Contents

pp vii-viii

List of contributors

pp ix-x

Prefatory note

pp xi-xii

Introduction

pp 1-6

PART I

pp 7-8

1 - Sacrifice and holiness

pp 9-21

2 - Sacrifice and world order: some observations on ben Sira's attitude to the temple service

pp 22-34

3 - Paul's understanding of the death of Jesus as sacrifice

pp 35-56

4 - Hebrews: the final sacrifice

pp 57-72

5 - St Athanasius on Christ's sacrifice

pp 73-100

6 - The doctrine of sacrifice: Augustine and the Latin patristic tradition

pp 101-117

7 - Sacrifice in the early East Syrian eucharistic tradition

pp 118-126

PART II

pp 127-128

8 - On eucharistic sacrifice in the middle ages

pp 129-156

9 - The sacrifice of the mass at the Council of Trent

pp 157-181

10 - Sacrifice in Puritan typology

pp 182-202

PART III

pp 203-204

11 - The conscious and the unconscious sacrifice: Kierkegaard on art, suffering and religion

pp 205-217

12 - Pearse's sacrifice: Christ and Cuchulain crucified and risen in the Easter Rising, 1916

pp 218-234

13 - The concept of sacrifice in Anglican social ethics

pp 235-246

14 - Eucharistic sacrifice: the problem of how to use a liturgical metaphor, with special reference to Simone Weil

pp 247-262

PART IV

pp 263-264

15 - The semantics of sacrifice

pp 265-281

16 - Outline of a theology of sacrifice

pp 282-298

17 - Christ died for us: reflections on the sacrificial language of salvation

pp 299-325

Index of biblical and ancient references

pp 326-330

Index of persons

pp 331-339