Roland Millare, A Living Sacrifice: Liturgy and Eschatology in Joseph Ratzinger (Steubenville, OH: Emmaus Academic, 2022), pp. 335. $34.95

Abstract

This book focuses on liturgy and eschatology in Joseph Ratzinger ’ s theology, but it also touches on Christology, ecclesiology, ethics and the celebration of the liturgy. According to Millare, Ratzinger follows Romano Guardini ’ s insistence on giving primacy to logos over ethos and sets the logos of communio against the modern overshadowing of truth by a concern for praxis and a preoccupation with the individual. Millare ’ s argument stretches over five chapters. First, he traces Guardini ’ s influence on Ratzinger to explain the latter ’ s rejection of contemporary theology ’ s preoccupation with the concerns of this world, immanentised conceptions of salvation, the subjection of the liturgy to individual whim or collective discretion, neo-Nestorian Christologies and worldly conceptions of hope. Second, Millare turns to Ratzinger ’ s eucharistic ecclesiology.