sacramental nature

Other times they come from people who have no understanding of the sacramental nature of the Church.

Nor did it always have the sacramental nature we now attach to it in a Christian context.

Many couples want to be married in Church but have lost regular contact with the parish community and fail to understand the sacramental nature of marriage.

A third time then, in 1986, Schillebeeckx' theological views were put into question, again regarding the sacramental nature of office in the Roman Catholic Church.

In the 16th century, various groups adhering to the Protestant Reformation denied in different degrees the sacramental nature of most Catholic sacraments.

The Anglo-Catholic tradition within Anglicanism identifies more with the Roman Catholic position about the sacramental nature of ordination.

First, the "one baptism for the remission of sins" article of the Creed is an affirmation of the general sacramental nature of the Church.

In its sacramental nature, marriage transfigures and transcends both fleshly union and contractual legal association: human love is being projected into the eternal Kingdom of God.

However, he said, "clericalism also can be found in those forms of lay leadership which do not sufficiently take into account the transcendental and sacramental nature of the church.

Latin rituals for ordaining deaconesses exist from as late as the 10th century, but the precise sacramental nature of these ordinations has not yet been determined authoritatively.

It is not an easy way of living, since one must accept the sacramental nature of life and the communion of Love as the source of one's direction in life.

But Beuys retained a traditional reverence for the sacramental nature of food, to the extent that some of his works recall the religious symbolism of those earlier still lifes.

Zwingli's civic-minded approach to reform distinguished itself in many ways from Luther's more abstract theologising, but the fundamental break came over the sacramental nature of the Lord's Supper.

In piety as well as scholarship, Kirk followed in the tradition of the Oxford Movement, emphasizing the sacramental nature of the Catholic Church and apostolic succession.

The debates take on an almost sacramental nature as speakers resort to the most basic metaphors of reproduction and renewal in a search for the rites of an inner city spring (Goldberg, 1990).

According to Ainsworth, its size and "the sacramental nature of its subject would have been appropriate for a family chapel in a church or monastery for the chapel of a guild corporation."

Reasons given were the Church's determination to remain faithful to its constant tradition, its fidelity to Christ's will, and the iconic value of male representation due to the "sacramental nature" of the priesthood.

Furthermore, the necessity of the ministerial priesthood, grounded in apostolic succession, is at times obscured and the sacramental nature of the Eucharist is reduced to its mere effectiveness as a form of proclamation.

The title was conferred in recognition of Henry's book Assertio Septem Sacramentorum (Defense of the Seven Sacraments), which defended the sacramental nature of marriage and the supremacy of the Pope.

And so, in talking about the shortage of clergy, he immediately heads for the essential: "The sacramental nature of the church needs to be sustained, and this means providing a sufficient number of ordained ministers who can celebrate the eucharist."

It is therefore appropriate that he goes on to discuss an artist, Eric Gill, and David Jones, artist and poet, who reflected on the sacramental nature of work, and most profoundly on the liturgy as the Opus Dei.

Flint claims that the mores danico union of Edith and Harold is legitimate from a Catholic perspective, arguing that "The changes confirming the Sacramental nature of Christian marriage had only recently been promulgated from Rome."

The document, The Ecclesiological and Canonical Consequences of the Sacramental Nature of the Church, has been produced by a commission of Orthodox and Catholic bishops and theologians that met in Ravenna in western Italy last month.

The religion accepts the Apostles' Creed, believes in the sacramental nature of Holy Communion and baptism, considers the Bible as the authority of the Word of God, the next coming of Christ and the gifts of the Holy Spirit.