Holiness can be analysed in terms of three frameworks: as a real property of sacred persons, places, things, and times; as an ascription of a special status, especially that of ownership by or proximity to God; and as a project of spiritual and ethical striving. The Bible exemplifies each...
Grace may be described as the gratuitous self-communication of God through Christ in the Holy Spirit. The term also refers to the living, actual, and continuous experience humans have of this saving event. In a wholly unmerited way, the Spirit of the risen Christ becomes present in the chur...
This article works to establish a conceptual definition for sacraments in relation to the concept of sign within the Roman Catholic Christian tradition. In the Catholic tradition, seven sacraments are recognized: baptism, confirmation, Eucharist, penance, anointing, holy orders, and marriag...