Transubstantiation

work its believers. This turn is identical to the movement of religious believers as they seek to further their religious institution or spiritual ethos. The image that Cox uses to display the theology of “the Market” is High Church doctrine of transubstantiation during the Liturgy of the Eucharist. Cox…

Introduction Historical Situation Christianity in the early 16th and 17th centuries went through a very rough and turbulent ride. Some may even argue that we are still feeling the effects of this time today. This was a time of great progress and change in the Catholic Church and much of Europe. This time saw many great minds and brought about many reformers. Some of the many were Huldrych Zwingli, Martin Luther, John Calvin and Erasmus. This in my opinion was the start of one of the most…

Many groups of people migrated to the United States. Some moved because of push factors like natural disasters and political problems, while others were put into slavery and taken to America involuntarily. Several of these groups that migrated to America throughout the course of history were the Africans, the Irish, and the Southern Italians. The Africans were one of the first people groups in America and migrated during the Formative Wave. The Irish migrated during the First Wave, and the…

1.) Idealistic and spiritual motives were in fact at work. Doing penance for one's sins was a powerful spiritual factor. An especially powerful motive was the religious aura of Jerusalem, which had been a popular pilgrimage site for Christians. The popes of the Gregorian Reform delegated shedding blood to the laity. The Crusades were military expeditions launched against unbelieving Muslims and heretics. 2.) Pope Innocent III believed he could intervene in political affairs when moral or…

The articles labeled “Huldrich Zwubgli” and “Edward Schillebeeckx On The Real Prescense” both state the writers’’ views on the issue of whether we should consider the Lord’s supper to be “sacraments” or “ordinances.” A sacrament is a religious ceremony or act that symbolizes spiritual reality through a visible sign. An ordinance is a practice that merely demonstrates the participant’s faith. The views in this article are different, but in some ways they are similar. The first article is about…

How do you explain Human Failure? Humans are not perfect because our intellect and Wills are not perfect. If we had perfect intellect we would be able to fully understand the consequences of every action, we take. With Will, things are similar. Good people do bad things because of lack of Will power when temptation comes. If our intellects and wills were perfect we would always know the consequences and severity of our actions, and have the power to execute them, even when our passions and…

“I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.” (John 6:51) When the sacrament of the Eucharist was first introduced, it was used by Jesus to present the disciples with the idea of God’s creation and how it manifested. The Catholic Church is calling for individuals to re-evaluate the Sacrament of Eucharist, as it is the foot hold to ecological conversion, which is …. During the…

Bible says. Luther drives hard the message of ‘by faith alone’ here. No one today should be troubled on whether or not to eat meat or get married, washing the altar linens, or touch the sacrament (for not to disturb Catholic, man-made idea of Transubstantiation). It is only taught that we are instructed in what the Sacrament is, and that the Holy Supper is not in essence but in actuality, the blood and body of Jesus Christ. Purely a reassurance that what was done at the cross will forever take…

Man is made in the image and likeness of God. He is the pinnacle of creation and held to the highest dignity of all creation. He is granted free will and reason to not only determine what is right and wrong, but to choose it for himself. Some speculate that the Catholic church does not uphold human dignity, but that man is simply following blindly in the name of faith. This is not the case. Rather than destroy one’s appreciation for human dignity, the Catholic Church’s teachings on faith enhance…

none of them were successful until Martin Luther came. 2. Who attempted to reform the Church during the Renaissance? How and why? (4) Martin Luther began the reformation in 1517 by posting the “95 theses”. Luther argued firstly about the transubstantiation. He said that the priests and pope have no longer close relationship with God and denied that anything changed substance during Holy Communion. He was also against the sale of indulgence by the church. This practice was about buying…