Sentences with phrase «as a sacrament»

As Evangelicals and Catholics, we do not agree on the status of marriage as a sacrament of the Church.

This view follows from Thatcher's core Christian vision of marriage as a sacrament and the appropriate arena for child - rearing.

It is part of the hope of the Christian faith that there will always be a believing people, though not necessarily in - creasing in number, and that the Church as the sacrament of the salvation of the world will continue in existence.

The point at which the Eucharistic liturgy takes on this specifically «married» character is also the point at which it is most clearly seen as a sacrament of unity.

Hellenistic Christianity saw baptism as a sacrament of dying and rising, thus sharing in the experience and destiny of the crucified and risen Lord.

Though he devotes the first chapter to «Marriage as Sacrament in the Roman Catholic Tradition,» Witte's analysis concentrates principally on the medieval centuries and concludes with some brief remarks on the marriage legislation of the Council of Trent in 1563.

My fourth and final statement under historical - metaphorical - sacramental approach to scripture also leads to my conclusion, seeing the Bible as sacrament of the sacred.

Nobody wants to see frequent Holy Communion disappear from the lives of Catholics, but it is equally necessary that Holy Communion should once again be understood as a sacrament to be received with due preparation, in a state of grace, and in a state of life that accords with the teaching of Christ and the Church.

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

My central claim, both today and tomorrow, is that being a Christian is primarily about a relationship with God lived within the Christian tradition as a sacrament — a claim to which I will return at the end of this talk.

And in point of fact, in the creation narratives in the first two chapters of Genesis, we find one created being who is constituted in his creation by God as a sacrament.

Members of the Church of the Universe believe that smoking marijuana brings followers closer to God and use the drug as a sacrament.

Bonhoeffer presents a Lutheran view of Christ as sacrament.

There are two elements in this passage which tell us that man is constituted as a sacrament right at the outset.

First synthesized by a Canadian chemist in 1931, DMT is the primary active ingredient of ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic tea ingested as a sacrament by Amazonian Indians and by members of two churches in Brazil.

Wisest: Richard Beck with «Social Media as Sacrament» [The comment section is also definitely worth a read]

Baptism has long been recognized as the sacrament of equality (Gal.

If you truly believe that marriage is god's intention as a sacrament or religious rite, that's fine.

A liturgical order of prayer exists because prayer as such exists, the former does not create the latter, but on the contrary presupposes it, in the same way as sacraments exist only because there is grace which precedes both ontologically and historically its social (though efficacious) expression in the sacraments.

For the gospel we are commanded to believe has the same efficacy as a sacrament: It gives what it signifies to those who receive it in faith.

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.

Traditional Catholicism sees the act of paedobaptism as a sacrament that infuses grace upon the participant.

As a result, they did not recognize healing or the burial of the dead as sacraments, despite their acceptance by the church during its first 12 centuries.

However, this alone is not enough to constitute man as a sacrament, because a sacrament is not just a sign, a sacrament is an outward or material sign.

So I conclude by returning to this theme of Christianity as a sacrament of the sacred — as a tradition that mediates the reality of God to us — and the Bible as a collection of stories that invites us to see in a particular way, to see reality in a certain way, and to see our own lives in a certain way.

That wide embrace of the universe as a sacrament of God is nourished by the pentecostal poetry of Psalm 104.

The number of sacraments has not been constant in the history of the Church, and there is no reason to believe that even the seven so defined as sacraments are to be considered as equally important.

... it is clear, as the sacraments show, that a Christian does indeed live a tangible and ecclesial life, but that the ultimately Christian thing about this life is identical with the mystery of human existence... To be a Christian is simply to be a human being, and one who also knows that this life which he is living, and which he is consciously living, can also be lived even by a person who is not a Christian explicitly and does not know in a reflexive way that he is a Christian.

We describe holy orders of Bishop, priest, and deacon as a sacrament.

Their participation is an expression of their married state precisely as a sacrament, as an imaging of the relationship between Christ and the Church.

Like the Rastafarians in Jamaica, who worship the Sacred Herb, and the Native American Churchians, who experience the Holy Cactus as a sacrament, here at the Natural Chilehead Cult we prove our faith by the ritual consumption of all - powerful pungent pod eight times a day.

Filmmaker Ti West offers up an opening half hour that essentially plays like a straight documentary, as The Sacrament initially details the protagonists» arrival at the aforementioned commune and their exploits within (eg Sam chats with several longtime residents, Patrick reunites with his sister, etc).

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

Most Christians don't view marriage as a sacrament, but for those who do, I think they should think about what you're saying.

It is seen as a sacrament in the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches and is administered by a bishop when a child reaches the» age of reason» or early adolescence.

I move into this by very briefly contrasting Bible as sacrament, with two ways of seeing the Bible that dominated modernity.

my belief system calls for me to use marijuana as a sacrament.

Instead, he argues that marriage should be viewed as a sacrament in the sense that it expresses «divine love.»

Ultimately this leads to a vision of the Christian life as a relationship with God as mediated through the Christian tradition as sacrament.

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

After two weeks of hearings, on Monday February 7, 2011, Ontario Superior Court Judge Thea Herman found that the church members in question of the Church of the Universe who uses the drug as a sacrament and believe that smoking marijuana brings followers closer to God, are not protected from criminal charges because of their beliefs.

Where this imagery of Eucharist as marriage is most clear, is also the point at which the Eucharist is most transparently seen as a sacrament of unity.