Acknowledgments Introduction: James Farwell (Virginia Theological Seminary, USA) and Martha Moore-Keish (Columbia Theological Seminary, USA) Part 1: Foundations 1. Ritual and Sacrament as Bodily Practice: Frank C. Senn (Evangelical Lutheran Church, USA) 2. The Bible and the Christian Sacraments: Gordon W. Lathrop (Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, USA) 3. The Sacraments through History: Karen Westerfield Tucker (Boston University School of Theology, USA) 4. Sacramentality as contemporary theological context: The web of sacraments, liturgical theology and sacramentality today: Lizette Larson-Miller (Huron University College, London, Ontario, Canada) Part 2: Constructive Essays Section A: Sacramentality 5. The Future of the Past: Thoughts on the Sacramentality of Time: J. Neil Alexander (University of the South, USA) 6. Locating God: The significance of space for sacramental theology: James T. Hadley (Holy Cross Anglican Church, Palermo, Italy) 7. Elemental Signs of the Sacramental: Sacramentality, Visual Arts, and the Earth: Jyoti Sahi (Artist, India) 8. Sacramentality and Music: Dorothea Haspelmath-Finatti (University of Vienna, Austria) 9. The Sacramentality of the Word and the Holiness of Preaching: Lisa M. Weaver (Columbia Theological Seminary, USA) 10. Gathered Church Sacramentality: Loss and Recovery: Philip E. Thompson (North American Baptist Seminary, USA) Section B: Particular sacraments Christian Initiation 11. Christian Initiation: Ruth A. Meyers (Church Divinity School of the Pacific, USA) 12. One Baptism, Many Churches: Joyce Ann Zimmermann, CPPS (Institute for Liturgical Ministry, USA) 13. White, Wet Devils: Baptism, Race, and the Struggle for Baptismal Solidarity: Andrew Wymer (Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary, USA) Eucharist/Lord's Supper 14. Ecumenism and Roman Catholic Eucharist: Timothy Brunk (Villanova University, USA) 15. Healing Eucharist: Excavating the Table's Delusion and Redemption in White Dominant Church: Marcia W. Mount Shoop 16. Blessed are Those Who Hunger and Thirst for Justice: Overlapping and Indecenting Eucharistic Desire, Now and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: Angel F. Mendez Montoya (Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City, Mexico) 17. The Sacrament of Reconciliation: Julia Gatta (University of the South, USA) Marriage 18. The Sacramentality of Marriage in the Western Church: An Overview: Kimberly Bracken Long (Columbia Theological Seminary, USA) 19. Taking Lessons from the Liturgy: The Reception of the Second Vatican Council in the Rites of Marriage: Jaya Therese Vasupurathurathukan, CHF 20. Sacramentality in anointing of the sick: Bruce T. Morrill (Vanderbilt University, USA) 21. Footwashing as a Christian liturgy: A challenge to question what we mean by 'sacrament': Thomas O'Loughlin (University of Nottingham, UK) 22. The Ecosacramentality of the Funeral: Benjamin Stewart (Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, USA) 23. The Sacramentality of Orders: The contribution of sacramental theology to the pressing ecumenical question of the recognition of each other's ministry: James F. Puglisi, SA (Franciscan Friars of the Atonement, USA) Section C: Themes 24. Sacraments in a Post-Christian society: Joris Geldhof (KU Leuven, Belgium) 25. Sacraments and Sacramentality: Toward a Postcolonial Pluriverse with a Decolonial Thrust: Kristine Suna-Koro (Xavier University, USA) 26. Gender, Sacraments and Sacramentality: Susan A. Ross (Loyola University Chicago, USA) 27. Sacraments and Queer Theory: W. Scott Haldeman (Chicago Theological Seminary, USA) 28. Sacramentality and Comparative Theology: Rethinking Transcendence in Immanence: Sebastian Madathummuriyil (Duquesne University, USA) 29. Radical and Sacramental: A Theology for Sacraments in an Age of Pluralism: Glenn P. Ambrose (University of the Incarnate Word, USA) 30. Disability, Human Difference, and the Sacramentality of Access: Rebecca F. Spurrier (Columbia Theological Seminary, USA) 31. Sacraments in Migration and Migration in Sacraments: Peter C. Phan (Georgetown University, USA) 32. Science and Sacraments: E. Byron Anderson (Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, USA) 33. Sacramental Theology and Worship Technology in the Wake of a Pandemic: James Farwell (Virginia Theological Seminary, USA) and Martha Moore-Keish (Columbia Theological Seminary, USA) 34. Sacraments, Sacramentality and Integral Ecology in Pope Francis's Laudato Si': Kevin W. Irwin (Catholic University of America, USA) 35. Sacraments and Creation: Ecology-A Conversation with First Peoples: Carmel Pilcher (Pacific Regional Seminary, Flinders University, Australia) and Donato Kivi (Marist College, Suva, Fiji) 36. Sacraments and the Earth: The Poor, The Clouds and The Extinction of Animals: Claudio Carvalhaes (Union Theological Seminary, USA) 37. The Sacraments and Mission: The Unfolding Purpose of God for the World: Thomas Schattauer (Wartburg Seminary, USA) Bibliography Index