Are The Sacraments Narrow?

Are The Sacraments Narrow? By Mark Shea Questions

1. What is Ludwig’s problem?

He doesn’t understand why people say grace is imparted through the sacraments, because it shows grace in a narrow view. He sees God’s grace and love as universal.

2. Explain what the Church is not thinking about when it comes to sacramentality.

The Church is not saying the sacraments are there to deny God’s love and grace to the people who are not saved.

3. Explain what the Church is thinking about when it comes to sacramentality.

The Church is speaking out against doctrines that limit God’s redemption scope and they believe that redemption can happen to everyone.

4. How does God reveal and give to each individual human being his universally offered grace?

There is a primal Sacrament of Sacraments, or Jesus who came and showed us God in the world. He is where the sacraments stem from.

5. Which Christian Doctrine is the foundation of the Sacraments?

The doctrine of the Word becoming flesh and dwelling among us, is the foundation of the Sacraments.

6. Explain what the gobs of modern “spirituality” tells us?

They tell us that God is extended ether in the cosmos and would never sully himself with the crudeness of matter, and that the spiritual dwell in realm of things unknown to the lesser evolved.

7. Explain the Christian repudiation of “such spirituality snobbery.

God likes matter a lot, because he declared it good during creation and manifested himself in it, and also became human.

8. “But that was so that he could put this gross body of flesh to death on the Cross and revert back to pure spirituality, wasn’t it?” Answer and Explain.

His death was an example that when we die we will live again. We also will become resurrected and liberated from the earthly bondage, and we will live again looking like human beings instead of spook beings.

9. Explain: “That is why the sacramental worldview sees more than just a symbol in a sacrament”

God didn’t created the world to show it off instead he created it to participate in it. These sacraments impart grace like Jesus imparted miracles and the Holy Spirit.

10. Explain what G.K. Chesterton said:

G.K. Chesterton says that the sacraments focus God’s grace on specific things instead of taking it away. The sacraments are there so you won’t be overwhelmed with all that grace. They are your lens that make the grace more focused and clear.

11. What does grace do?

Grace brings God to us. This is how he shows his love, not by sending letter but by being apart of our lives.