The arcane discipline present in the Eucharistic consciousness of the Church by protecting the Holy Eucharist against desecration
Vlad, Marian
Vlad, Marian
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Vlad, Marian
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disciplina arcani
Lord’s Supper
Baptism
canon
mysteries
discipline
church
Christian sacraments
Lord’s Supper
Baptism
canon
mysteries
discipline
church
Christian sacraments
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"Disciplina Arcani (“Instruction in the Sacred Secret”, i.e. initiation into the mystery): this term was first applied by Dallaeus and G. T. Meier to the practice of maintaining a studied reticence (fides silentii) concerning the form and character of introduction into the Church, as if it were something analogous to the initiation into the mysteries of the heathen world. The practice is especially observed in the fourth and fifth centuries. Baptism and the Lord's Supper, with the baptismal formula and the Lord's Prayer, played an essential part in the introduction, as they represented the center of the supposed mysteries. A theological term used to express the old discipline of the primary Church. This forbade the disclosure of Christian sacraments to non-Christians. The notion that defines this phenomenon is relatively modern and does not seem to have been used before the controversies of the seventeenth century when both Protestants and Catholics published works on the subject of the Old Church."
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2019-11-30
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10.18638/dialogo.2019.6.1.15
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