New Look at the Sacraments

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Summary: New View of Sacraments Limmited
Review: Bausch's "A New Look at the Sacraments" offers some valuable insights into our ideas of what the Sacraments mean, however, Bausch also claims that the traditional understandings of the Sacraments are incorrect, and offers his theories as an alternative, rather than an addendum. Bausch takes some good ideas, and applies them horribly by offering a limmited view of the meaning of the Sacraments. Bausche's theories when viewed as an alternative to a more traditional understanding of the sacraments denies the idea of the Sacraments having any understanding as facilitating a personal relationship w/ Christ. He sees the Sacraments purely as a community thing. A community understanding of the Sacraments is good, and this book helps a person to deepen their understanding of what the Sacraments are, but to say that this understanding is the only true understanding of the Sacraments is wrong.

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Summary: New View of Sacraments Limmited
Review: Bausch's "A New Look at the Sacraments" offers some valuable insights into our ideas of what the Sacraments mean, however, Bausch also claims that the traditional understandings of the Sacraments are incorrect, and offers his theories as an alternative, rather than an addendum. Bausch takes some good ideas, and applies them horribly by offering a limmited view of the meaning of the Sacraments. Bausche's theories when viewed as an alternative to a more traditional understanding of the sacraments denies the idea of the Sacraments having any understanding as facilitating a personal relationship w/ Christ. He sees the Sacraments purely as a community thing. A community understanding of the Sacraments is good, and this book helps a person to deepen their understanding of what the Sacraments are, but to say that this understanding is the only true understanding of the Sacraments is wrong.

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Summary: Correction on Publication Status
Review: Bausch's Sacraments is a good historical and theological overview of the seven sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church. It is readable and easy to understand for beginning lay people and has enough content for high level readers. We use this book as a textbook for the area's adult religious education program sponsored by seven area Catholic parishes.

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Summary: Good overview
Review: Bausch's Sacraments is a good historical and theological overview of the seven sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church. It is readable and easy to understand for beginning lay people and has enough content for high level readers. We use this book as a textbook for the area's adult religious education program sponsored by seven area Catholic parishes.

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Summary: Correction on Publication Status
Review: This book is listed as out of print. It is not out of print. It's being used as a textbook in a class I'm currently taking. It is available from Twenty-Third Publications in Mystic, CT. We're also using one of Kenan Osborne's books, and I must say that Bausch is very much easier to read and understand than Osborne.