The New Dictionary of Sacramental Worship
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Contributors to this dictionary have been selected from all over the English-speaking world, and it is to the concerns of the English-speaking churches that these essays are primarily addressed. The dictionary is structured as a theological and pastoral resource, covering a wide range of activities that are constitutive of a sacramental Church. The entries include the strictly theological, the practical liturgical, the pastoral, and the social.
Top Highlights
“a journey from pastoral encounter to catechesis, from catechesis to liturgy, and from liturgy to mystagogy and mission” (Page 168)
“While the theological reality of being plunged into the paschal mystery is the same for all baptized Christians, the perceived experience of living out Christian conversion is not. The rich ambiguity of symbolic ritual allows a given rite to be perceived by all converts as a genuine articulation of their own unique experience of the work of the Holy Spirit in their lives, and as a vehicle through which they can surrender themselves to that work.” (Page 109)
“Christ, the primary sacrament of encounter with God, renders the whole of creation new and redeemed. In this sense, while the church has nominated only certain actions as sacraments, there is ‘hardly any proper use of material things which cannot be … directed toward the sanctification of men and the praise of God’ (SC, 61).” (Page 1115)
“Some scholars have argued that the restoration of this particular period of initiation is artificial, given that modern day Catholicism no longer bears the traits of a secret sect religion.” (Page 883)
“discursive reference to those cosmic, oneiric and poetic fields of force which constitute living symbolism” (Page 525)