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« Several themes crucial for contemporary Christian theology are brought together in a carefully innovative way by Richard Nicholas in this most helpful investigation. How to build theology on the one rock, the « concrete universal, Jesus Christ, and that in a way which is historical and experimental, that is, sacramental. How to ground theology in an ecclesial, communion oriented sensibility. And, not least, how to place freedom at the very heart of the theological enterprise. Professor Nicholas mines the wealth of American theologian Donald J. Keefe, S.J., who proposes the Eucharist as the foundational ordering and governing principle of theology, its prius. Nicholas carefully presents Keefe's thesis as well as his critical view of the traditional prius as found in Thomas Aquinas, finding that Aquinas actually lends himself to Keefe's endeavor. This is a refreshingly deep and critical study, proposing a sacramentally rich Catholic theology at once metaphysically oriented and historically aware.

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The Author: Richard A. Nicholas, Assistant Professor of Theology at the University of St. Francis, Joliet, Illinois, has taught at Mount St. Mary's Seminary, Emmitsburg, Maryland and Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas. A recipient of the Smith Family Fellowship and the Charles M. Ross Trust Fellowship, Dr. Nicholas earned his Ph.D. from Marquette University. His current research focuses on the methodological implications that a covenantal prime analogate has for sacramental theology, liturgy, and Christology.

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