Calls for the admission of women to ordained offices in the Catholic Church are becoming louder than ever. I would like to make a proposal, which falls short of those calls, but makes use of the holistic power of liturgical symbolism.
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Category: Sacramental Theology
Young Scholars Bring New Questions and Multiple Disciplines to Bear on Sacramental Theology
Drone warfare, consumer culture, guilt-driven obedience, faith amidst a pluralistic world are among topics six fresh voices address in a growing collection of articles on sacramental-liturgical theology.
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At Forty Days—The Offering of a Child
“The churching of a child is an offering to God and the altar is the place where we make such offerings.”
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A Sacramental Imagination — Without the Superheroes
Last week, I wrote about two tempting primrose paths in thinking about the sacraments. If you didn’t read that one, I’d encourage you to go
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The “Sacramental Imagination” — and Superheros
Catholics use the language of “sacrament” very frequently. We are a sacramental people, with a sacramental imagination. But what exactly that means is something that
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Church, Ordination, and Power
Some thoughts about how the Catholic Church should deal with structures of power.
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Ordering the Body: 1. Unity in Difference
The first of a series on the Sacrament of Order. This piece begins to consider why the sacrament has that name and why the latin name is singular (“order”) and not plural (“orders”).
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Baptism, Eucharist, and Artistic Tokens of New Heavens and a New Earth
Now in its second decade on the stages of Nashville’s storied Ryman Auditorium and Lipscomb University, the Tokens Show presents lively entertainment as an ongoing “cultural experiment” pulling together Americana, folk, and contemporary music wherein music-making, song-singing, and conversations help imagine a world of beauty and wonder, justice and mercy, peace and graciousness.
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St. Benedict’s Raven
A sacramental understanding of the church is necessary to any contemporary reform movement because without it we cannot separate loyalty to the institution from fidelity to Christ, even when those institutions become poisonous.
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Teaching Liturgy to Undergrads
How to do it?
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