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This is the Night: Suffering, Salvation, and the Liturgies of Holy Week is unavailable, but you can change that!

This Is the Night is a work of “liturgical theology,” understood as a theology inspired or informed by the liturgies of Christian Holy Week. In the context of modernity in crisis, it is an attempt to think with the principal liturgies of the “Paschal Triduum” – Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Great Vigil of Easter – about human suffering. The author works from an analysis of the structure...

Human beings are ritual beings, who come to their identity through the intentions incarnated in repetitive actions around symbols of life’s deep sources. More precisely, those intentions are themselves the product of ritual action. Human beings come to be certain kinds of persons, in part, by repeatedly rehearsing in a regularized fashion certain values and perceptions in worship before God. (2) A corollary commitment is to the role of the body in the coming to be of the human person. In this anthropology,
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