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Sacramental Commons

Author : John Hart
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0742546055

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The increasing awareness of environmental issues as ultimately moral issues has led to the intersection of religion and environment. Sacramental Commons presents a unique way of looking at this topic by relating the Christian word 'sacrament' (signs of divine presence) to the term 'commons' (shared place and shared goods, among people and between people and the natural world), suggesting that local natural settings and local communities can be a source for respect and compassion. Sacramental Commons uses Earth-oriented biblical teachings, and ideas from such thinkers as Hildegard, St. Francis, John Muir, and Black Elk, to provide insights about divine immanence in creation, human commitments to creation, and human accountability to the Spirit, Earth, and biotic community. It extends the concept of 'natural rights' beyond humans to include all nature, and affirms intrinsic value in ecosystems in whole and in part. Sacramental Commons declares that the Earth commons and its goods should be shared equitably by human communities and individuals living in interdependent relationships with other members of the community of life. It suggests essential values that will stimulate care for the commons, and embodies them in principles of an innovative Christian Ecological Ethics.

Sacramental Life

Author : David A. deSilva
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830835188

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Sacramental Life by David A. deSilva Pdf

As David deSilva has experienced the ancient wisdom of the Book of Common Prayer, he's been formed spiritually in deep and lasting ways. In these pages, he offers you a brand new way to use the Book of Common Prayer, exploring how Christians can be spiritually formed by the sacraments of baptism, Eucharist, marriage and last rites.

Befriend

Author : Jana Strukova
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666709971

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Befriend by Jana Strukova Pdf

Befriend narrates a personal experience of the author with the formation of a faith-based nonprofit in health services. It combines real-life examples with theories from several disciplines to describe the nature and role of nonprofit in a community. The book argues that faith-based nonprofits create spaces of hospitality and inclusion for diverse humanity. They are poised to teach practices of friendship based on the friendship of Trinity and personal awareness of how mental health can either contribute to friendships in communities or inhibit it.

Whole-Earth Ethics for Holy Ground

Author : Stephen L. Hastings
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498531276

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Whole-Earth Ethics for Holy Ground by Stephen L. Hastings Pdf

Over the last fifty years Western Christianity has been criticized as a cause and enabler of Earth’s ecological crisis. It has been said that Christianity promotes a spiritual-material dualism where the material side of life has little sacred value. Also noted in the critique is the hesitancy of many Christians to embrace modern scientific understandings of creation, especially evolution. Some Christian writers have responded by accepting modern cosmology and evolution, and advocating for a “sacramental” creation spirituality, oftentimes supported by fresh readings of earlier Christian writings. In Whole-Earth Ethics for Holy Ground, Dr. Stephen Hastings begins by offering a genre defining overview of late 20th century and early 21st century writings that he calls “sacramental” creation spirituality. These writings are characterized by their acceptance of the scientific creation story of cosmogenesis and evolution, and their recovery of authentic Christian nature mysticism. Hastings then looks at Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955 CE), Maximus the Confessor (c.580–662 CE), and Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464 CE). Together the teachings of Maximus and Nicholas support Teilhard’s call for a theology of a Creator God robust enough to encompass the most expansive and complicated propositions about creation made by science, while remaining as close as the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. The integrated teachings of these three figures suggest the consecration of creation as its condition of being, meaning that God is present in all things. This consecration or presence inspires sacramental experiences that are revelations of God in and through creation. These complement the sacramental experience of Christ in the Eucharist. Together these sacramental encounters converge to support the conclusion that just as one receives and responds to Christ present in the elements of the communion table, so one ought to receive and respond to oneself, one’s neighbors, and all creation as the universal consecrated and sacramental neighborhood. This is a whole-Earth sacramental ethic that is what we need today, centered on all life and ecosystems.

Christian Theology and the Status of Animals

Author : R. McLaughlin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137344588

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Christian Theology and the Status of Animals by R. McLaughlin Pdf

The author argues that there are conflicting traditions with regard to the question of what is the moral standing of animals according to Christianity. The dominant tradition maintains that animals are primarily resources but there are alternative strands of Christian thought that challenge this view.

The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the United Church of England

Author : Church of England
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1799
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLI:3476146-10

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The book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland together with the proper lessons for sundays and other holy-days

Author : Church of England
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1034 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Liturgies
ISBN : BSB:BSB11010791

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The book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland together with the proper lessons for sundays and other holy-days by Church of England Pdf

The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of Ireland: Together with the Psalter, Etc

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000625079

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The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of Ireland: Together with the Psalter, Etc by Anonim Pdf

The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England

Author : Church of England
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1749
Category : Sacraments
ISBN : IND:30000120161173

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The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America

Author : Episcopal Church
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015063913225

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Touched by Christ: The Sacramental Economy

Author : Lawrence Feingold
Publisher : Emmaus Academic
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781645850984

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Touched by Christ: The Sacramental Economy by Lawrence Feingold Pdf

The sacramental economy was instituted by Christ and entrusted to His Church in order to build up the Body of Christ in a twofold communion: binding the members together with God and one another. Touched by Christ: The Sacramental Economy is an introductory course on Sacramental Theology suitable for all who seek a deeper understanding of how the Church’s sacraments constitute channels of grace, nurture supernatural life, and heal us from our sins. Lawrence Feingold expertly describes the nature of the sacraments; their purpose, fittingness, and relationship with Christ and the New Covenant; their relationship with the Old Covenant rites that prefigured them; the character and grace that they communicate; and the nature of their causality. Touched by Christ shows that the sacraments of the New Covenant should be understood as instruments of Christ’s humanity that are used as words of power to communicate the sanctification that they signify, infuse grace, communicate the Holy Spirit, and build up ecclesial communion in those who receive them with the right dispositions.

Introduction to Sacramental Theology

Author : Jose Granados
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 40,8 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.