Creation As Sacrament

Author : John Chryssavgis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567680730

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Creation as Sacrament by John Chryssavgis Pdf

John Chryssavgis explores the sacred dimension of the natural environment, and the significance of creation in the rich theological history and spiritual classics of the Orthodox Church, through the lens of its unique ascetical, liturgical and mystical experience. The global ecological crisis affecting humanity's air, water, and land, as well as the planet's flora and fauna, has resulted in manifest fissures on the image of God in creation. Chryssavgis examines, from an Orthodox Christian perspective, the possibility of restoring that shattered image through the sacramental lenses of cosmic transfiguration, cosmic interconnection, and cosmic reconciliation. The viewpoints of early theologians and contemporary thinkers are extensively explored from a theological and spiritual perspective, including countering those who deny that God's creation is in crisis. Presenting a worldview advanced and championed by the Orthodox Church in the modern world, this book encourages personal and societal transformation in making ethical and economic choices that respect creation as sacrament.

Author : Mathai Kadavil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114573335

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The World as Sacrament by Mathai Kadavil Pdf

Sacramentology is one of the few theological disciplines that have undergone tremendous changes in the past. In the background of all these developments, this study aims to look for a paradigm, "the world as sacrament," that encompasses various trends and is relevant to the multi-religious context of contemporary society. The aim of this study is to rediscover this paradigm that existed from the beginning of Christianity. Its main concern is to see the different possibilities it offers for today, as well as observing the different concerns that are present in it. It is done from the perspectives of Latin, Greek and Syrian Christian traditions.

Author : Regis Martin
Publisher : Emmaus Road Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781945125263

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Witness to Wonder: The World of Catholic Sacrament by Regis Martin Pdf

Author : Ilia Delio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1576592014

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A Franciscan View of Creation by Ilia Delio Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Fig
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781623145422

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Belgic Confession by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gordon T. Smith
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830891627

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Evangelical, Sacramental, and Pentecostal by Gordon T. Smith Pdf

Evangelical. Sacramental. Pentecostal. Christian communities tend to identify with one of these labels over the other two. Evangelical churches emphasize the importance of Scripture and preaching. Sacramental churches emphasize the importance of the eucharistic table. And pentecostal churches emphasize the immediate presence and power of the Holy Spirit. But must we choose between them? Could the church be all three? Drawing on his reading of the New Testament, the witness of Christian history, and years of experience in Christian ministry and leadership, Gordon T. Smith argues that the church not only can be all three, but in fact must be all three in order to truly be the church. As the church navigates the unique global challenges of pluralism, secularism, and fundamentalism, the need for an integrated vision of the community as evangelical, sacramental, and pentecostal becomes ever more pressing. If Jesus and the apostles saw no tension between these characteristics, why should we?

Author : Matthew L. Potts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501306563

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Cormac McCarthy and the Signs of Sacrament by Matthew L. Potts Pdf

Although scholars have widely acknowledged the prevalence of religious reference in the work of Cormac McCarthy, this is the first book on the most pervasive religious trope in all his works: the image of sacrament, and in particular, of eucharist. Informed by postmodern theories of narrative and Christian theologies of sacrament, Matthew Potts reads the major novels of Cormac McCarthy in a new and insightful way, arguing that their dark moral significance coheres with the Christian theological tradition in difficult, demanding ways. Potts develops this account through an argument that integrates McCarthy's fiction with both postmodern theory and contemporary fundamental and sacramental theology. In McCarthy's novels, the human self is always dispossessed of itself, given over to harm, fate, and narrative. But this fundamental dispossession, this vulnerability to violence and signs, is also one uniquely expressed in and articulated by the Christian sacramental tradition. By reading McCarthy and this theology alongside postmodern accounts of action, identity, subjectivity, and narration, Potts demonstrates how McCarthy exploits Christian theology in order to locate the value of human acts and relations in a way that mimics the dispossessing movement of sacramental signs. This is not to claim McCarthy for theology, necessarily, but it is to assert that McCarthy generates his account of what human goodness might look like in the wake of metaphysical collapse through the explicit use of Christian theology.

Author : U.S. Catholic Church
Publisher : Image
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307953704

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Catechism of the Catholic Church by U.S. Catholic Church Pdf

Over 3 million copies sold! Essential reading for Catholics of all walks of life. Here it is - the first new Catechism of the Catholic Church in more than 400 years, a complete summary of what Catholics around the world commonly believe. The Catechism draws on the Bible, the Mass, the Sacraments, Church tradition and teaching, and the lives of saints. It comes with a complete index, footnotes and cross-references for a fuller understanding of every subject. The word catechism means "instruction" - this book will serve as the standard for all future catechisms. Using the tradition of explaining what the Church believes (the Creed), what she celebrates (the Sacraments), what she lives (the Commandments), and what she prays (the Lord's Prayer), the Catechism of the Catholic Church offers challenges for believers and answers for all those interested in learning about the mystery of the Catholic faith. The Catechism of the Catholic Church is a positive, coherent and contemporary map for our spiritual journey toward transformation.

Author : Bernard J. Cooke
Publisher : Twenty-Third Publications
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0896225887

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Sacraments & Sacramentality by Bernard J. Cooke Pdf

Cooke reflects on the sacramental liturgies and their relation to love and freedom, reconciliation and concerned service to one another. Includes discussion questions, a bibliography, and an index.

Author : Jose Granados
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813233925

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Introduction to Sacramental Theology by Jose Granados Pdf

Introduction to Sacramental Theology presents a complete overview of sacramental theology from the viewpoint of the body. This viewpoint is supported, in the first place, by Revelation, for which the sacraments are the place where we enter into contact with the body of the risen Jesus. It is a viewpoint, secondly, which is firmly rooted in our concrete human bodily experience, thus allowing for a strong connection between faith and life, creation and redemption. From this point of view, the treatise on the sacraments occupies a strategic role. For the sacraments appear, not as the last of a series of topics (after dealing with Creation, Christ, the Church), but as the original place in which to stand in order to contemplate the entire Christian mystery. This point of view of the body, which resonates with contemporary philosophy, sheds fruitful light on classical themes, such as the relationship of the sacraments with creation, the composition of the sacramental sign, the efficacy of the sacraments, the sacramental character, the role of the minister, or the relationship of the sacrament with the Church as a sacrament. As a result of this approach, the Eucharist takes on a central role, since this is the sacrament where the body of Jesus is made present. The rest of the sacraments are seen as prolongations of the eucharistic body, so as to fill all the time and space of the faithful. This foundation of the theology of the sacraments in eucharistic theology is supported by an analysis of the patristic and medieval tradition. In order to support its conclusions, Introduction to Sacramental Theology examines the doctrine of Scripture (especially St. John and St. Paul), the main patristic and medieval authors (St. Augustine, Hugh of St. Victor, St. Bonaventure, St. Thomas Aquinas), the response of Trent to the protestant challenges, up to modern authors such as Scheeben, Rahner, Ratzinger, or Chauvet, including the teaching of Vatican II about the Church as a kind of sacrament.

Author : Herbert McCabe
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441145734

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The New Creation by Herbert McCabe Pdf

A reissue of McCabe's classic book on the sacraments what it is to live in the Church .

Author : Perry J. Cahall
Publisher : LiturgyTrainingPublications
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Marriage
ISBN : 9781595250407

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The Mystery of Marriage: A Theology of the Body and the Sacrament by Perry J. Cahall Pdf

This remarkable study offers a comprehensive explanation of the Catholic Church’s teaching on the sacrament of marriage. Incorporating the rich insights found in St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body, Dr. Cahall presents a theology of marriage that incorporates the biblical, systematic, pastoral, and historical traditions which have shaped our understanding of this sacrament.

Author : Fred Bahnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451663303

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Soil and Sacrament by Fred Bahnson Pdf

Recounts the author's experiences founding a faith-based community garden in rural North Carolina, and emphasizes how growing one's own food can help readers reconnect with the land and divine faith.

Author : Andrew Wilson
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310536482

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Spirit and Sacrament by Andrew Wilson Pdf

Spirit and Sacrament by pastor and author Andrew Wilson is an impassioned call to join together two traditions that are frequently and unnecessarily kept separate. It is an invitation to pursue the best of both worlds in worship, the Eucharistic and the charismatic, with the grace of God at the center. Wilson envisions church services in which healing testimonies and prayers of confession coexist, the congregation sings When I Survey the Wondrous Cross followed by Happy Day, and creeds move the soul while singing moves the body. He imagines a worship service that could come out of the book of Acts: Young men see visions, old men dream dreams, sons and daughters prophesy, and they all come together to the same Table and go on their way rejoicing. In short, Spirit and Sacrament is an appeal to bring out of the church's storehouse all of its treasures, so that God's people can worship our unrivaled Savior with sacraments and spiritual gifts, raised hands and lowered faces.

Author : David C. McDuffie
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781789047189

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Nature's Sacrament by David C. McDuffie Pdf

In a sacramental ecology, divine grace is to be found in the evolutionary emergence of life. The ‘Epic of Evolution’ is the scientific story that reveals that we live in an approximately 14 billion year old universe on a planet that is approximately 4.6 billion years old and that we are a part of the ongoing process of life that has existed on Earth for roughly 4 billion years. Nature's Sacrament focuses on the religious and ecological significance of the evolutionary epic in an effort to seamlessly connect the ecological value attributed as a part of an understanding of the evolutionary connectedness of life on Earth, with the Divine grace understood to be present in Christian sacramental worship. David C. McDuffie is a faculty member in the Religious Studies Department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where his primary teaching schedule includes courses in World Religions, Religion in America, Christian History, Religion and Environment, and Religion and Politics. Broadly, his research and teaching interests involve the subject area of Religion and Culture, which includes but is not limited to the relationships between religion and politics, science, and health care. This is his first book.