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sacramentalism
[ sak-ruh-men-tl-iz-uhm ]
noun
- a belief in or emphasis on the importance and efficacy of the sacraments for achieving salvation and conferring grace.
- emphasis on the importance of sacramental objects and ritual actions.
sacramentalism
/ 藢蝉忙办谤蓹藞尘蓻苍迟蓹藢濒瑟锄蓹尘 /
noun
- belief in or special emphasis upon the efficacy of the sacraments for conferring grace
Derived Forms
- 藢蝉补肠谤补藞尘别苍迟补濒颈蝉迟, noun
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 蝉补肠顎卹补路尘别苍顎僼补濒路颈蝉迟 noun
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of sacramentalism1
Example Sentences
鈥淪acramentalism is not simply nice,鈥 said William D. Dinges, a religious studies professor at the Catholic University of America, about the Catholic rites.
Anglicanism has always been about the attempt鈥攕ometimes successful, sometimes less so鈥攖o find a via media, or middle way, between stricter sacramentalism of Roman Catholicism and stricter scriptural literalism of other Protestant denominations.
Soon, very soon, the men who protested against formalism and sacramentalism were fiercely denounced as "troublers of Israel."
In spite of the fact that in a few of its later representatives Gnosticism assumed a more refined and spiritual aspect, and even produced blossoms of a true and beautiful piety, it is fundamentally and essentially an unstable religious syncretism, a religion in which the determining forces were a fantastic oriental imagination and a sacramentalism which degenerated into the wildest superstitions, a weak dualism fluctuating unsteadily between asceticism and libertinism.
This and two later creedal statements are included in the Book of Concord of 1580 and supply the Lutheran answers to almost every spiritual problem the Christian soul is prone to锟紸nti-Trinitarianism, humanism, Pelagianism, synergism, determinism, Manichaeism, spiritualism, enthusiasm, sacerdotalism, sacramentalism, mysticism, asceticism, perfectionism, antinomianism, chiliasm, apocalypticism, Donatism, Novatianism, etc.
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