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Fundamental Soteriology
On the Fullness of LifeMichal Paluch
Catholic University of America Press, 2026
Fullness of Life is a basic introduction to the Catholic understanding of salvation. It begins with a presentation of the background against which the teaching on salvation must be situated (the contemporary context of the question of salvation, the positions of other religions, the teaching of the magisterium) (chapter one), and a concise sketch on the history of soteriology (chapter two). The following chapters are a discussion of models for interpreting salvation relating to Christ's death on the cross (chapter three) and the totality of His life (chapter four). These considerations are concluded with a presentation of St. Thomas Aquinas' interpretative proposal (chapter five), which proves to be an apt way to synthesize the discussions presented earlier. The model of salvific mediation eventually turns out to be a higher-order model that allows to close the entire presentation (chapter six). The body of the text is supplemented by appendices that discuss a chosen set of particular problems related to the reflections in the corpus, that is, the “scapegoat” as a figure of Christ, the salvific function of other religions, substitution in Aquinas, and salutary suffering. The entire text ends with a selection of relevant sources.
With the help of such a structure, the book proposes a basic explanation of (sometimes distorted) interpretations of sacrifice, substitution, satisfaction, divinization. It helps to bring readers from their first steps of soteriological reflection to Aquinas’ synthesis and to help them to discover that – taking into account the contemporary discussions and problems – Aquinas’ account can still offer a very convincing way for synthesizing soteriology.
The book is addressed primarily to students of theology. However, it has been written in such a way that any Christian properly motivated to deepen their faith can benefit from reading it. And since it may serve as an aid in learning how to interpret the whole of soteriology, professional theologians may also find themselves inspired by it.
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The Fullness of Divine Worship
The Sacred Liturgy and its RenewalUwe Michael Lang
Catholic University of America Press, 2018
This volume offers a selection of essays from the pages of Antiphon: A Journal for Liturgical Renewal, the official organ of the Society for Catholic Liturgy. The Society was founded in 1995 as a multidisciplinary association of Catholic scholars, teachers, pastors, and ecclesiastical professionals in the Anglophone world, with the aim of promoting the scholarly study and practical renewal of the sacred liturgy.
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The Fullness of Time
Temporalities of the Fifteenth-Century Low CountriesMatthew S. Champion
University of Chicago Press, 2017
The Low Countries were at the heart of innovation in Europe in the fifteenth century. Throughout this period, the flourishing cultures of the Low Countries were also wrestling with time itself. The Fullness of Time explores that struggle, and the changing conceptions of temporality that it represented and embodied showing how they continue to influence historical narratives about the emergence of modernity today.
The Fullness of Time asks how the passage of time in the Low Countries was ordered by the rhythms of human action, from the musical life of a cathedral to the measurement of time by clocks and calendars, the work habits of a guildsman to the devotional practices of the laity and religious orders. Through a series of transdisciplinary case studies, it explores the multiple ways that objects, texts and music might themselves be said to engage with, imply, and unsettle time, shaping and forming the lives of the inhabitants of the fifteenth-century Low Countries. Champion reframes the ways historians have traditionally told the history of time, allowing us for the first time to understand the rich and varied interplay of temporalities in the period.
The Fullness of Time asks how the passage of time in the Low Countries was ordered by the rhythms of human action, from the musical life of a cathedral to the measurement of time by clocks and calendars, the work habits of a guildsman to the devotional practices of the laity and religious orders. Through a series of transdisciplinary case studies, it explores the multiple ways that objects, texts and music might themselves be said to engage with, imply, and unsettle time, shaping and forming the lives of the inhabitants of the fifteenth-century Low Countries. Champion reframes the ways historians have traditionally told the history of time, allowing us for the first time to understand the rich and varied interplay of temporalities in the period.
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