In this episode I speak with Eugene Schlesinger. He holds the PhD from Marquette University. He is Lecturer in Religious Studies at Santa Clara University and editor of Covenant. He is here to talk to me about his new book, Sacrificing the Church: Mass, Mission, and Ecumenism (Lexington Books/Fortress Academic), which will be released on September 30. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781978700000/Sacrificing-the-Church-Mass-Mission-and-Ecumenism

Recommended Sources:

Augustine. City of God.

Hans Urs von Balthasar. Theo-Drama IV: The Action. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1994.

Sarah Coakley. Sacrifice Regained: Evolution, Cooperation and God. https://www.giffordlectures.org/lectures/sacrifice-regained-evolution-cooperation-and-god

Jonathan Klawans. Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple: Symbolism and Supersessionism in the Study of Ancient Judaism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Andrew McGowan. Ascetic Eucharists: Food and Drink in Early Christian Ritual Meals. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.

Ephraim Radner. A Brutal Unity: The Spiritual Politics of the Christian Church. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2012.

Ephraim Radner. Hope Among the Fragments: The Broken Church and Its Engagement of Scripture. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2004.

Ephraim Radner. The End of the Church: A Pneumatology of Christian Division in the West. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1998.

Michael Ramsey. The Gospel and the Catholic Church: Recapturing a Biblical Understanding of the Church as the Body of Christ. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1936. Reprint: Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2009.