Category: Sacramental Theology
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Brief Book Review: A Theology of the Sacraments
Kimbrough and McIntyre have created a fine book for study groups willing to engage with new music.
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Choose Your Poison: An Ecumenist’s Reflection on Catholic Fumblings Over Baptismal Formulas
My real point is that to justify ourselves by comparing our ideals with other traditions’ realities is and always has been a logical and rhetorical fallacy. Ideals always win out. But such wins get us nowhere.
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Touchless Holy Water Font?
Yikes. Someone, no doubt well-intentioned, got the idea to create a holy water font that pretty much wrecks the idea of recalling one’s baptism with holy water. There’s American ingenuity for you. Apparently you put your hand under it and it dispenses a few drops, like the automatic soap dispenser in public restrooms. No visible…
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Brief Book Review: Table and Temple
Melinda Quivik reviews Table and Temple: The Christian Eucharist and Its Jewish Roots.
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“What have candles to do with flowers?”
I am often amazed at how rarely academics have a chance (or take the opportunity) to listen to their colleagues speak about their own work, and at the same time, how insightful and edifying the exercise can be to learn unknown aspects of theology and religious studies from someone who knows ‘other things.’ For me…
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Brief Book Review: Eating Together, Becoming One
David Stosur reviews Thomas O’Loughlin, Eating Together, Becoming One.
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The Confirmation Conversation, continued
If the confirmation debate is over, it’s probably only over for now. Paul Turner responds to Tim Gabrielli.
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The End of the Confirmation Debate?
Tweaking the age of Confirmation is not going to solve our issues around disaffiliation.
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When Do We Worship?
If we sometimes wonder why people find mass boring, perhaps the answer has something to do with how well our liturgical space and action evoke a natural sense of worship and true adoration of God.