EDER 524 Lecture Notes - Transubstantiation, Purgatory

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: EDER 524
• Professor: David Harpp

Document Summary

1) baptism- the sprinkling or immersion in water, the ritual by which a person is initiated into membership in the christian community. Baptism is considered a cleansing from sin: glossolalia- speaking in strange tongues, which is a principal feature of charismatic behaviour, nicene creed- an ancient doctrinal formulation longer and more explicit than the. Apostles" creed and still in the use through regular recitation in the catholic mass: trinity-the conception of god as having three persons" or manifestations: as father, as son and as holy spirit. The doctrine emerged during the late third century and was adopted after vigorous debate in the fourth: passion- the suffering and death of jesus on the cross, pentecost- the fiftieth day after easter, commemorated as the occasion when. Jesus" followers experienced dramatically the presence of the holy spirit and the ability to preach and be understood in different languages: sacrament- a ritual action seen as signifying divine grace.