LIBROS DEL AUTOR: joseph martos

3 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: joseph martos

  • Honest Rituals, Honest Sacraments
    Joseph Martos
    Honest rituals are ceremonial actions that celebrate what is actually happening in people’s lives. Religious rituals, however, often celebrate beliefs and doctrines (e.g., the birth of Christ, God’s forgiveness of sins, or the gifts of the Holy Spirit) that have little to do with people’s experience.Martos argues that early Christian rituals were grounded in experiences such as...
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  • Deconstructing Sacramental Theology and Reconstructing Catholic Ritual
    Joseph Martos
    Catholic sacramental doctrine has lost much of its credibility. Baptized people leave the church, adolescents stop attending shortly after they are confirmed, supposedly indissoluble marriages regularly dissolve, few go to confession, and many do not believe in transubstantiation.Drawing upon his decades-long study of the sacraments, Martos reveals how teachings that seemed roo...
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  • Sacraments
    Joseph Martos
    What are the sacraments, really?For centuries, the religious lives of Catholics and other Christians have revolved around church rituals with generally accepted individual and social effects. What, precisely, are those effects, and how are they produced? Traditional theology used Greek philosophy to understand the sacraments and how they work. But is there no other way to under...
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