The sacramental economy was instituted by Christ and entrusted to His Church in order to build up the Body of Christ in a twofold communion: binding the members together with God and one another.
Touched by Christ: 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.
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Dr. Lawrence Feingold is Professor of Theology at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in
St. Louis. He and his wife were Jewish atheists who were baptized together with
their infant son at the age of 29 and were received the following year into the
Catholic Church. He is the author of Touched by Christ: The Sacramental
Economy; The Eucharist: Mystery of Presence, Sacrifice, and Communion; Faith
Comes from What Is Heard: An Introduction to Fundamental Theology; The
Mystery of Israel and the Church; and The Natural Desire to See God According to
St. Thomas Aquinas and His Interpreters.
