02763cam a2200361 i 4500001001000000003000600010005001700016008004100033010001500074020001800089020001500107040010600122042000800228050002200236082002200258100002500280245005400305264003000359300002300389336002100412337002500433338002300458504005000481505053600531520113501067610003102202650002302233650003502256650003302291650003702324650001202361650002802373796756350OCoLC20181217143621.0120918s2013    nyu      b    001 0 eng    a2012037034  a9780670024872  a0670024872  aDLCbengerdacDLCdYDXdBTCTAdBDXdIUKdYDXCPdKAAdABGdBWXdBURdMNJdVP@dMOFdYUSdCDXdUtOrBLW  apcc00aBX2220b.W57 201300a262.14223bW741W1 aWills, Garry,d1934-10aWhy priests? :ba failed tradition /cGarry Wills 1aNew York :bViking,c2013  a302 pages ;c24 cm  atext2rdacontent  aunmediated2rdamedia  avolume2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references and index0 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)  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 description20aCatholic ChurchxDoctrines 0aTransubstantiation 0aLord's SupperxCatholic Church 0aLord's SupperxReal presence 0aLord's SupperxBiblical teaching 0aPriests 0aLord's SupperxMiracles