Sentences with phrase «sacramental religion»

Karlstadt took refuge in Strassburg and from there and elsewhere Luther received queries from people worried by teaching which radically reinterpreted sacramental religion.

The fact that sacramental religion employs a multitude of symbols, rather than just one, already implies a wholesome conviction that no single concrete object, personality, or event can all by itself correspond completely to the unknown and unnamable mystery.

Sacramental religion's attitude toward the world may be characterized as one of enjoyment.

Christianity is a sacramental religion.

For many television viewers the Mass at Westminster Cathedral was their first experience of sacramental religion.

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This separated religion is man's greatest danger whether it manifests itself in the form of a cult in which sacramental forms are independent of everyday life or of a soul detached from life in devotional rapture and solitary relation with God.

In the Christian Institute for the Study - of Religion and Society there was an open discussion about a proposal that since Christ transcended not only cultures but also religions and ideologies, the fellowship of confessors of faith in Jesus as the Messiah should not separate from their original religious or secular ideological community but should form fellowships of Christian faith in those communities themselves, and that so long as the Law sees baptism as transference from one community to another it should not be made the condition of entry into the fellowship of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper but made a sacramental privilege for a later time (Ref.

Traditionally, an exaggerated mysticism, having lost its connection to the sacramental, silent, and active aspects of religion, has turned our attention toward a spiritual world existing apart from the physical universe.

There is in Bloom's American religion no «sacred canopy,» no civil or public or societal religion, no law - making or ethos - shaping impulse or achievement, no objective witness to the God who orders and constitutes, no communalism, no sacramental element, no socially transforming faith.

What the Jamesian view of religion as personal further obscures is the quintessentially Catholic notion of the church as a «sacramental communion» through which God's life penetrates ours.

To understand the Christianity of this period [Victorian] we must look not only at public symbols of civil religion... but at the sacramental character of the home.

Awareness of all four ways of religion and of their respective temptations allows us to approach the subject of revelation in such a way that in inter-religious dialogue, areas of religious agreement may show up more obviously than when we look only at the obvious sacramental differences.

The «way of silence,» which is likewise an ingredient, at least to some degree, in all religion, is so alert to the inadequacy of any sacramental images of mystery that it sometimes puts them completely aside, intending thereby a radical purification of religious consciousness.

And we articulated the second objection by insisting that a Christian theology of revelation must not be isolated from the revelation of mystery as it occurs in the sacramental, mystical, silent, and active features of other religions as well.

But there is more to any religion than just the sacramental constituent.

Most of the differences among the religions have to do with their understandably one - sided attachment to the particular sacramental images, events, experiences, or persons that they choose as representative of mystery.

In primal religion, revelation has a fundamentally sacramental character.

And finally, if religious activism breaks its ties with sacramental, mystical, and silent religion, it becomes indistinguishable from secular humanism, such as Marxism for example.

The revelations of all the religions have a sacramental character, in that they come to expression in terms of correlative views of the cosmos.

He perceives both religion and poetry as sacramental, incarnational acts.

Hindu, Secular and Christian who have contributed to the Christianization / Humanization of Indian religion, ideology and philosophy in the light of the Crucified Christ, but also the local Christian congregations which in their worship and sacramental life, demonstrated a pattern of corporate life of fellowship, transcending traditional caste division impelled by their new sense of being made brethren through the death of Christ on the Cross.

There is much primitive psychology in religion, and Christianity's sacramental system is a good example.

Sacramental, mystical, and silent religion must also have implications for life in this world.

Simultaneously they relativized the sacramental orientation of early religion by warning of the narrowing effects of idolatrous attachments.

Because of their diverse sacramental features, religions differ considerably from one another in the ways by which they formulate for their followers the fundamental character of this mystery.

This sacramental attachment to nature still lives on as an important layer within many religions.

Without a sacramental component, religion — or religious hope — can easily take flight from our earthiness and from the reality of bodily existence.

Today this bitter tea, also known as hoasca, has become the sacramental ritual of two modern religions in Brazil; one of them, the União do Vegetal (UDV) church, has invited McKenna, an expert on psychoactive plants, and other research teams, to scrutinise this sacred brew.