1.a rite considered to have been established by Christ as a means of grace: the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Eastern Orthodox sacraments are baptism, the Eucharist, the anointing of the sick, confirmation, holy orders, penance, and matrimony; the Protestant sacraments are baptism and the Lord...
“Protestant deconstruction of Catholic worship” is a polemical and anti-ecumenical statement, and not adequate to the complex historical reality. Or to the spirit of Vatican II. And for at least a hundred years now, Catholics and Protestants have moving toward convergence on the potency and des...
the juridical definition of the church did not include traditional themes such as thecommunion of saintsand thebody of Christ. The theme of the communion of saints refers to the church as a whole, including both the living and the dead (the souls inpurgatory—a place or condition for those...