THEO 298 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Viaticum, Consubstantiation, Philip Melanchthon
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The sacraments represent both the visible church and the presence of god. There are seven sacraments accepted by catholics and orthodox churches, but only two accepted by protestants. Augusine sacraments are signs applied to divine things. There is a connecion between the sign and what it represents. Hugh of st. victor clariies augusine: sacraments are made of physical elements (or invisible grace of god according to peter. Lombard: there exists a likeness between what is physically used and what is signiied, the sign must be authorized to represent the spiritual reality to which it points, sacraments confer the signiied beneits to those who partake. Marin luther limits the sacraments to only signs which were instrituted by god (bapism and. Act as mediators between humans and the divine (visible and invisible church: as a foretaste of heaven, as a commemoraion of the life of christ, uniies the chrisian faithful (even with diverse denominaions)