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The Priesthood of the Plebs: A Theology of Baptism is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this seminal treatise, Peter J. Leithart argues that the coming of the New Creation in Jesus Christ has profound and revolutionary implications for social order—implications symbolized and effected in the ritual of baptism. In Christ and Christian baptism, the ancient distinctions between priest and non-priest, between patrician and plebian, are dissolved, giving rise to a new humanity in...

by an authority within a contingent semiotic economy. Signs have creative power but of a more cultural than magical kind. Because this conception seeks sociological rather than natural/physical analogies for the sacraments, it protects, better than Thomas, the principle that sacramenta causant significando.46 Covenantal causality locates the divine role more at the level of institution than at the moment of administration. Contrary to some criticisms, this does not imply that the sacraments lack
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