What is the sacramental theology?

In Roman Catholicism and some other Christian groups, the sacramental theology of faith is that God provides humanity through certain external acts that Christ introduced. The seven sacraments of Roman Catholicism are the sacraments of baptism, the Eucharist, the reconciliation, the confirmation, the marriage, the holy orders and the anointing of the sick. Some Christian groups may recognize at least some of these sacraments, but many others refer to them as "regulations" rather than sacraments and differ in their understanding of grace expressed through them.

Theology has developed during the Middle Ages. The word sacrament comes from the Latin meaning "what produces holiness". It was first used as in Christian theology as a translation of the Greek Musterion or "Secret". The term sacrament was used freely in early church history, because some writers referred to the "sacrament of work" or "the sacrament of the Lord's prayer", of which no Hjak was recognized as one of the official sacraments of the Church. Augustine, wrote in FriThe ame of the century A.D. defined the sacraments as a "visible form of invisible grace". Later, Thomas Aquinas improved this definition and referred specifically to the actions of Christ for sanctification, a definition that persists until modern times.

In sacramental theology, sacraments are considered not only to represent sanctification, but to be the means by which the sanctification is achieved. The best -known example is Catholic Eucharist or Communion ceremony, which is assumed that bread and wine literally become the body and blood of Christ than only their symbols. This belief is known as transubstantiation. Transubstantiation is a believer who eats and drinks a literal body and Christ's blood, sanctified or made of holy.

All head Christian groups practice baptism and community in a certain form, and some also recognize confirmation and marriage as ceremonies of the Church. However, many Protestants teachRather, the "theology of the regulation" rather than the sacramental theology. According to this faith, baptism, communion and other practices of the Church are not real means that people receive grace, but are a representation or reminder of grace that comes through faith. Some Protestants believe that Catholic sacramental theology is defective because it means that salvation comes more than faith. They can also refrain from reference to the water used for baptism or bread used for communities as holy in itself, but rather call them representation of holy objects.