Sentences with phrase «supper as sacraments»

I am not a Catholic but a Protestant; yet I regard Baptism and the Lord's Supper as sacraments according to the German reformers Luther and Bonhoeffer.

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But the sense of the sacraments as sign - acts through which God acts here and now to accomplish his own purposes seems strangely absent in most baptisms and celebrations of the Lords Supper.

The author challenges traditional Christian thinking about the Lord's supper as a «sacrament» to be set apart from secular eating and drinking.

In the Christian Institute for the Study - of Religion and Society there was an open discussion about a proposal that since Christ transcended not only cultures but also religions and ideologies, the fellowship of confessors of faith in Jesus as the Messiah should not separate from their original religious or secular ideological community but should form fellowships of Christian faith in those communities themselves, and that so long as the Law sees baptism as transference from one community to another it should not be made the condition of entry into the fellowship of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper but made a sacramental privilege for a later time (Ref.

It is variously known as the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, or Holy Communion, or the Eucharist, or the Mass..

The manner of it becomes dearer when we consider the sacraments of Baptism and the Eucharist (the Holy Communion or Lord's Supper, or, as it is called in some Western churches, the Mass).

To discern the body of Christ in mutual ministry is as crucial as discerning the body in the partaking of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper.

The church's witness to the reign of God is crucial but also provisional, for the mystery of God is beyond all domestication, as evidenced in Barth's radical rethinking of baptism and the Lord's Supper as witness to something from on high rather than as the established «sacraments» of Christendom.