Rite and Man Stories like us in all things

like us in all things except sin

the installation of Scholasticism

The final chapter segues into the Appendix of three papal documents on Aquinas: Leo XIII’s Aeterni Patris

with an immense confidence in her own capabilities

a concern which manifests the full import of Léon Bloy’s famous formula: “Man has places in his poor heart which do not yet exist

Rite and Man Stories like us in all thingsBy Louis Bouyer The beliefs and practices of Christianity find their source, not in man, but in God. Yet God was made man; he pitched his tent amongst his own creatures. And only with his Incarnation does he establish his Church and all its attendant, human practices. In Rite and Man: The Sense of the Sacred and Christian Liturgy, Louis Bouyer seeks to make these apparently abstract truths concrete. Aided by fresh insights from the fields of