The work of the church in the world
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1. Marriages in the Christian community are considered a sacrament that allows two individuals to enter into the eternal bond of life that God intends for humanity. 2. Sin is described both as a condition humans are born into due to original sin but also as conscious acts of rebellion against God's will. 3. The sacraments are religious rites established by Christ that use signs and symbols to convey divine grace, with the first dynamism being faith in God's ability to work through them and the second being God's actual spiritual presence during the sacraments.
The work of the church in the world
- 2. Marriages in the Christian Community are Sacramental It enables human beings to A love singly enter into relationship that the final and climaxes in unending form vision face to of life that God face St. Paul intends them.
- 3. The Sin of the World According to John the Baptist, Christ had come to take away An effort at rescue and a striving to salvage men and women from this sin Endemic; from the Beginning
- 4. SIN Habitual set of human wills in rebellion against the divin will Shifted the ground of idea of sin Passed down (genetics) Now, sinful condition Condition of Human environment and Condition within the Soul theologians quest to find out the core of sinfulness of the race
- 5. Makes us understand that sin is no longer Mackin an inherent aspect of the individual More of a Sin condition that we are born into Sin as an inherent impression into a Change more conditional understanding
- 6. Sin as a condition from conscious rebellion Mackin supports the contemporary understanding that sin is a conscious act or decision that go against what is Sins naturally Gods plan. new Definition Sin as a condition from setting sin can also be found in attitudes, condition s and social structures even if they are not direct products of a conscious rebellion
- 7. Mackin goes on to identify how both conditions of sin are generated Marriage: Loss of the self , strategies of the Fear: the loss of but marriage Church, to heal the self requires self- this FEAR of the giving loss of the self
- 8. The 7 Sacraments Baptism Sacraments of Confirmation initiation Eucharist Penance of Sacraments of Reconciliation Healing Anoint of the Sick Sacraments at Holy Orders the service of Matrimony Communion
- 9. Signs of grace Christian rite ordained by Christ that is Long established customs held by and traditions Sacrament means of divine grace A symbol of Early Christians: Religious a spiritual Jews or Gentiles, different reality understandings Divine Mysteries that they believe God acts in
- 10. The First Dynamism of the Christian Sacrament Faith That God can use these rituals to work his effect in the participants TRUST That He will do so Human LOVE Dynamism That desires He to do so
- 11. The Dynamism not Contradictory The Second Dynamism Sacraments having The Presence of Gods meanings similar to their Action gesture -His Spirit This Dynamism does not Animates the fusion discard the cultural meaning (sacrament) with His native to the ritual and simply intention and meaning replace it with its own Union
- 12. The Sacraments and Culture The Sacraments are animated from the rituals culturally inherited meaning Human rituals to manifest Gods meanings God uses rituals of healing
- 13. The The Transformations are not Physical Transformation of Rituals It is a transformation of Meaning The meaning allows us to symbolically Christ interact with Him Traditional In more Traditional terms, He is really present to them