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Between the Center and the Margins: Young Catholics, “Sorta-Catholics,” and Baptismal Identity

open access: yesReligions, 2019
Increased pastoral and theological attention to the vocational implications of baptism is sorely needed. As a small contribution to this conversation, this article will examine the insights of young Catholics and their self-described “former ...
Rhodora Beaton
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“In That Water You Could Rinse Things Clean”

open access: yesSvensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 2021
The aim of this article is to explore the depiction of baptism in Marilynne Robinson's Lila. In a way that is unique for contemporary fiction, the protagonist, Lila, seeks in baptism a relief of her chronic feelings of shame and a confirmation that she ...
Elina Takala
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Justice and Gender in Ministry: Debating Women\u27s Ordination [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Much has been written on the question of ordaining women in the Roman Catholic Church. Catholic scholars of all stripes have debated issues such as the biblical sources for a theology of ordination; the relationship between sacramental and non ...
Ryan, Maura A.
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Sacramental Exchange: Eschatological Economy and Consumption Ritual

open access: yesReligions, 2020
Contemporary sacramental theology construes the sacraments as a symbolic gift exchange between God and humanity; God initiates in the ministry of Jesus Christ, and human beings acknowledge and respond to God’s gift.
Kimberly Belcher
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Komunia Święta duchowa w czasach pandemii

open access: yesColloquia Theologica Ottoniana, 2021
According to Thomas Aquinas, the faithful can receive Holy Communion by sacramentally receiving the consecrated host and wine or by so-called spiritual communion.
Paweł Beyga
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Reappropriating sacramental thinking within Protestant Evangelicalism: A move towards systemic awareness

open access: yesIn die Skriflig, 2017
The dissertation on which this article is based, has been a polemical study aimed at exploring the sacramental theology of the late Roman Catholic theologian, Edward Schillebeeckx and thereby using it as a ‘foil’ against which to propose an alternative ...
Dennis D. Elliott
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Pansacramentalism, Interreligious Theology, and Lived Religion

open access: yesReligions, 2019
Opening with a philosophical definition of sacrament(ality) as a mediator (mediation) of the sacred in the concrete world, this article offers pansacramentalism as a promising worldview—especially for those rooted in or emerging from the Christian ...
Hans Gustafson
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Orthodox Pastoral Theology

open access: yesSt Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, 2023
This brief article delineates Orthodox pastoral theology by chiefly emphasizing the organic connection between Liturgical/sacramental life and social/pastoral involvement in the Christian Orthodox tradition.
Razvan Porumb
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Theology of the Word of God in the Apostolic Exhortation Verbum Domini by Benedict XVI

open access: yesWrocławski Przegląd Teologiczny, 2023
The theology of the word of God is one of the leitmotifs of Joseph Ratzinger’s entire theology, and in a way its culmination is the apostolic exhortation Verbum Domini, which, although being the result of a collegial reflection on the word of God ...
Janusz Królikowski
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