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If you think Chauvet opposes either the Pope and/or Aquinas, you have obviously not read himLouis-Marie Chauvet seem like an interesting fellow. I don’t have time to read this right now but here’s an exerpt and the link. At first glance it seems Dr. Chauvet opposes the pope and St. Thomas Aquinas on the subject of the Eucharist. Take that for what you will.
The Instrumental Causality of the Sacraments
Thomas Aquinas and Louis-Marie Chauvet
by Bernhard Blankenhorn, OP
“One can find a similar trend in sacramental theology. For example, Louis-Marie Chauvent at the Institut Catholique in Paris seems to have attained a certain dominance in French sacramental theology, while the 1995 translation of his major work Symbol and Sacrament, which is heavily marked by Heidegger’s philosophy, has brought attention to this thought in the United States. Some of postmodern theology’s most distinguishing aspects include the insistence on the cultural and linguistic mediation of all thought and doctrine as well as a wide-scale rejection of classical metaphysics. The Church Fathers, scholastics, and contemporary theologians such as Hans Urs von Balthasar and Joseph Ratzinger (in his personal theology) are thus critiqued for haing violated the mystery of God by reducing him to a being or first cause, for having misunderstood being as presence, or for having interpreted the sacraments according to a human model of mechanical production…”
“Furthermore, Chauvet is opposing what is perhaps the best theological expression of a doctrine that appears to be quite central to Catholicism, that is, the belief that the sacraments cause grace. It will become clear that Chauvet’s critique of Aquinas inevitably targets patristic sacramentology as well.”
opwest.org/Archive/2006/200605/blankenhorn_article.pdf
Have you?
Or is this just another diatribe?