Sentences with phrase «tradition as a sacrament»

My central claim, both today and tomorrow, is that being a Christian is primarily about a relationship with God lived within the Christian tradition as a sacrament — a claim to which I will return at the end of this talk.

Ultimately this leads to a vision of the Christian life as a relationship with God as mediated through the Christian tradition as sacrament.

Not exact matches

But traditions (e.g., sacraments not found in the Bible) gained force only as explications of what was implicit in Scripture.

First, she claims that the sacrament of ordination to the priesthood would not be threatened since «the unity» of the sacrament resides in the bishop: Scripture gives him the authority to delegate as necessary, and Tradition allows for several grades within the sacrament.

The bulk of this scholarly volume treats the distinctive and different ways that the Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anglican traditions adapted what the author identifies as the medieval model; the Catholic tradition, with its insistence that marriage constitutes a true sacrament of the new dispensation, thus serves as something of a foil for the book's extended argument.

Though he devotes the first chapter to «Marriage as Sacrament in the Roman Catholic Tradition,» Witte's analysis concentrates principally on the medieval centuries and concludes with some brief remarks on the marriage legislation of the Council of Trent in 1563.

Some of our traditions reckon baptism as a sacrament of constitutive importance for Christian existence.

St. Augustine defines a sacrament as the outward and visible sign of an inward and invisible grace; but he does not lose sight of the community of believers as the mediator of grace, nor should we, even though our doctrine of the relation of grace to the visible Church may declare considerably more freedom for the Holy Spirit than is the case in some traditions.

The Pope said «It is my hope that your conversations will bear abundant fruit in the examination of such historically controversial issues as the relationship between Scripture and Tradition, the understanding of baptism and the sacraments, the place of Mary in the communion of the Church, and the nature of oversight and primacy in the Church's ministerial structure.

In the Protestant tradition, Scripture and the two sacraments have been regarded as the primary means of grace through which Christ becomes a reality of life to believers.

The distinctiveness of Christianity from other traditions lies especially in its choice of this particular «sacrament» as central.

Toward the end of Ut Unum Sint, John Paul cites some of the questions that must be addressed in conversation with the communities issuing from the tragic divisions of the sixteenth century: (1) The relationship between Sacred Scripture, as the highest authority in matters of faith, and Sacred Tradition, as indispensable to the interpretation of the Word of God; (2) The Eucharist as the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ, an offering of praise to the Father, the sacrificial memorial and Real Presence of Christ and the sanctifying outpouring of the Holy Spirit; (3) Ordination, as a Sacrament, to the threefold ministry of the episcopate, presbyterate, and diaconate; (4) The Magisterium of the Church, entrusted to the pope and the bishops in communion with him, understood as a responsibility and an authority exercised in the name of Christ for teaching and safeguarding the faith; (5) The Virgin Mary, as Mother of God and Icon of the Church, the spiritual Mother who intercedes for Christ's disciples and for all humanity.

As early as 554 A.D., priests who disclosed confessions were severely punished (William Harold Tiemann and John C. Bush, The Right to Silence: Privileged Communications and the Law [Abingdon, 1983], p. 35) By the close of the ninth century, priests revealing the matter of a confession were deposed and exiled for life (p. 36) In the Catholic tradition, confession is seen as a sacrament that conveys gracAs early as 554 A.D., priests who disclosed confessions were severely punished (William Harold Tiemann and John C. Bush, The Right to Silence: Privileged Communications and the Law [Abingdon, 1983], p. 35) By the close of the ninth century, priests revealing the matter of a confession were deposed and exiled for life (p. 36) In the Catholic tradition, confession is seen as a sacrament that conveys gracas 554 A.D., priests who disclosed confessions were severely punished (William Harold Tiemann and John C. Bush, The Right to Silence: Privileged Communications and the Law [Abingdon, 1983], p. 35) By the close of the ninth century, priests revealing the matter of a confession were deposed and exiled for life (p. 36) In the Catholic tradition, confession is seen as a sacrament that conveys gracas a sacrament that conveys grace.

As I watched, I found myself thinking about how the Church, with the age - old sacrament of confession and the tradition of corporate lament, is equipped to speak powerfully and counter-culturally to this very issue.

Then, if one is religious, you go to your faith community and participate in a marriage ceremony as your tradition dictates and understands that sacrament.

So I conclude by returning to this theme of Christianity as a sacrament of the sacred — as a tradition that mediates the reality of God to us — and the Bible as a collection of stories that invites us to see in a particular way, to see reality in a certain way, and to see our own lives in a certain way.

The Christian traditions to which the authors appeal are primarily Catholic and Calvinist, traditions that respectively view marriage as sacrament or covenant.

Maintaining Trent's fundamental teaching on justification, the sacraments, and the relation between Scripture and tradition is consistent with affirming a more comprehensive and balanced formulation of that teaching as a fruit of serious theological dialogue.

Yet the Reformers combined this radical freedom with the insistence that the new life is lived in the community of the church with its tradition, its scriptural authority and the celebration of the sacraments, for now the church is known as the community which God creates by his grace.

The traditions Gregory Jones explores in Transformed Judgment are grand ones: Aristotelian virtue - centered moral philosophy; Thomism, especially as it elucidates the relation between the sacraments and friendship with God; Trinitarian thought; Wittgenstein's philosophy of language.

I was raised as a devout Roman Catholic, very learned in all the Catholic sacraments, traditions, and prayers.

I was raised as a devout Roman Catholic, very learned in all the Catholic sacraments, traditions, and prayers.