Free Download Lucas Briola, "The Eucharistic Vision of Laudato Si': Praise, Conversion, and Integral Ecology"
English | ISBN: 0813235812 | 2023 | 288 pages | PDF | 2 MB
No other encyclical has generated as much conversation―both Catholic and non-Catholic―as Laudato si'. Often forgotten in these conversations is the theological heart and eucharistic vision of the encyclical and its integral ecology. Even the title of Laudato si'―"Praised be!"―signals the centrality of right praise in caring for our common home. Using Bernard Lonergan's theology of history, this book unearths the doxological, eucharistic vision that shapes the encyclical's integral presentation of social and ecological conversion. It offers the first book-length study that recovers the eucharistic nature of