The Theology of Redemptive Suffering

Isaiah's Suffering Servant, the Mystical Body of Christ, and the Catholic Doctrine of Our Share in the Work of Redemption

von Jesus Fernandez-Pedrera

406 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Nothing is lacking to the Cross. So what did St. Paul mean when he wrote that he was completing "what is lacking in Christ's afflictions"?Every Catholic has heard the words "offer it up." Few have been shown the doctrine behind them. This volume sets out, with full theological rigor, why the Church can teach that the suffering of Christians, united to the Passion of Christ, is not wasted pain but a real, subordinate, and participated share in the application of the Redemption, without taking a single drop of merit from the infinite sufficiency of Calvary.Building on the classical distinction between objective and subjective redemption, on the ecclesiology of the Mystical Body, and on the theology of human suffering from the Fathers to Salvifici Doloris, The Theology of Redemptive Suffering follows the doctrine from its roots in Isaiah to its flowering in the saints.Inside this volume- The four Servant Songs of Isaiah and Psalm 22, read with the Hebrew, the Septuagint, the Vulgate, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.- Vicarious satisfaction from Anselm to Aquinas, and why it is not penal substitution.- Divine impassibility against the modern "suffering God" how the Son truly suffered while the divine nature did not.- The hypostatic union, the communicatio idiomatum, kenosis, and the agony of Gethsemane.- Objective and subjective redemption, baptism as an ontological grafting, the theology of merit, and the expiatory power of the members.- A full exegesis of Colossians 1:24 and the papal magisterium of reparation, from Miserentissimus Redemptor to Dilexit Nos.- Victim souls, theosis, the moral duty to embrace one's cross, the daring title of "cooperators" in salvation, and the eschatology of the Cross.A traditional Catholic treatise for readers who want the sourcesScripture is quoted from the RSV-2CE, the Fathers and St. Thomas Aquinas from the standard English editions, the councils and the popes from the official texts. The argument runs through sixteen chapters, nearly four hundred footnotes, and a bibliography of primary, patristic, and modern sources, and every thesis is marked with the classical scale of theological qualification, so the reader always knows what is defined dogma, what is common doctrine, and what is theological opinion.Who this book is forSeminarians, theology students, priests, catechists, and educated Catholics who want more than consolation: a systematic account of why suffering can save. Thomists and readers of the Fathers. Anyone who has ever been told to "offer it up" and wants to know exactly what that means. And Christians of other traditions who have asked how Catholics can speak of a human share in the Redemption without diminishing Christ.The Cross and the Mystical Body, Volume I.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798173258267
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 10.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published