Sentences with phrase «primordial sacrament»

Furthermore, «in the primordial awareness of the nuptial meaning of the body... there is constituted a primordial sacrament understood as a sign that transmits effectively in the visible world the invisible mystery.»

[23] In the eschaton, the body as the primordial sacrament, will give way to the divine prototype; the union of the sexes is not man's end all and be all, it is only an icon of the end all and be all.

Over against what he perceives to be Weigel's giving too much away to Protestant ideas of communion as personal friendship and encounter, Cavadini reasserts the sacramental priority of grace as grounded in the connection between Christ as primordial sacrament and the church as sacrament (the Totus Christus).

It is the «primordial sacrament».

Christ is the primordial Sacrament of creation.

So marriage is, for Christians, the primordial sacrament, the sacrament that's most deeply the visible sign of the presence of God or personal logos in the world.

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If the liturgy is the principal manifestation of God's worldly presence, then it is, by that fact, the primordial place of God's glory, the ongoing event of transfiguration, the sacrament of beauty.

In The Analogical Imagination I tried to rethink the traditional Christian theological dialectic of sacrament and word as the more primordial religious dialectic of «manifestation» and «proclamation.»