Why priests? : a failed tradition / Garry Wills.

Author: Wills, Garry, 1934-

Publisher: New York : Viking, 2013.

ISBN: 9780670024872 (hbk.)
0670024872 (hbk.)

Description: x, 302 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject: Catholic Church Doctrines.
Transubstantiation.
Lord's Supper Catholic Church.
Lord's Supper Real presence.
Lord's Supper Biblical teaching.
Priests.
Lord's Supper Miracles.

Contents: Priest 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).