Sentences with phrase «medieval penitential»

By loosening the hold of the medieval penitential system, the Reformers created a space in which Christians were free to follow the dictates of their own conscience.

It seems like the medieval penitential system in multicultural dress — except that at MTS sinners are offered no clear practice of penance that can lead to absolution and reincorporation into the community.

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The penitential cloud of late medieval - Reformation worship continued to build in the neo-orthodox decades.

The tranquil mood projected by The Young Saint John the Baptist is a far cry from the haggard, penitential standing Baptist carved by Donatello a century and a half earlier in a static, pictorially oriented, late - medieval realist idiom.

Similarly, the Reformers could hardly escape the penitential coloration of late medieval worship, with its obsession with Good Friday rather than Easter Sunday.

First, those who imagine that behavior modification techniques are a twentieth century innovation may have forgotten how prevalent some behaviorist assumptions have been in the Christian tradition generally, and particularly in the early medieval monastic and penitential traditions.