Sentences with phrase «defined as sacraments»

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Fundamentalism uses the culture, rituals, sacraments, texts, language, and metaphors and allusions and symbols (verbal, visual, musical, etc.) of religion in blind adherence to a dogma as defined and interpreted by a person or group who is self - aggregating and self - justifying raw personal power for the sole purpose of controlling the lives of others.

The only things to exclude from professional theological education are the preparations to preach, arrange liturgies, administer the sacraments, and fill the role of institutional leader as each denomination defines that role.

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

St. Augustine defines a sacrament as the outward and visible sign of an inward and invisible grace; but he does not lose sight of the community of believers as the mediator of grace, nor should we, even though our doctrine of the relation of grace to the visible Church may declare considerably more freedom for the Holy Spirit than is the case in some traditions.

The other is to define being a Christian in terms extraneous to moral qualities, as by right beliefs or church membership or faithful observance of the sacraments or some metaphysical change assumed to be wrought by conversion.

Various historical confessions clearly define the church as the locus of the Word of God, the place where the scriptures are faithfully proclaimed, and the sacraments duly administered.

St. Thomas Aquinas defines a sacrament as: «The sign of a sacred thing in so far as it sanctifies people» — «Signum rei sacrae in quantum est sanctificans homines» (ST.III, q. 60, a. 2).

Elsewhere the end is defined as the preaching of the gospel and the administration of the sacraments; or, again, as the development of the life of prayer and worship.

Dionysius defines a hierarchy as «a sacred order, a state of understanding and an activity approximating as closely as possible to the divine... It reaches out to grant every being, according to merit, a share of light and then through a divine sacrament, in harmony and in peace, it bestows on each of those being perfected its own form.»

Augustine defined a sacrament as a «visible form of invisible grace».

In the opening chapter of the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium, the Church is defined as the «sacrament... of the unity of the whole human race,» that is to say, the sign and instrument by which human beings are united in authentic communion with God and with one another.

However, it seems that a lot of people want to dismiss just this «word and sacrament» ministry, as useless, just the thing that specifically defines the church.

If «ministry» narrowly defined is «word and sacrament ministry», the thing the church is specifically called to do, as opposed to all other service, which we also provide in our secular callings of all kinds, then we have narrowed it down to something.

Preaching, conducting public worship, and administering the sacraments constituted only a part of the pastoral office as it was defined in the post-Reformation years.