Touched by Christ: The Sacramental Economy

by Lawrence Feingold

The sacramental economy was instituted by Christ and entrusted to His Church in order to build up the Body of Christ in a twofold binding the members together with God and one another. Touched by The Sacramental Economy is an introductory course on Sacramental Theology suitable for all who seek a deeper understanding of how the Church's sacraments constitute channels of grace, nurture supernatural life, and heal us from our sins. Lawrence Feingold expertly describes the nature of the sacraments; their purpose, fittingness, and relationship with Christ and the New Covenant; their relationship with the Old Covenant rites that prefigured them; the character and grace that they communicate; and the nature of their causality. Touched by Christ shows that the sacraments of the New Covenant should be understood as instruments of Christ's humanity that are used as words of power to communicate the sanctification that they signify, infuse grace, communicate the Holy Spirit, and build up ecclesial communion in those who receive them with the right dispositions.

Genres: Catholic, Theology, Religion, Christian, Grad School

848 pages, Hardcover

Published April 12, 2021

About the author

Dr. Lawrence Feingold is a Hebew Catholic who entered the Church in 1989.

Dr. Feingold studied Philosophy and Theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, and Biblical Hebrew and Greek at the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum in Jerusalem.

He taught Philosophy and Theology in the House of Formation of Miles Christi in Argentina. Until recently, Dr. Feingold was Assistant Professor of Theology for the Institute of Pastoral Theology of Ave Maria University.

Since 2011, he is Associate Professor of Theology and Philosophy at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Feingold is also Director of Theology for the Association of Hebrew Catholics.

B.A., 1981 Washington University
M.A., 1983 Columbia University
S.T.B., 1995 Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome
S.T.L., 1998 Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome
S.T.D., 1999 Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome

Reviews

[Will Rooney]

amazing summary of the church’s sacramental theology

Feingold is a master synthesizer of hundreds of sources regarding the history and theology of the Sacraments of the Church. Well worth your time and effort!

[Daniel Hackenjos]

An excellent and thorough overview of sacramental theology. Feingold writes in a very clear manner in which allows the sacraments to become accessible to all.

[Ardens]

Systematic overview of Scripture, Fathers, and Magisterium of the Church's teaching on the Sacraments. He doesn't shy away from the tough parts of classic texts like Florence and Trent, but also does a decent job balancing the "both/and" methodology of Catholic thought. It's helpful that the same textual examples are used in future chapters showing how new topics don't represent a change in doctrine and that the current teaching is rooted in Tradition. While the chapters seemed quite exhaustive, some of them felt a little unstructured or imbalanced i.e. spending a long time on one sacrament and then a brief section on another

[Ben Eastman]

Very in depth textbook on the Sacraments. Great reference book, will definitely be coming back to it when I need a refresher.