sacramentalism
Americannoun
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a belief in or emphasis on the importance and efficacy of the sacraments for achieving salvation and conferring grace.
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emphasis on the importance of sacramental objects and ritual actions.
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Origin of sacramentalism
First recorded in 1860–65; sacramental + -ism
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This principle of the mediation of the spiritual by the material is the principle of sacramentalism.
From Religious Reality by Rawlinson, A. E. J. (Alfred Edward John)
It is much more free from sacramentalism, from vestiges of the ancient blood sacrifice, and its associated sacerdotalism, than Christianity.
From God the Invisible King by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Closely related to symbolism is sacramentalism; the man who sees nature as a book of symbols is likely to regard life as a sacrament.
From Architecture and Democracy by Bragdon, Claude Fayette
Thus certain sectarian movements borrowed the sensationalism without the sacramentalism of Wesley.
From The Victorian Age in Literature by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
To some extent this is already done: traditionalism and liberalism, sacramentalism, revivalism, quietism, have each their existing cults.
From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Underhill, Evelyn
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