About the Author
Clemens Cavallin
Clemens Cavallin is Professor of Religious Education at NLA University College in Norway. He is the author of Ritualization and Human Interiority, On the Edge of Infinity: A Biography of Michael D. O'Brien, and co-author of The Future of Religious Studies in India, and Christianity in India. He is a member of the Norwegian center for AI and Creativity and is currently undertaking research on the impact of AI technology on education and religion.
What People Are Saying
“In our contemporary world, we are not so eager to speak about sacrifice anymore. Still, it is an integral part of our entire existence, and even more so on the supernatural level. God has saved us thanks to the sacrifice of his Son on the Cross. Every human relationship of love entails some kind of sacrifice if love is true. In nature and in society, we find so many examples of the importance of sacrifice. In Sacrifice: Religion and the Revitalization of Christian Life, Clemens Cavallin helps us to realize that sacrifice is an all-encompassing aspect of life. As Christians, we owe everything to God’s mercy that is given to us in Christ, who was sacrificed for our redemption.”
Anders Cardinal Arborelius, OCD
Bishop of Stockholm
“We live in a consumer culture that is relentlessly focused on the self and its material appetites yet is also marked by widespread unhappiness. This isn’t an accident; it’s the logical outcome of a life without a shared higher purpose. Clemens Cavallin has written a moving, critically important reflection on the medicine we now urgently need: the role of sacrifice—self-sacrifice in service to others rooted in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ—in recovering the soul of the modern world.”
Francis X. Maier
Senior Fellow in Catholic Studies, Ethics and Public Policy Center
“Can human civilization leave behind the practice of ritual sacrifice? According to Clemens Cavallin, this is neither possible nor desirable. Deeply rooted in human nature, sacrifice is an ambiguous and multifaceted phenomenon that will persist as long as there are men. The only question is to whom we should sacrifice. Approaching biblical and extra-biblical sacrifice as a scholar of comparative religion who is also a committed Thomist, Cavallin occupies a unique vantage point. He shows that the Catholic understanding of Christ’s sacrifice and the sacrifice of the Mass are only intelligible against the background of humanity’s natural sacrificial impulse. This book is a masterful study in Catholic comparative religion and a splendid guide to the darkness and light of human worship.”
Mats Wahlberg
Associate Professor of Systematic Theology, Umeå University, Sweden, and Author of Sacrificial Love and the Problem of Evil
Discover the Heart of Authentic Flourishing
Sacrifice: Religion and the Revitalization of Christian Life by scholar Clemens Cavallin articulates the theological language and discourse that are essential for human flourishing.
Bridging the fields of religious studies and theology, this treatise asks:
What is a sacrifice?
What is the relation of the Christian sacrifice to those in other religions?
What is the future of sacrifice?
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