Sentences with phrase «sacramental imagination»

The Liturgy as a counter-cultural school is neglected, and the «sacramental imagination» — while properly lauded as a privileged Catholic contribution — is more a timeless perspective on nature and human life than an awareness of how we continue to hear, see, feel and taste the Word spoken into our world 2,000 years ago.

The Catholic sacramental imagination can indeed mediate between faith and culture but we should not always expect to find the process, nor the words which must be used, affirming or soothing.

Given the centrality of the proposals of Catholic Modernity and Sacramental Imagination, while a number of important things are said regarding the breadth of resources and the retrieval of Catholic memory, the fundamental meaning of both of these terms remains somewhat ambiguous and little reference is made to actual resources such as the documents of Vatican II, the Catechism and the General Directory for Catechesis.

Without directly addressing this and changing (challenging) it with a contrary vision of truth, culture, revelation, and faith, the concepts of Catholic Modernity and Sacramental Imagination can themselves be simply absorbed by the secular relativist mind that they are seeking to engage with and ultimately overcome.

In this context OTWTL proposes «Sacramental Imagination» as the key to Catholicising the philosophy and culture of modernity.

Suddenly, you might say, he discovered the sacramental imagination.

Dr Dudley Plunkett FAITH Magazine March - April 2008 The Heythrop Institute Study On the Way to Life [1] argues for a «Catholic sacramental imagination» as a response to the «turn to the subject» that is characteristic of contemporary culture.

This article considers how we might understand «Catholic sacramental imagination» differently in its relevance to the concerns of «Catholic education, catechesis and formation» featured in the Study's subtitle.

Many of his novels are profoundly Catholic without being pious, cloying, or sentimental — literary gems shaped by a Catholic sacramental imagination that is both unyielding and redemptive.

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Other details, however, invoke the imagination and lead towards a fuller sacramental interpretation.

The sacramental life offers an entry into the supernatural reality which assists in forming the imagination.

If the imagination and intellect are impoverished of experiences and images from the natural world, the sacramental experience itself would be diminished.

The sacramental life of religious people to this day carries with it metaphors (such as the dying and rising of a god) that owe their original meaning to the religious imaginations of our forbears of the early agricultural period.