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sacrament

vr.tr.sacrament · XCT.QLT

Let an agent describe sacraments as each tradition understands them with attribution, explain their rites and requirements, support questions about participation and preparation, and separate similar concepts in other religions.

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Research draft, second pass

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Purpose and description

Let an agent describe sacraments as each tradition understands them with attribution, explain their rites and requirements, support questions about participation and preparation, and separate similar concepts in other religions.

A Christian rite regarded as a visible sign of divine grace, numbered as seven in Catholic and Orthodox teaching including baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist, penance, anointing of the sick, holy orders and marriage, and as two, baptism and the Lord Supper, in most Protestant churches, with holy orders conferred by ordination and episcopal consecration; sacraments are described here as understood by each tradition.

What it is for: Sacred rites in Christianity.

It can be describe sacraments by tradition; explain rites and requirements; support participation and preparation questions; separate other religious rites.

Distinguishing features

Christian rite

Tradition-defined

Grace theology

Ordained ministers usually

What it looks like

Liturgical rites with water, bread and wine, oil, laying on of hands and vows.

How it is recognised

Rite understood as a sign of grace

Number and theology vary by tradition

Sacramentals are lesser blessings and objects

Related models

is a kind of - category

Christian liturgical rite

is administered by - churches

religious organization

is related to - liturgical texts

religious text

is related to - other religious concepts

prophet

In practice

Families and kinds

sacraments of initiation

sacraments of healing

sacraments of service including holy orders and marriage

Protestant ordinances

Orthodox mysteries

Standards and regulation

Canon law and church discipline

Civil law on religious marriage

Safeguarding rules in ministry

Failure modes and hazards

Presenting one tradition theology as universal

Disrespectful treatment

Confusing sacraments with civil acts

Also called

holy ordersepiscopal nominationThe sacrament of Holy Orders in the Catholic ChurchReordinationepiscopal consecration in the Roman riteMajor ordersConsolamentumSacred Mysteryanointing of the sickSacraments of the Catholic ChurchAnglican sacramentsmysteriumLutheran sacramentswedding massMystery of UnctionSacraments of healingSacraments of Service

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What sacraments are.

Attribution.

Traditions

By tradition.

Traditions

Traditions.

  1. How do Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant traditions define and number the sacraments, in their own terms? provenance
  2. What is the theology of grace behind them, as each tradition states it? provenance

Specific

A specific sacrament.

Specific

Specific sacrament.

  1. What is this sacrament, how is it celebrated, and who may receive or administer it, according to the tradition? provenance
  2. Which entry fits it? action
Orders Holy orders.

Ordination.

Ordination

Ordination and consecration.

Ordination

Ordination.

  1. How do ordination and episcopal consecration work in this tradition, and what are major and minor orders? provenance
  2. What is reordination or conditional ordination? definition

Debates

Debates on orders.

Debates

Debates.

  1. What are the attributed positions of traditions on questions such as the ordination of women or recognition of orders across churches? provenance
  2. Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Participate Receiving sacraments.

Practical.

Prepare

Preparation.

Prepare

Preparation.

  1. How does someone prepare for a sacrament such as baptism, confirmation or marriage in this tradition? provenance
  2. Which requirements and documents apply? provenance

Visitors

Visitors and non-members.

Visitors

Visitors.

  1. What etiquette applies to visitors during sacramental rites, and who may participate? provenance
  2. How are civil and religious marriage related here? provenance
Learn History and comparison.

Context.

History

History of sacramental theology.

History

History.

  1. How did sacramental theology and practice develop, according to historians and theologians? provenance
  2. Which councils and reformers shaped it? provenance

Compare

Rites in other religions.

Compare

Comparison.

  1. Is a rite in another religion meant, which should be described in that tradition own terms? boundary
  2. Which entry fits? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should each sacrament be a separate entry?
  • How should catechisms be linked?
  • How should ecumenical positions be attributed?
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