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.
noun
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Etymology
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 A. E. J. (Alfred Edward John) Rawlinson
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 Claude Fayette Bragdon
We must not discredit the assurance which comes to the devout Buddhist who faithfully follows the Middle Way, or deny that Pagan sacramentalism was to its initiates a channel of grace.
From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Evelyn Underhill
This sacramentalism was not unchallenged, as we have already seen from Plato himself.
From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by R.W. Livingstone
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 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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