Sentences with phrase «way as sacraments»

A liturgical order of prayer exists because prayer as such exists, the former does not create the latter, but on the contrary presupposes it, in the same way as sacraments exist only because there is grace which precedes both ontologically and historically its social (though efficacious) expression in the sacraments.

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They are my journey with the sacraments, and in many ways with the church as a whole.

One way of expressing the new concepts is to say that God employs the sacraments as a means of giving himself to us just as he uses preaching.

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.

Through the sacraments we were spiritually connected, and knowing this enriched our relationships in a unique way and deeply united us as brothers and sisters within a matter of months.

I move into this by very briefly contrasting Bible as sacrament, with two ways of seeing the Bible that dominated modernity.

If marriage is a sacrament, then the way in which practices that lead to marriage function as liturgies deserves attention.

Let us illustrate this point of view toward which our whole discussion has been moving by looking briefly at the sacraments of the Church, the Christian meeting of death, and the Christian life of active service as expressions of the way which is enclosed in the grace of this kind of community.

The distaste for «presence» that we find in so much modern philosophy, art, and literary criticism is something we need to attend to if we think of the sacraments only as ways in which God becomes present to us.

The Catholic Church teaches that Christ is present in the Eucharist as a causal agent, somehow giving us bodily strength and health, and Catholics» acceptance of that teaching is expressed in the way in which they receive that sacrament, but the doctrine of Christ's bodily presence in the Eucharist is one with which even Catholics today have difficulty, and it would be unrealistic to make it thecentre of the belief that Christ was the Son of God.

elements, by which I mean such things as faith, worship, sacraments, communion with God, the way of salvation, and the hope of eternal life.

Christian acquiescence in this fate can be measured in any number of ways: by the extent to which the Church renounces her inherent «platonism,» thinking and speaking in the language of psychology, sociology, economics, and politics rather than philosophy (metaphysics) and theology; by the tendency to view the Church not first as sacrament transcending political order, but as a mere mediating institution within that order; by the «political» or «clerical» temptation to equate true ecclesial reform with institutional or curial reform.

Peace remained a fundamental Christian aspiration, but ritual and sacrament gave way to persuasion and instruction as the means to achieve it.

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.

In the absence of proof that the God so confidently invoked by the orthodox bishop really exists in the world, perhaps Merrick in his last moments is yet attempting, in his confused way, to «Follow the way by which [others] began,» as Pascal wrote, accepting the sacraments, discipline and consolations of the church and now imitating Christ's death as if he believed in their efficacy.

It was this «juggling», this seemingly magical element that still offended Luther so deeply, and he criticised theological theories, enshrined in such a phrase as ex opere operato, referring in various ways to the automatic realisation of a sacrament when performed correctly by a properly ordained priest, with little or nothing said about the recipient and the faith he should have.

Since sacraments are the way in which the presence of Jesus is maintained in the Church as a whole, the Church's future is dependent upon the way they are performed.

Baptism opens up the way of Christian life: it is completed by the sacrament of confirmation, and then throughout the Christian's life he can receive God's forgiveness through the sacrament of reconciliation, and be fed by the Eucharist: «Priests are stewards of the means of salvation, of the sacraments... not to dispense them according to their own will, but as humble servants for the good of the People of God» (Benedict XVI).14

After a transitional essay «In Favor of Syncretism» (7), there are three informative and challenging essays on the «base communities» (8 - 10), and then three concluding essays (11 - 13) that profoundly explore an alternative way to view the church as «A Sacrament of the Holy Spirit» with «Charism as the Organizing Principle.»

[23] In the eschaton, the body as the primordial sacrament, will give way to the divine prototype; the union of the sexes is not man's end all and be all, it is only an icon of the end all and be all.

[26] The Pope confronts the notion of marriage as the remedium concupiscientiae [27] saying that it must be understood in the integral sense of the scriptures which also teach of the Redemption of the Body and point to the sacrament of matrimony as a way of realizing that Redemption.

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Absolution refers to forgiveness of one's own misdeeds, traditionally received through religious confession and sacrament, but forgiveness can go both ways: for one's own malfeasance as well as one's forgiveness of the same in others.