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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Sacraments"”.
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Piers Plowman and the Sacraments of Nature
… journey led by grace and participation in the sacraments of the Church. For Hugh of St Victor, a key figure in the history of sacramental theology, all of creation was thought to have some ‘sacramental’ significance that humans might be drawn to interpret mystically or allegorically. This idea …
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Mimicry, Mirroring, Subversion, and Critique: Reading Heterotopia in the Cubicula of the Sacraments
… the spaces commonly called the Cubicula of the Sacraments, five rooms in the Callistus Catacomb in Rome, in light of Michel Foucault's concept of heterotopia. I argue that the Christian communities that created the Cubicula constructed their spaces and construed the symbolic worlds they conjured …
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Sacramental Theology of Elochukwu Uzukwu in Light of Vatican II and Its Application in African Contexts
… the Second Vatican Council’s understanding of sacraments as pneumatological, and ecclesiological, beyond the dominant Christological motif, and its call for profound adaptation gives a wide latitude for rethinking the sacraments. This provision overcomes the danger of enforcing a monocultural …
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Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus: The Relationship between Ecclesiology and Soteriology for Cyprian of Carthage
… did not hold to a works-based salvation, but the sacraments were essential for ecclesial life. At baptism, the Holy Spirit applied Christ’s work upon the cross to believers, so the Christian life officially began at baptism. After baptism, the eucharist subjectively strengthened believers to obey …
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Pastoral care according to the bishops of England and Wales (c.1170 – 1228)
… and confession. As new ideas about these sacraments emerged, even educated bishops fell behind the pace of change. Bishops’ treatments of the sacraments changed significantly across the period as these ideas became established. The ‘wolves’ that threatened the flock were most readily …
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The sign of the ineffable in twentieth century literature.
… of referentiality claimed by the Catholic sacraments—which are said to "accomplish what they signify"—and how imaginative literature operates in the same space semiotically. The work continues by examining novels by four writers (Hemingway, Faulkner, Woolf, and McCarthy), and describing how …
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The Culture of the Good Death in Seventeenth-Century Mexico City
… the Good Death signified the partaking of final sacraments and a courage in facing the end of life where the dying person ultimately liberated his/her soul into the purgatorial afterworld. Most urban subjects understood the basic beliefs and practices of Spanish Catholicism. I show that Mexico …
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The Gawain-Poet and the Textual Environment of Fourteenth-Century English Anticlericalism
… 14th century with heretical positions on the sacraments such as Donatism and Lollardy, this analysis pays close attention to the poet's references to baptism, penance, and the Eucharist, and concludes that, though he embraces clerically administered sacraments as essential elements of the …
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“But how could we sing a song of the Lord in a foreign land?” An ESL/ESP class for Catholic immigrants
… and specialized for Catholic prayer, liturgy, sacraments, and community life, could equip immigrant Catholics to live their faith in English. English Language Teaching (ELT) and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) professionals are encouraged to be more attentive to their …
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The Background of Lamentabili
… Christological Ideations; errors relating to the sacraments; errors concerning the institution and organization of the Church; and errors on the subject doctrinal evolution.~ These questions had been raised in the minus of Christian people, particularly Catholics, by teachers in positions of …
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Discerning the body: a sacramental hermeneutic in literature and liturgy
… known as the Eucharist. In their physicality, sacraments act as reminders that theological concepts, while they systematise experience and knowledge, can never be simply abstract; theology must never forget the particular, discrete nature of human beings, the separation of creatures, the …
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Plaine, simple, short, and profitable’: The Theology of A Short Sum of the Whole Catechism (or Craig’s Catechism) and its Place in Scottish Reformed Catechesis from Geneva to Westminster
… and the Lord’s Prayer; and the sixth, word, sacraments, and soteriology. The conclusion will draw the study together and suggest avenues for further study.
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Homosexuality and the Formation of Conscience: An Examination of Traditional Catholic Anthropological, Theological, and Ethical Evaluations in Light of Contemporary Moral Markers
… in its various manifestations, liturgy and sacraments, spirituality, and eschatology, especially in terms of the nature of resurrected life, to allow for the subjective possibility of same-sex relationships in very selective contexts to allow for full human flourishing and fulfillment of the …
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Roman Catholic Army Chaplains During the First World War : Roles, Experiences and Dilemmas
… as well as the importance of the delivery of the Sacraments), it also argues that the more aggressive attitude and role of the 'home' clergy in France and Belgium was to have a significant influence on the British chaplains. Furthermore, it is argued that some of the reasons previously given for …
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A Communion of Love: The Animating Principle Behind the Christocentric Spirituality of Robert Murray M’Cheyne
… the means of grace, specifically God’s Word, the sacraments, and prayer. Chapter 7 examines M’Cheyne’s preaching of Christ. His sermons exalted Christ, focusing on Christ as our Surety, Savior, and Judge. Chapter 8 shows M’Cheyne’s dedication to evangelism through his work with children, method of …
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"For Reformation and Uniformity": George Gillespie (1613-1648) and the Scottish Covenanter Revolution
… the central role of God's Word and the sacraments in the worship of God and stressed the importance of cultivating personal piety. At the heart of Gillespie's political thought lay the Melvillian theory of the two kingdoms, which led him to reject Erastianism as subordinating the church …
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A theology of persecution and Christian endurance: Cain, Abel, and a ‘Black Book of Acts’ among the St. Thomas Moravians, 1732-1740
… and their ability to endure. It regards the sacraments of baptism and the Lord’s supper as key elements in the community’s ability to endure marginalisation, discrimination, and violence for their Christian faith, and in doing innovates toward a Theology of Persecution and Christian Endurance …
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Evangelical Ecclesiology and Liturgical Reform in the Edwardian Reformation, c. 1545-1555
… of church services, especially through the sacraments and by observing the Sabbath. The examination of the relationship of mid-Tudor evangelical ecclesiology and liturgical reform presented in this thesis allows us to understand the Edwardian Church on its own terms. It challenges some …
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"We are the church": the Romanization of United Methodism, 1945-1988
… theology. Cushman emphasized liturgy and sacraments and supported the process of liturgical reform. This subject of this dissertation begins with Methodist merger in 1939 and ends with the publication of the 1988 United Methodist Hymnal. Divided chronology into periods that correspond with …
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Theological and Ecological Foundations for Youth Ministry in Relation to the Archdiocese of Mbarara, Uganda - East Africa
… human response to God's initiative through the sacraments, prayer and committed lives. </p><p> Ecological foundations as presented in this dissertation aim at illuminating God's handiwork in the youths' own physical, spiritual, psychological and social human nature; and of their unique …
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