Sacramentals

Homosexuality is becoming a more common practice in the world today. Some problems that homosexuals go through involve conflicts between different groups that they affiliate themselves with. In extreme cases, gay Catholics are denied their right to get married or to enter the priesthood. They are almost always accepted into every church and are encouraged to participate to an extent. Catholics are strongly against homosexual acts and homosexuals are strongly for them. Not everyone has the…

The main writing of Charles Williams that demonstrates his theology is Outlines of Romantic Theology. The main idea behind this work is that “sexual love between and man and a woman…is capable of being assumed into sacramental and transcendental heights” (pp. 7, 9 of Outlines of Romantic Theology). This is definitely a strange concept, that romantic love can combine with Christianity, but is the definitive teaching of Charles Williams. This is what gained Charles Williams…

CHAPTER – I INTRODUCTORY REFLECTIONS Marriage is the foundation on which the institution of family is built up. Family is the unit of society on which the super structure of entire society and stability of social institution would stand. A happy matrimonial life is undoubtedly the foundation for successful family system. On the contrary, the sick and disgruntled marital relation has their repercussion impact not merely upon the related spouses, their children. Its impact on society may give rise…

Alexander makes up for not deferring to his preferred definition of liturgical theology by attempting to draw a connection to the life of the Church at the end of each stop he makes. He ties the sacramental life of the Church, with the eschatological and soteriological history of the Church, in other words, with the life of Christ. This says that if we do not attempt to live the life of Christ as we take part of the life of the Church, then we would…

Flannery O’Connor was a writer from the twentieth century who made her characters inflexible, ignorant, and with too much pride. She used black humor mixed with some of her religious beliefs, lots of irony, and extreme situations. She wrote two novels in her lifetime and thirty-two short stories. Her first novel was “Wise Blood’ in 1952. She was born in Savannah, Georgia to Edward F. O’Connor and Regina Cline. She died August 3, 1964 at age 39 from lupus. In her stories O’Connor leaves with a…

1. Raku a. History i. Origins Tile sculptor and potter Chojiro developed the raku technique during the Momoyama period in the 16th century. Chojiro was asked by tea master Sen no Rikyu to create tea bowls for the new restrained and simplified aesthetic style of Zen Buddhist tea ceremonies. Chojiro’s tea bowls used monochromatic glazes, typically black or red. The overall design aimed to eliminate variations of form, movement, and decoration. They also symbolized the aesthetics of wabi-sabi which…

As a seemingly dreary atmosphere crept through European towns and cities, local citizens were being, to their dismay, succumbed to a fatal disease they knew little of. The Black Death, in its monstrous form, strangled the life out of every being it came in contact with. It drained its prey of their faith, hope and a perseverance to keep fighting. Having no one to turn to, no one to get a definitive answer or solution from, these victims acted out, and reacted in ways that were outrageous,…

Going hand in hand with the mass incarceration of African-Americans is current their disenfranchisement. According to Michelle Alexander, this new Jim Crow has “disenfranchised [more] today than in 1870, the year the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified prohibiting laws that explicitly deny the rights to vote on the basis of race” (Alexander, 2011, p. 180). All but three states have some type of law prohibiting prisoners or even individuals who served their full sentences from voting in elections…

To speak of God is fraught with complexity. To capture with mere language and words the divine mystery that creates and permeates the universe seems almost absurd. Yet Christian faith calls us to respond to the God who has come near and revealed Godself in human flesh. Reformed theologian Carl E. Braaten writes that, “As soon as the first philosophers searched for the logos, the meaning, of their native rituals and myths, they reflected on the problem of speaking of God in human terms. If we…

Sethe’srememories about that horrendous past were so agonizing that they came in broken and disconnected parts in which the death of her mother was fused with of her daughter’s.Indeed, Sethe’s real healing initiates with her reintegration into her community, at the end of the novel, because being part of a community again means that she was not alone anymore, as she felt after her mother’s and daughter’s deaths. The community ritual of rescuing her is a symbol of forgiveness. Morrison brings in…