The Oxford handbook of sacramental theology / edited by Hans Boersma and Matthew Levering.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sacramentality and the Old Testament / R.W.L. Moberly Sacramentality in the Torah / Dennis T. Olson Intertestamental background of the Christian sacraments / Craig A. Evans and Jeremiah J. Johnston Sacraments and sacramentality in the New Testament / Nicholas Perrin Sacrifice and sacrament : sacramental implications of the death of Christ / Edith M. Humphrey Sacraments and the Gospel of John / Richard Bauckham Sacraments in the Pauline epistles / David Lincicum Sacramentality and sacraments in Hebrews / Luke Timothy Johnson Sacraments in the pre-Nicene period / Everett Ferguson Sacraments in the fourth century / Khaled Anatolios Augustine and the West to AD 650 / Lewis Ayres and Thomas Humphries Late patristic developments in sacramental theology in the East : fifth-ninth centuries / Andrew Louth Sacramental theology from Gottschalk to Lanfranc / Mark G. Vaillancourt The Christo-pneumatic-ecclesial character of twelfth-century sacramental theology / Boyd Taylof Coolman The sacraments in thirteenth-century theology / Joseph P. Wawrykow The eucharist in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / Ian Christopher Levy Sacramental ritual in middle and later Byzantine theology : ninth-fifteenth centuries / Yury P. Avvakumov Sacraments in the Lutheran Reformation / Mickey L. Mattox Sacraments in the Reformed and Anglican Reformation / Michael Allen Sacraments in the radical Reformation / John D. Rempel Sacraments in the Council of Trent and sixteenth-century Catholic theology / Peter Walter Orthodox sacramental theology : sixteenth-nineteenth centuries / Brian A. Butcher Post-Tridentine sacramental theology / Trent Pomplun Lutheran and Reformed sacramental theology : seventeenth-nineteenth centuries / Scott R. Swain Sacramental theology in America : seventeenth-nineteenth centuries / E. Brooks Holifield Sacraments in general and baptism in twentieth-century and contemporary protestant theology / Martha L. Moore-Keish The Lord's supper in twentieth-century and contemporary Protestant theology / George Hunsinger Catholic sacramental theology in the twentieth century / Peter J. Casarella Twentieth-century and contemporary Orthodox sacramental theology / Peter Galadza Liturgy, signs and sacraments / David W. Fagerberg One baptism, one church? / Geoffrey Wainwright Confirmation / Chad C. Pecknold and Lucas Laborde, S.S.J What is the eucharist? A dogmatic outline / Bruce D. Marshall Marriage / Brent Waters The sacrament of orders dogmatically understood / Adam A.J. DeVille Reconciliation / Anthony Akinwale, O.P Anointing of the sick / John C. Kasza Sacraments and philosophy / Thomas Joseph White, O.P The sacraments and the development of doctrine / Benoît-Dominique de la Soujeole, O.P A sacramental world : why it matters / David Brown Christ, the Trinity, and the sacraments / Francesca Aran Murphy Signs of the eschatological ekklesia : the sacraments, the church, and eschatology / Peter J. Leithart Liturgy, preaching, and the sacraments / Gordon W. Lathrop Sense and sacrament / Catherine Pickstock The sacraments in ecumenical dialogue / Jorge A. Scampini, O.P

"As a multi-faceted introduction to sacramental theology, the purposes of this Handbook are threefold: historical, ecumenical, and missional. The forty-four chapters are organized into the following parts five parts: Sacramental Roots in Scripture, Patristic Sacramental Theology, Medieval Sacramental Theology, From the Reformation through Today, and Philosophical and Theological Issues in Sacramental Doctrine. Contributors to this Handbook explain the diverse ways that believers have construed the sacraments, both in inspired Scripture and in the history of the Church's practice. In Scripture and the early Church, Orthodox, Protestants, and Catholics all find evidence that the first Christian communities celebrated and taught about the sacraments in a manner that Orthodox, Protestants, and Catholics today affirm as the foundation of their own faith and practice. Thus, for those who want to understand what has been taught about the sacraments in Scripture and across the generations by the major thinkers of the various Christian traditions, this Handbook provides an introduction. As the divisions in Christian sacramental understanding and practice are certainly evident in this Handbook, it is not thereby without ecumenical and missional value. This book evidences that the story of the Christian sacraments is, despite divisions in interpretation and practice, one of tremendous hope"--Publisher