissioned for this new edition, Dr. Nathan
Schmiedicke masterfully defends “The Pauline Authorship of Hebrews,”
espoused by a dominant tradition in East and West.
Both
scholars and the general public will find these proceedings full of new
and valuable insights into one of the most majestic and mysterious
writings in the New Testament—and will better understand the enormous
influence it has wielded over the centuries."
