Sentences with phrase «by liturgical»

For St Thomas the nature of the Real Presence (as Christ's glorified not histraumatised body) means that the only way in which Christ as victim is present in the strong sense is through the symbolism generated by the liturgical action.

If womanist theological method is informed by a liturgical intent, then womanist theology will he relevant to (and will reflect) the thought, worship, and action of the black church.

Up there with the best of the analyses of this phenomenon is Frank C. Senn's ««Worship Alive»: An Analysis and Critique of «Alternative Worship Services»» in the May 1995 issue of Worship, a journal published by Liturgical Press in Collegeville, Minnesota.

I myself was extremely surprised to find that in contemporary Buddhism, a much more central role is played by its liturgical and cultic elements.

For the preaching occasion he prepares himself to address the congregation on a subject suggested by circumstance, or dictated by liturgical calendar, or selected by him for one or more reasons.

Here is an area that awaits to be enriched jointly by liturgical renewal and church renewal.

This was reinforced by a view of the Christian life as a process of discipleship fueled by liturgical continuity and sacramental efficacy.

These are valid criticisms of a good deal that has been done by the liturgical commissions set up by Christian communions.

Because the Trinity is a living reality that embraces us, and no mere abstract doctrine, we are not bound by the liturgical formulations of the past.

Liturgy, issued bimonthly by the Liturgical Conference (810 Rhode Island Avenue, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20018), is scarcely known among American Protestants, though both publication and conference are fully ecumenical.

For example, many of the techies I spoke with told me that they are baffled by liturgical practices they see in their parishes.

It presupposes a sound formation in the fullness of the Catholic faith, nourished by the liturgical and sacramental life of the Church.

But I am reticent about the appointment of sentiment by a liturgical calendar; I do not want anyone to tell me how to feel.

Not exact matches

Ross sees the low liturgies of many evangelical congregations as based on the idea that you can emphasize liturgical order or the regeneration brought about by the Holy Spirit, but not both.

Furthermore, those already suspicious of the excesses of Finney and Whitefield are unlikely to be persuaded otherwise by Ross's discussion of their role in the formation of evangelical liturgical practices.

Ross offers a defense of evangelical liturgical practices (perhaps better described as «norms,» actually) by putting Catholic scholar Aidan Kavanagh into conversation with Anglican theologian John Webster.

Thus an evangelical Catholic approach to liturgy is not somewhere «between» the approaches favored by traditionalists and liturgical progressives, but ahead of the curve of the now - tiresome Liturgy Wars.

He is now Ustin, a cemetery - dwelling ecstatic, beaten and adored by villagers with near liturgical repetition.

In this engagement with Scripture, Evangelicals and Catholics are learning from one another: Catholics from the Evangelical emphasis on group Bible study and commitment to the majestic and final authority of the written word of God; and Evangelicals from the Catholic emphasis on Scripture in the liturgical and devotional life, informed by the lived experience of Christ's Church through the ages.

Isaiah 11, it should be noted, is read by Christians in Advent, the liturgical season that leads up to Christmas.

For 2011, resolve to be here now, and to serve yourself, but do it in this most excellent way: by cultivating silence and overcoming time within one of the classic disciplines of daily prayer» where the pulse of the psalms calms the breath, the pockets of silence center the spirit, and the liturgical calendar frees us from the shackles of time.

Rekindling the Christic Imagination: Theological Meditations on the New Evangelization, by Robert P. Imbelli (Liturgical Press): For those who've watched (as every sentient Catholic should have watched) Father Robert Barron's Catholicism series, here's the next step — a theologically rich, entirely accessible walk through the great themes of Evangelical Catholicism, keyed to four masterpieces of Christian art.

On a busy Sunday the air is especially torn by discord, with different liturgical languages competing for the loudest as well as the last word.

The curriculum of the seminary should be determined by and reflect the liturgical life of the church, for the most promising way to reclaim the integrity of theological language as the working language for a congregation is for seminaries to make liturgy the focus of their lives.

Program and liturgical functions such as preaching were cited by the remaining third as providing the greatest satisfaction.

If that negation of human works (and by implication of all human structure and conduct) is what Christianity is, then morality, tradition, authority, the Church, sanctification, discipleship, liturgical order, and even dogma are secondary at best.

Since the book demonstrates so powerfully the case for the return to the pre-Conciliar liturgy, Fr Joseph Fessio, S.J., Editor - in - Chief, Ignatius Press has to temper his own enthusiastic Forward by putting the position of «those who advocate a rereading and restructuring of the liturgical renewal intended by the Second Vatican Council, but in light of the Church's two - thousand - year tradition.»

In a modest eighty - seven pages (followed by Appendices on liturgical colours, vestments, objects used in worship, and the use of Latin in the liturgy), Rev. Peter Stravinskas covers every detail of the Mass from the Entrance to the Concluding Rites with facts and explanations, often surprising, about the Scriptural origins and contemporary celebration of the Eucharistic liturgy.

Revelation — Scripture and Tradition as interpreted by the Apostolic Succession — takes us a step further by placing the male / female relationship in a liturgical context.

And if the liturgical movements of the Christian community at some time and place seem not to move or stir, bending no knee, bowing no head, drawing no tear, lifting no heart, the intent of the liturgy is not served by abandoning it.

The «liturgical circle» begins by observing and listening to what the church does and says when it gathers for worship as the primary witness to what Christians believe, moves on to theological reflection on the meaning of these data, and then proceeds to reform worship so as to express these meanings more effectively.

An uninformed minister is threatened by such people and often becomes even more resistant to liturgical change.

By fictitious example: I am OK when Vineyard says «Hey, we are not for everyone», or Calvary Chapel (of Costa Mesa parentage) saying, «Perhaps you would be better off in a more liturgical church.

The Christian tradition of singing the sacred Liturgy, a hallmark of Christian worship from antiquity, has largely been replaced by saying the Liturgical prayers and singing something else.

«At the bottom of this is the humility of the Crucified, which will always be contrasted by the great powers of the world, but which generates a real hope that is manifested in the creative vitality of the Church: in her communities and her movements, in the new responsibility of the laity, in ecumenical relations, in liturgical and spiritual experiences.

Speaking personally, it means the grievous loss of something about Catholic observance which always used enormously to impress me as a non-Catholic: the spectacle of Catholics keeping their weekday obligations, often at enormous inconvenience to themselves: as an Anglican, for whom any liturgical obligation was essentially a matter of my own whim, this was immensely attractive: there was the sense that Catholics were under obedience, and that their religion was a real force in their lives, one not to be diverted by secular pressures or values.

Secondly, and with a significant leap, she thinks that from this we can understand the role of women within this sacrament, in order to find an official office for women that is recognised by all, with its own liturgical rite and duties described in Canon Law.

In the words of Swiss liturgical theologian J. J. von Allmen, «Christian prayers must not express any statement or wish, but should be controlled by what we know of God's will revealed in Jesus Christ.»

As long as a person preserves his external union with the Church by fulfilling his duties, he may well himself decide in Christian freedom whether he prays better, that is to say with greater faith, hope and love at home or at a liturgical celebration.

The Graduale Parvum, now being completed by the Blessed John Henry Newman Institute of Liturgical Music in Birmingham, offers simple and extremely usable chant Propers in both English and Latin, drawn from a range of authentic Gregorian sources.

this tendency unwittingly by emphasizing the narrowly cultic and liturgical elements in the Christian life to such an extent that the cry for desacralization becomes the inevitable extreme reaction against it.

Laypeople reading Scripture lessons, serving in choirs, providing instrumental music, and performing various liturgical tasks announce that the life of this congregation and its leadership are shared by clergy and laity.

Historians of the Roman liturgy generally reckon the restorations of the Easter Vigil (by Pius XII) and the adult catechumenate (by Vatican II) as two of the signal accomplishments of the twentieth - century liturgical movement.

When speaking about the relation between liturgical and «private» prayer we should not forget that there is also a private prayer of groups (for example a family rosary or a devotion approved by the bishop) which may itself approach in various degrees to liturgical prayer, even to being virtually identical with it, so that there is only a verbal difference between the two.

The principal difficulty with such a service is that innovation can so dissipate form and substance, particularly when planned by persons with little liturgical experience, that the overall experience loses focus or veers too sharply toward subjectivity.

Eastern rites huddle alongside liturgical practices (hardly a peripheral issue in the East) disfigured by rebarbative banality, by hymnody both insipid and heterodox, and by a style of worship that looks flippant if not blasphemous.

For the most part, the revisions of Roman Catholic liturgical books mandated by Vatican II have been completed, save small portions of the Ritual and Pontifical.

The December 25th observance was conducted by the Catholic Church and had nothing to do with the pagan observances (Saturnalia to be precise) Catholics, like the Jews have a liturgical year.

Does a liturgical interest in fermented wine seem authentic when it is not accompanied by a similar liturgical interest in the unleavened loaf?

That is, as an aesthetic object which finds completeness in performance but which is brought into the liturgical frame in order to be broken by a different, but related «language of actions, a language of sounds».