Sentences with phrase «sacramental vision»

It completes this proposed inculturation through a sacramental vision of creation inspired by Karl Rahner's theology of nature and grace.

I am particularly indebted to Tolkien's Sacramental Vision: Discerning the Holy in Middle Earth, by Craig Bernthal, and The Power of The Ring by Stratford Caldecott, for helping to lead me deeper into the Catholic Mystery which shines through the legendarium of Tolkien.

The Catholic sacramental vision in which God offers Himself in finite, intelligible signs, calling for a response of love, unites all the mysteries of faith.

Dana Gioia sharply expresses the sacramental vision proper to the Catholic («The Catholic Writer Today,» December), but is this one that ever found worthy expression in the Catholic writers of the last century?

With the Enlightenment, the sacramental vision of the continuity between the afterlife and everyday life became more deeply ruptured, as William Blake subjectivized heaven and hell, and Tennyson struggled to believe in the soul in a scientific age.

It is a relational, a sacramental vision of the Christian life.

I want in this article to explore a sacramental vision, a kind of «seeing beyond», that is empowered by faith in the God - man who reveals the transcendental attributes of beauty, goodness and truth of the Godhead.

This sacramental vision seems to capture something most of us intuitively feel about marriage but have trouble articulating.

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However, unless that vision is rooted in the sacramental and liturgical realities it proclaims, and in a personal life of the spirit, and unless that formation is translated into action in the moral and social life of the individuals and group, there will be little or no harvest.

Better understanding this «sacramental» vision of the world — one Klassen is convinced underwrites The Canterbury Tales — helps us recover Chaucer from the postmodern irony so often projected onto him.

On the contrary it was the desire of Bonhoeffer to present to the church a new vision in that he wanted the sacramental church to be also a social church without losing its spiritual foundation.

All this is to say that in the Christian vision our human world has a sacramental dimension.

In Fr Nesbitt's article «The Christ - Centred Vision of Creation», in last November's issue, he pointed out that Newman «found the Scotist perspective to be truest to the Greek Fathers he studied so closely» -LCB- Discourses to Mixed Congregations 32,1 - 2, and 358), and that in The Development of Christian Doctrine Newman says that «the Incarnation «establishes in the very idea of Christianity the sacramental principle as its characteristic» because: «It is our Lord's intention in the Incarnation to make us what He is Himself.»

The book also highlights Sayers» theological reflections on secular themes and her vision that all labor, including work as mundane as the making of safety pins, is a sacramental act by which God is both glorified and worshiped.

It is true that Dostoevsky personally assented — despite occasional episodes of doubt — to the creeds of the ancient church, and that he believed deeply in the mystical and sacramental traditions of the Orthodox church, and that in general his vision of things was shaped by traditional Christian understandings of sin and redemption.

I am aiming here to show that — even though it can be enjoyed without any knowledge of Catholicism — his work is deeply imbued with a «sacramental» vision, ie.

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.