Timothy R. Gabrielli is an associate professor of theology at Seton Hill University in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, where he teaches courses in theology and in the liberal arts. He is also the author of Confirmation: How a Sacrament of God’s Grace Became All about Us (Liturgical Press, 2013).

• ContentsAcknowledgments   ixIntroduction   xiChapter 1  Resurgent Body: Mystical Body of Christ Theologies in Interbellum Europe 1Chapter 2  Journeyed Body: The Case of Virgil Michel   50Chapter 3  Receded Body: Mystical Body of Christ after Mid-Century   89Chapter 4  Vestigial Body 1: The Contours of the French Stream   125Chapter 5  Vestigial Body 2: Chauvet and the (Mystical) Body   152Conclusion   184Bibliography   199Index   223

"Contributing significantly to our understanding of twentieth-century theology, Gabrielli identifies three streams of mystical body theology: German, Roman, and French. Locating both Virgil Michel and Louis-Marie Chauvet in the French socio-liturgical stream, he brings together pre– and post–Vatican II theologies in a trans-Atlantic perspective that opens out beyond ecclesiology to include Christology, liturgy, social ethics, and fundamental theology, and he offers promise for a renewed mystical body theology. A stunning piece of historical theology and a fruitful frame for future developments!"William L. Portier, Mary Ann Spearin Chair of Catholic Theology, University of Dayton