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traditional practices of Christian worship useful and
useable today? |
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Doctrine of
Transubstantiation |
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Potential Abuses:
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| Arndt:
Consciousness of total dependence on God, where humans
have means to end the world. We could/should be more
convinced of the need for action. |
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| Calvin:
Word oriented religious self where action is in great need
- more than oratory skill |
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| Augustine/Aquinas/de
Sales: Passionately focusing on the Sacrament, may
lead some to 'check-out' of social life and world
problems. |
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| And: Self
worthlessness in relation to God: More common today to
empower, and imbue the self with worth to be worthy. |
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| So |
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| It is important
to create a self-alternative ... in a world where we are
conditioned to accept social roles, expectations,
attitudes, passive reaction to misery and violence, and
toleration of nuclear weapons? |
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| So what is the Value of
worship /sacrament? |
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| Worship can be
understood as creating and sustaining community in
addition to creating a religious self in relation to God. |
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| Worship should
be understood not only as occasion for exercise of the
spirit, but also orientation of physical life, bodies in
all their beauty and fragility. |
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| Through the
media of language, music, visual images, gestures,
movement, they insist on the inclusion of bodies and
senses in celebration of being and gratitude for creation. |
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| As such, worship
affirms the beauty and permanent value of human life,
physical as well as spiritual life, in the face of
death-threatening forces that surround our lives. |
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