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Corpus Mysticum: The Eucharist and the Church in the Middle Ages

Corpus Mysticum: The Eucharist and the Church in the Middle Ages Book Reviews / Ecclesiology 5 (2009) 362–402 389 Henri de Lubac, Corpus Mysticum: Th e Eucharist and the Church in the Middle Ages , trans. Gemma Simmonds CJ with Richard Price, eds Laurence Paul Hemming and Susan Frank Parsons (London: SCM, 2006). 334 pp. £30. ISBN 0–334–02994–5 (pbk). Th is translation of Henri de Lubac’s seminal study of the Eucharist and the Church (fi rst published in 1944) is opportune at a time when the historic liturgical conservatism of the church in Rome is once again stirring and other traditions are reappraising their own catholic liturgical heritage. It throws into sharp relief the problems, thrown up by liberal interpretations of the Second Vatican Council’s liturgical legislation, with which liturgists like Alcuin Reed and Michael Lang are currently grappling. De Lubac’s central thesis is that a fundamental shift progressively occurred in medieval scholastic thinking about the ‘body of Christ’ whose consequences reverberate today. He states: Of the three terms: historical body, sacramental body and ecclesial body, that were in use … the caesura was originally placed between the fi rst and the second, whereas it subsequently came to be placed between the second and the third. Such, in brief, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Ecclesiology Brill

Corpus Mysticum: The Eucharist and the Church in the Middle Ages

Ecclesiology , Volume 5 (3): 389 – Jan 1, 2009

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Brill
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© 2009 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1744-1366
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1745-5316
DOI
10.1163/174413609X12466137866663
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Book Reviews / Ecclesiology 5 (2009) 362–402 389 Henri de Lubac, Corpus Mysticum: Th e Eucharist and the Church in the Middle Ages , trans. Gemma Simmonds CJ with Richard Price, eds Laurence Paul Hemming and Susan Frank Parsons (London: SCM, 2006). 334 pp. £30. ISBN 0–334–02994–5 (pbk). Th is translation of Henri de Lubac’s seminal study of the Eucharist and the Church (fi rst published in 1944) is opportune at a time when the historic liturgical conservatism of the church in Rome is once again stirring and other traditions are reappraising their own catholic liturgical heritage. It throws into sharp relief the problems, thrown up by liberal interpretations of the Second Vatican Council’s liturgical legislation, with which liturgists like Alcuin Reed and Michael Lang are currently grappling. De Lubac’s central thesis is that a fundamental shift progressively occurred in medieval scholastic thinking about the ‘body of Christ’ whose consequences reverberate today. He states: Of the three terms: historical body, sacramental body and ecclesial body, that were in use … the caesura was originally placed between the fi rst and the second, whereas it subsequently came to be placed between the second and the third. Such, in brief,

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Published: Jan 1, 2009

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