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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Sacrament"”.
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A Reevaluation of the Croxton Play of the Sacrament
… paper, then, is to reevaluate the Play of the Sacrament using the text to answer criticism which has been generally unfavorable. The majority of critics find a lack of moral purpose in the play due to an abundance of the grotesque. However, the presence of so much Christian Doctrine, …
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The virtue and the sacrament of penance in adolescent personality growth
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The persistence of penance : evangelical alternatives for the sacrament of penance.
… Anabaptist alternatives for the functions of the sacrament of penance. It makes use of normative documents that guided the medieval practice of penance, the theological writings of Protestant reformers, and legislation that governed church–state institutions of discipline. It follows the evolution …
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Becoming Catholic: Story, Sacrament, Conversion and the Emergence of Faith in Postconciliar Autobiographies
… and read through the dual lens of Story and Sacrament, evidence an emergent process of conversion, of "becoming Catholic" in the modern American milieu.
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Sacrament of Deification: The Eucharistic Vision of Alexander Schmemann in Light of the Doctrine of Theosis
… in his categorizations of the Eucharist as the Sacrament of the World, the Sacrament of the Church, the Sacrament of the Kingdom, and the Sacrament of Deification. The investigation also explores the contributions of prominent theologians of the Western tradition, whose work led to ecclesial and …
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The Future of the Sacrament of Penance: An African Reconciliatory Paradigm in the Light of Karl Rahner's Theology of Penance
… culture and Karl Rahner’s theology of the sacramentality of the Church, this doctoral thesis opens a debate about the kind of renewal required to revitalise the dwindling practice of sacramental confession. The Second Vatican Council, in which the German Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner played …
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Anointing as the Iconic Interruption of the Loving God
The Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick has traditionally been conceived within pre-modern conceptual categories and the supporting structure or worldview of Aristotelian metaphysics. Postmodern sacramental theology suggests a reflexive reformulation, one that no longer sees the world as the …
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The theology and pastoral practice of penance in Tertullian
… and lose their original meaning or intent. The sacrament of penance as practiced and understood today would not be recognisable to a primitive Christian from the early centuries, but does it reflect the same faith? This work hopes to offer the reader a closer look at two of Turtillian's work …
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Models of Confession: Penitential Writing in Late Medieval England
… project examines the medieval practice of the sacrament of penance and the innovative ways in which medieval literature engaged with the pastoral project of the Catholic church to provide the penitent with a way to deal with sin. Drawing from medieval literature, religious writing and …
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St. Thomas More's Treatice to Receave the Blessed Body of Our Lorde: An Edition
… last works, A Treatise to Receive the Blessed Sacrament. That the subject was dear to his heart was attested to by a life of devotion to this Sacrament as a private Englishman and also as a public controversialist. But a person might be pardoned for wondering why this Treatise has received so …
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Trilectic of Testimony: A Phenomenological Construal of the Eucharist as Manifestation-Proclamation-Attestation
… thesis seeks to revolutionize thinking the sacrament, in particular the Eucharist. Instead of construing the Eucharist in terms of substance or symbol, the Eucharist is construed phenomenologically as manifestation-proclamation-attestation. In this way, the particular emphases of Catholic …
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Ayahuasca’s Religious Diaspora in the Wake of the Doctrine of Discovery
… Brazil began employing the mixture as religious sacrament. Additionally, various centers for ayahuasca “healing” have emerged both inside and outside of the Amazon Rainforest, frequently with the aim of helping people addicted to other substances. As interest grew, ayahuasca use in South America …
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The sacramental theology and practice of the Reverend John Willison (1680-1750)
… whose prolific writing had a pronounced sacramental emphasis, at a time when the Lord's Supper was infrequently celebrated. The thesis aims to examine his sacramental theology and practice. Chapter one reconstructs his 'roots' and considers the influence of family, home church and …
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Experiences of Sacramental Marriage
… experiences approaching marriage as a religious sacrament. The eight couples represented a purposeful sample selected using the following criteria: (a) They self-identified as having a sacramental marriage within the Roman Catholic tradition; (b) they appeared to be information rich sources who …
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The Elusive End of the Rainbow: A (Queer) Rhetorical Analysis of Rainbow Sash Rhetoric
… the Church's most definitive ritual: the sacrament of the Eucharist. Thus, the public rhetoric generated about sash wearing by sash wearers, non-sash-wearing lay Catholics, and the clergy respectively represent ideologically-driven attempts to make sense of the queered sacrament. On the …
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Developing an Awareness of the Demonic in Biblical Counseling, in Conversation With William Perkins
… enemy through the ordinary means of grace—Word, sacrament, and prayer—and eschewing a deliverance or ekballistic response to the demonic. Finally, Perkins’s demonology, as the foundation of Puritanism, is contrasted with Jay Adams’s demonology, as the foundation of the contemporary biblical …
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The Kingdom of Spain as an allegory of Christ's Kingdom in five autos by Calderón
… literary genre unique to Spain: the auto sacramental. Until recently, such plays have suffered a lack of critical attention, possibly due to their complicated theological focus. Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681), the master of this genre, is the author of nearly eighty of these …
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Whole-Earth consciousness in Maximus the Confessor, Nicholas of Cusa, and Teilhard de Chardin: seeds for a 21st century sacramental creation spirituality and ecological ethics
… cosmology and evolution, and advocating for a sacramental creation spirituality, oftentimes supported by fresh readings of earlier Christian writings. This dissertation looks at Maximus the Confessor (c.580-662 CE), Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464 CE), and Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955 CE). …
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