Sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church celebrate something, and that something is to do with God’s love and grace, experienced and related to one’s own story. (CCRS notes). Vatican II’s desire was to restore the sacraments back to the centre of Church life.…
The creation account is significant to the Christian worldview because it tells them were they came from. It tells them where original sin came from and how they have become who they are.…
This was all too similar to the contradiction of the past through the Ten Articles of 1536. Despite the continuing dissolution of the monasteries, Henry appeared to make an ambiguous move that both supported and opposed Catholicism. Within the Ten Articles there were three sacraments and judging by the fact that traditionally there are seven, one would assume a reform from conventional Catholic doctrine. However, the three sacraments that were quoted were intrinsically Catholic, such as transubstantiation and prayers for the…
Catholic authorities began affirming the beliefs of Catholicism. Authorities stated faith and good works were necessary in order to achieve salvation. They had also stated they believed in transubstantiation, where the bread and wine would turn into the body and blood of Christ during consecration. Catholic authorities had acknowledged the 7 sacraments and Ideas such as monasticism, celibacy of the clergy, and purgatory. The Pope’s teachings were infallible and the Pope continued to interpret scripture for the people. Reaffirming Catholic beliefs was an important process because it allowed people to see the…
Keifer invites the church to ponder the eternal, mysterious significance of the baptism. “The community into which we are baptized is not fundamentally an institution but an event, and the event is founded on the person action of the triune God. We are baptized not simply into a human community, but into the risen Christ and the indwelling of the Spirit.” The infinite paradox of God’s grace through the sacraments as well as the catechumenate reminds the baptized members that baptism marks just the beginning of one’s Christian…
In the Chapter 2 entitled “Creation”, Plantinga very eloquently describes the Godly Creation. Plantinga’s writes that Jesus - as part of the Holy Trinity - was present at creation. I have never thought about Jesus’ existence prior to His Earthly birth and I found this very thought provoking. Later in the chapter, creation is described. Plantinga explains why God created by stating, “Creation was a way for God to spend Himself” and “From eternity God has had a communal life…
sacramental grace : participation in the life and love of the Trinity that comes to us through the sacraments…
There are three things that spread the Christ-life to us; baptism, belief, and the Lord’s Supper (Lewis 61). This statement, by C.S. Lewis, is his example of three ordinary methods in which one can “find new life after we have died and in it become perfect” (Lewis 60). It was the belief of Lewis that because Jesus sacrificed himself, yet he was perfect, humans can be saved from death. Two of Lewis’s three methods, Baptism and the Lord’s Supper, are sacraments in Christianity. The act of baptizing is known as the Sacrament of Baptism. The Lord’s Supper is also known as Holy Communion and Eucharist. There are several different sacraments which are practiced within the many denominations of Christianity.…
-Jesus is the Primordial Sacrament of the Father. By being the "Primordial Sacrament", Jesus Chriast is much more than simply the originator of the Sacraments. He is at once the SOURCE, the PRIMARY AGENT and the GOAL of all sacramental sctivity.…
A sacrament is a tangible connection between Heaven and Earth along with how God's love and essence is physically here on Earth. Jesus Christ is the essence of God on Earth in human form. He preaches the ideas and serves as the son of God to his kingdom. When people preach, serve, and worship, God's power is present and the people remember what Jesus was all about when he was on Earth and therefore what God was all about. The concept of God is spread through ideas like the Pentecost, Paul and his conversion, and even in the catacombs of Rome.…
In chapter 2, Professor Wright believes that someone’s knowledge of the relationship between God and his world is the foundation to truly understanding biology. People sometimes use terms to refer to the natural world such as cosmos, nature or creation. A naturalistic worldview believes nature came about through evolution. A theistic worldview believes God is the creator. Richard uses Genesis as a great witness to the maker of the world. Creation by his word and wisdom speaks of his great authority over the earth. The creation of life is a great example of God’s Supreme Being. Richard also speaks that creation is in obedience to God, and that the primary purpose of all creation is to bring glory to God. All creation should praise him.…
We know that in the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. Knowing that God is our creator explains to us what our origin is and how things everything was started. As a Christian, my belief is that God is my creator and that all things were created by him.…
Sacraments call our attention to and remind us of a reality of god that is always present, but se may not always realize.…
Sacraments are the Christian rituals that most believers hold dearly. The Baptism and the Eucharist are the two most important sacraments or ordinances in the life of Christians. Baptism is the cleansing with water that is carried out to symbolically accept a new born into the Christian fold. Eucharist or the Lord’s Supper is a symbolic representation of the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ (Stofka,…
D. Lewis explains that Jesus Christ is God, the perfect being; who came to earth in order to pay a debt that mankind can’t pay itself. (53-59)…