Understanding The Sacraments Today
Understanding The Sacraments Today

Author: Lawrence E. Mick

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2016-03-24

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 0814637752

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The sacraments are at the heart of our life as Catholics, the way we celebrate together our continuing conversion and encounter with God. Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Penance, Anointing, Marriage, and Holy Orders 'al are activities that require preparation to bring us to the fullness of our life in community and in Christ. Chapter by chapter, Father Lawrence Mick puts these core experiences into their historical and theological context, and illuminates the ways the sacraments bring us together as God's people. Ever conscious of the complex history of the church and its dynamic relationship to ritual, as well as the varied histories of human communities, Understanding the Sacraments Today is a book to be visited and revisited, a companion to the ongoing and repeated practices that nourish us. Lawrence E. Mick, a priest in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, is a liturgical consultant and writer whose numerous books include Living Baptism Daly, published by Liturgical Press. He has also been active in parish, retreat, and campus ministries.

Sacraments
Sacraments

Author: Ray Robert Noll

Publisher: Twenty-Third Publications

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9780896229938

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Firmly rooted in the tradition of the Church and some of the best scholarship of the past 40 years, Noll explores the sign, meaning, and experience of each of the seven sacraments in the church. Included is a CD-ROM containing articles and passages by some of today's key sacramental theologians.

Martin Luther and the Seven Sacraments
Martin Luther and the Seven Sacraments

Author: Brian C. Brewer

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2017-10-03

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 1493410865

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This introduction to Martin Luther's sacramental theology addresses a central question in the life of the church and in ecumenical dialogue. Although Luther famously reduced the sacraments from seven to two (baptism and the Lord's Supper), he didn't completely dismiss the others. Instead, he positively recast them as practices in the church. This book explores the medieval church's understanding of the seven sacraments and the Protestant rationale for keeping or eliminating each sacrament. It also explores implications for contemporary theology and worship, helping Protestants imagine ways of reclaiming lost benefits of the seven sacraments.

Sacraments Revisited
Sacraments Revisited

Author: Liam Kelly

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780809138128

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Explores the history and theology of both the sacraments in general and all seven individually, while encouraging readers to rediscover the rich meaning each one has for them today.

Worship that Cares
Worship that Cares

Author: Mark Earey

Publisher: SCM Press

Published: 2013-01-03

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0334048877

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An introduction to the principles and skills of pastoral liturgy. Inter-denominational, this text can be used across different Christian traditions, in both formal and informal contexts and to meet traditional and non-traditional pastoral needs.

How Marriage Became One of the Sacraments
How Marriage Became One of the Sacraments

Author: Philip L. Reynolds

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-06-30

Total Pages: 1083

ISBN-13: 1107146151

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An indispensable guide to how marriage acquired the status of a sacrament. This book analyzes in detail how medieval theologians explained the place of matrimony in the church and her law, and how the bitter debates of the sixteenth century elevated the doctrine to a dogma of the Catholic faith.

Passage to Pasch
Passage to Pasch

Author: Michael Drumm

Publisher: Columba Press (IE)

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 9781856071765

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One of the great preoccupations of pastors in today's church is the relevance of the sacraments in the lives of the People of God. Have our rituals and symbols become so minimalized and frozen as to have lost their meaning for people? Michael Drumm

Sacraments after Christendom
Sacraments after Christendom

Author: Andrew Francis

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2022-01-01

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 071889622X

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In contemporary Western society the church has been pushed to the margins, leading experts to describe the current era as a time ‘after Christendom’. Many traditional churches and congregations are struggling, a condition worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic regulations. As the practice of churchgoing wanes, the performance of the sacrament is called into question. How can we bring the traditional, communal experience of sacrament into the modern world? In Sacraments after Christendom, Andrew Francis and Janet Sutton tackle this question head-on, exploring and discussing the enactment of the sacrament in the context of church decline and an increasingly isolated world. In doing so, they deconstruct traditional perceptions and broaden our understanding of ritual and community in order to rediscover the truth of the sacrament.

The Sacraments
The Sacraments

Author: Joseph Martos

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2009-08-01

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 0814657079

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What are the sacraments, really? For centuries, the religious lives of Catholics and other Christians have revolved around church rituals with generally accepted individual and social effects. What, precisely, are those effects, and how are they produced? Traditional theology used Greek philosophy to understand the sacraments and how they work. But is there no other way to understand them? In fact, there are a number of ways, and this book invites you to look at the sacraments through a variety of lenses: psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, theology, morality, and spirituality. As the introduction to this volume challenges, "If you read this book, and especially if you engage in the interactive study to which it invites you, your understanding of sacraments will be changed forever." To help personalize your investigation, the author has created a web site with thought-provoking questions that encourage you to interact with the ideas being proposed in this volume. To engage these topics more deeply, see www.TheSacraments.org.