Sentences with phrase «sacramental system»

But that can only mean something like an incarnation and a sacramental system.

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

We wholeheartedly reject the claim that Jesuits, least of all St. Ignatius, are inherently prone to instrumentalize the Church's sacramental system.

He then went on to speak of the sacramental system - especially the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist - and the teaching of the Church as part of the continuing Unity - Law in its provision for mankind until the Law reaches its final perfection with the Second Coming.

All sacramental systems lend themselves to two uses — they can be either supports to a genuinely spiritual faith or substitutes for moral character and conduct in seeking the divine favor.

Not exact matches

We present Christianity en masse, a great system with all our beliefs, our institutions, our sacramental customs, our ethical ideals in one solidified whole.

The sacramental principle, in which created matter and form can be apprehended in some authentic way as images of God, and as ways towards union with Him, is fundamental to the Catholic and Orthodox attitude to art, whereas the Protestant theological system relies on the priority of the word over the image as the medium through which God communicates Himself to us, and by means of which we apprehend Him.

In the setting of the Indian legal system in which each religious community is recognized as having its own personal law of civil relations, change from one community to another is a legal act, and baptism is a transfer from one legal community to another rather than a sacramental act expressing personal faith.