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Symbolic action in which the central mysteries of a religious faith are enacted and which, on some accounts, confers divine
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A Dictionary of the Bible (2 ed.)
From the Latin ‘sacramentum’, meaning an oath, as taken by men joining the Roman army. Already by the
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Any of certain solemn religious acts, usually associated with Christianity. The Lat., sacramentum (in secular usage, ‘oath’), acquired this technical
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
With Latin sacramentum rendering Greek mystērion, the medieval western church came to recognize seven ritual actions as ‘sacraments
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
Reformation controversies over the sacraments were rooted in a common medieval heritage of theology and liturgy. The diversity in this
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The Oxford Companion to the Bible
The term is not found in the New Testament, though the Vulgate sometimes uses sacramentum to render the Greek word
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Robert F. Taft, Alexander Kazhdan, and Ioli Kalavrezou
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
