Sentences with phrase «church as the sacrament»

The emphasis of Vatican II is on the Church as sacrament, which, he says, is of «foundational importance» to the ecclesiology of the council, appearing four times in Lumen Gentium and six times in other documents of the council.

He will be able to do it only if he views the Church as the sacrament of the salvation of the world.

Such vital realities as the People of God, the Church as sacrament, the Kingdom, the Resurrection and the Liturgy are discussed and probed.

Behind these concerns is a desire to push through Cavadini's initial criticisms of Weigel's project as insufficiently attentive to the Catholic notion of the church as sacrament.

Over against what he perceives to be Weigel's giving too much away to Protestant ideas of communion as personal friendship and encounter, Cavadini reasserts the sacramental priority of grace as grounded in the connection between Christ as primordial sacrament and the church as sacrament (the Totus Christus).

extra-ecclesial communication (Church as sacrament of the Kingdom within the unity of mankind); and

Vatican II by no means rejected the image of Body of Christ, or Mystical Body, but it subordinated all the images, including «People of God,» to the theological concept of the Church as sacrament, which Karl Rahner called the Grundidee of Vatican II's ecclesiology.

John Cavadini's criticism of George Weigel's thesis in Evangelical Catholicism («Church as Sacrament,» August / September) refuses to engage the book on the grounds upon which it seeks to engage.

Not exact matches

While specific churches (notably the Santo Daime) have been granted legal permission to use ayahuasca as a holy sacrament in the U.S.A., many people prefer to experience the medicine in Peru or Brazil instead.

This friendship with the Lord Jesus is found in the Word of God recognized as such by the Church in the Bible; in the sacraments; in works of charity and service; and in the fellowship of those who have recognized and embraced the risen one.

The responsibility of bishops is and always has been, as Archbishop Raymond Burke of St. Louis and other bishops have explained in great detail, to protect the integrity of the sacrament, to prevent public scandal that creates confusion about the Church's teaching, and to avoid the danger of people receiving the sacrament, as St. Paul puts it, to their damnation.

A related pair of loosely organized sects that originated in Jamaica, the Rastafarians and the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church, use marijuana as a sacrament.

On the plus side, he makes clear that Christian worship is an encounter in Word and Sacrament with the living Christ, who is present to the church by his Spirit and who forms the church as a divine and human communion.

Thanks jellyfishdude — I am fully educated on the schism and consider my orthodox brothers the same as me but I do not appreciate how some of the orthodox churches deny some sacraments in western christianity.

Haught can not explain what happens at death, nor the meaning of the sacraments as taught by the Church, nor the human need for true interior life.

We are enabled to live as a disciple of Christ, and can draw daily on the grace given by God in this sacrament so as to witness to Christ, fight against evil and defend the Church.

The core principle of the sacraments of the Church therefore lies in this nature of man as «spirit wrapped in matter» or, perhaps better to say, matter integrated into spirit, which has been created by God for intimate union with Himself through Jesus Christ.

The oneness of the church — one Lord, one faith, one baptism — is as integral to being a part of Christ's body as receiving the sacrament of bread and wine.

They are my journey with the sacraments, and in many ways with the church as a whole.

He is so after the offering of the sacrifice, the making of the sacrament, as long as the Eucharist is kept in churches and oratories.

This in turn makes it possible to present the sacraments as a natural consequence of the relationship between Christ and his Church without making matter or human actions pre-determine divine grace.

So too the dignity of man, made male and female as the sacrament of Christ and his Church (cf. Ephesians 5:32), is strikingly reaffirmed, and from this many of the Churchs moral and social teachings can be beautifully explained and underlined.

All the ordinary means of sanctification which are given to us in God's mercy through the Catholic Church are available to those who choose to be involved in Faith, most especially, the Holy Eucharist, the sacrament of Penance and personal prayer, as well as devotion to Mary, the Mother of Jesus and our Mother too.

The drama of sacraments as occasions in which the power of God comes to dwell in the believer can become obscured when a church takes its rites for granted or forgets the radical nature of Christian identity.

It was customary among the Reformers themselves to speak of a «valid» ministry as one in which «the pure Word of God is preached and the sacraments be duly administered according to Christ's ordinance» (to quote the Anglican Thirty - nine Articles, which are paralleled in other and similar «confessions»); and the history of the ministry in the Christian Church as a whole makes it abundantly clear that «authority to preach the Word of God,» or the right to «dispense the Word of God,» or the giving to the candidate of the Church's recognition and authority to be «preacher of the Gospel» — all these are more or less synonymous phrases — has been an integral part of ordination.

As in other cases, Rowan Williams is characteristic: his theology is deeply informed by Luther, Schleiermacher, Barth, Rahner, von Balthasar, Bonhoeffer and other continental Europeans, besides theologies from other parts of the world, and his recent book On Christian Theology covers theological method, biblical hermeneutics, creation, sin, Jesus Christ, incarnation, church, sacraments, ethics and eschatology, with the Trinity as the integratoAs in other cases, Rowan Williams is characteristic: his theology is deeply informed by Luther, Schleiermacher, Barth, Rahner, von Balthasar, Bonhoeffer and other continental Europeans, besides theologies from other parts of the world, and his recent book On Christian Theology covers theological method, biblical hermeneutics, creation, sin, Jesus Christ, incarnation, church, sacraments, ethics and eschatology, with the Trinity as the integratoas the integrator.

The administration of the Church's sacraments is equally important, of course, and this is especially true for us if we accept the position of the sixteenth - century Reformers that in the celebration of the sacraments of Baptism and Holy Communion, as well as in the pulpit, the gospel is proclaimed and expressed.

Ordination might as well be seen as a sacrament; it has kept sacramental characteristics in most churches.

According to Balthasar everything in the Church is a movement between these two principles (Marian and Petrine): the Church as the bride of Christ is the extension and product of the living reality of Christ, which requires an essential structure (sacraments and ministry, which are founded by Christ Himself).

If Mary constitutes the subjective feminine holiness of the Church then Peter (Office and Sacraments) constitutes the objective / masculine holiness of the Church as it is entrusted to men (although those men who hold office still exist within the comprehensive femininity of the Church).

It would be a great mistake to understand Bonhoeffer as abolishing the worshipping church and replacing service and sacrament by acts of charity.

These seven sacraments allow us to genuinely encounter Christ again and again, as we require for our good and the good of the Church.

As the context makes clear, binding and loosing cover Church discipline, and Church discipline involves administering and removing temporal penalties (such as barring from and readmitting to the sacramentsAs the context makes clear, binding and loosing cover Church discipline, and Church discipline involves administering and removing temporal penalties (such as barring from and readmitting to the sacramentsas barring from and readmitting to the sacraments).

The greater church confirmed that inward call when I was ordained as a Minister of Word and Sacrament.

Even as Mantel complains bitterly of God's absence, she turns away from the Church that extends his presence in the world, in the sacraments and the rites, including the rite of exorcism.

But so long as a minister was in union with the One Church, the sacraments he administered were valid.

This to a certain degree non-official activity of the Church in the human beings of the Church under grace is an historical manifestation of the eschatological unconquerable grace which God has linked inseparably with the historical phenomenon of the Church as the primal sacrament of grace.

The Church ought, for example, long ago to have abolished genuflection before the Blessed Sacrament in Japan in favour of a deep bow, in deference to Japanese feelings, or to have ceased using spittle at baptism, as has now been done.

He believed that Christ exists in three «revelatory forms» - as Word, as sacrament, and as church.

In contrast, traditional Catholic churches serve vast numbers of people who have little or nothing in common, and they are often impersonal «supermarkets for the sacraments,» as some liberation theologians call them.

If we believe marriage is a sacrament, then all marriages performed outside the church are civil marriages, and however the state defines marriage can have absolutely no bearing on its sanctity as far as the church is concerned

It starts by referring to the Vatican II definition of the church as the «sign and sacrament of the unity of all humankind» emphasizing the universalism of the church in Christ.

The sacraments in general are treated by Jenson as «mysteries of communion» in accordance with the New Testament understanding of the mystery uniting Christ and his Church.

Standing as a permanent sacrament of Pentecost, the Church draws the world forward out of the old city and into the new and eternal city of truth.

As business / charitable activities has led me into relationships with the Eastern Orthodox Church, Father P ***, Bish S **** introduced as Father («call no man father») as well as church leaders I see very ill informed laiety (some exceptions), with a biblical worldview supplanted by a cultural denominational world view.The concept of Grace is overwhelmed by works, sacraments, membershiAs business / charitable activities has led me into relationships with the Eastern Orthodox Church, Father P ***, Bish S **** introduced as Father («call no man father») as well as church leaders I see very ill informed laiety (some exceptions), with a biblical worldview supplanted by a cultural denominational world view.The concept of Grace is overwhelmed by works, sacraments, membeChurch, Father P ***, Bish S **** introduced as Father («call no man father») as well as church leaders I see very ill informed laiety (some exceptions), with a biblical worldview supplanted by a cultural denominational world view.The concept of Grace is overwhelmed by works, sacraments, membershias Father («call no man father») as well as church leaders I see very ill informed laiety (some exceptions), with a biblical worldview supplanted by a cultural denominational world view.The concept of Grace is overwhelmed by works, sacraments, membershias well as church leaders I see very ill informed laiety (some exceptions), with a biblical worldview supplanted by a cultural denominational world view.The concept of Grace is overwhelmed by works, sacraments, membershias church leaders I see very ill informed laiety (some exceptions), with a biblical worldview supplanted by a cultural denominational world view.The concept of Grace is overwhelmed by works, sacraments, membechurch leaders I see very ill informed laiety (some exceptions), with a biblical worldview supplanted by a cultural denominational world view.The concept of Grace is overwhelmed by works, sacraments, membership.

In his recap of the visit, he urged the Church «to re-propose the sacrament of matrimony as a gift and indissoluble commitment between a man and a woman, the natural environment for the welcoming and education of children.»

The church historically has understood marriage as a sacrament, an adventure into impossible commitment which has divine sanction, encouragement and blessing.

(According to the Rev. James Pike, Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Episcopal Church is now engaged in the development of a programme of education from the cradle to the grave, as a part of which its clergy is being systematically trained, at the College of Preachers in Washington, in «relational theology,» an application of the l - Thou relation to sacrament, grace, and redemption, conceived in relational terms, primarily in the family.

In contrast, the Christian Church regards baptism as a sacrament, that means that God acts during baptism.

As we discuss the sacraments let us recognize that the language of the Church has sacramental character.