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003			OCoLC
005			20181217143621.0
008			120918s2013 nyu b 001 0 eng
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050	0	0	_aBX2220 _b.W57 2013
082	0	0	_a262.14 _223 _bW741W
100	1		_aWills, Garry, _d1934-
245	1	0	_aWhy priests? : _ba failed tradition / _cGarry Wills
264		1	_aNew York : _bViking, _c2013
300			_a302 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index
505	0		_aPriest power: the Eucharist -- A priestless movement -- Holy men -- The miracle -- Explaining the miracle: Aquinas -- Explaining the miracle : Augustine -- Jesus the non-priest: Killer priests -- The Melchizedek myth -- Higher Melchizedeks -- Melchizedek and Jesus -- Letter to Hebrews: What is it? -- What does it mean? -- A new high priest -- Jesus as sacrifice: Human sacrifice -- Who killed Jesus? -- Jesus as rescuer: The saving Trinity -- Comrade Christ -- Monopoly on the sacred: Priestly imperialism -- The Lord's Supper(s)
520			_aIn his most provocative book yet, Pulitzer Prize-winner Garry Wills asks the radical question: Why do we need priests? Author Wills spent five years as a young man at a Jesuit seminary and nearly became a priest himself. But after a lifetime of study and reflection, he now poses some challenging questions: Why do we need priests at all? Why did the priesthood arise in a religion that began without it and opposed it? Would Christianity be stronger without the priesthood, as it was at its outset? Meticulously researched, persuasively argued, and certain to spark debate, Why Priests? asserts that the anonymous Letter to Hebrews, a late addition to the New Testament canon, helped inject the priesthood into a Christianity where it did not exist, along with such concomitants as belief in an apostolic succession, the real presence in the Eucharist, the sacrificial interpretation of the Mass, and the ransom theory of redemption. But Wills does not expect the priesthood to fade entirely away. He just reminds us that Christianity did without it in the time of Peter and Paul with notable success.--From publisher description
610	2	0	_aCatholic Church _xDoctrines
650		0	_aTransubstantiation
650		0	_aLord's Supper _xCatholic Church
650		0	_aLord's Supper _xReal presence
650		0	_aLord's Supper _xBiblical teaching
650		0	_aPriests
650		0	_aLord's Supper _xMiracles
942			_2ddc _cBK