Christ and the Catholic Priesthood : Ecclesial hierarchy and the pattern of the Trinity / Matthew Levering. [print]

Ecclesial hierarchy Hierarchical priesthood and trinitarian communion The priesthood of Christ The priesthood of the first Christians Priority or primacy in the church Sacramental mediation Hierarchy and holiness.

The leading figures of the Enlightenment and the Reformation (and leading up to Catholic theologians of our own day) have subjected Catholic understanding of ecclesial hierarchy and sacramental mediation of the priesthood to a withering critique. Christ and the Catholic Priesthood: Ecclesial Hierarchy and the Pattern of the Trinity will establish the foundation for a theology of the hierarchical priesthood based on the hierarchical order of the Trinitarian gift, of love. Matthew Levering's brilliant original study systematically analyzes in detail the nature of Christ's priesthood, Christian hierarchical priesthood, and sacramental mediation. The book's five chapters approach the topic of hierarchy in the Church through Trinitarian and soteriological reflection, unified by dialogical engagement with the biblical, patristic, and metaphysical resources of St. Thomas Aquinas's theology. Link to source of summary

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Matthew Levering is a Professor of Theology at the University of Dayton. During 2006-2007, he held the Myser Fellowship at the Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of three highly acclaimed books on scripture and St. Thomas. His forthcoming books include Participatory Biblical Exegesis, Biblical Natural Law, and Christ and the Catholic Pristhood: Ecclesial Hierarchy and the Pattern of the Trinity (Hillenbrand Books, 2010). He has also co-authored two books with Dr. Michael Dauphinais and coedited several other works, including most recently Vatican II: Renewal within Tradition, Aquinas the Augustinian, and Wisdom and Holiness, Science and Scholarship. Dr. Levering is the coeditor and cofounder with Dr. Dauphinais of the English version of the international theological and philosophical journal Nova et Vetera. He is the founding Chair of the Board of the Academy of Catholic Theology. He holds the degrees of B.A. from the University of North Carolina, M.T.S. from Duke Divinity School, and Ph.D. from Boston College. ~ Amazon