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A classic theological text rediscovered and brought back into print, Pastoral Liturgy is an important contribution to the field of liturgical studies and a prophetic vision of the Church’s future. In 1960, soon after Pope John XXIII announced the Second Vatican Council, Jesuit priest and scholar Joseph Jungmann followed up his The Mass of the Roman Rite with another great theological work titled...

purae is not, however, transcended by our believing in the Person of Christ; for in this way the notion could still persist that Christ only came to teach us a higher morality, to preach the ideals of the Sermon on The Mount. The liberal Christianity of Harnack—and not that alone—remains on this plane. But even where—unlike the case mentioned—there is belief in Christ’s divinity, this idea is still possible and sometimes it can govern Catholic thought: In Christ, God is appearing upon earth in human
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