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	Sacerdotalism - Theopedia
		Sacerdotalism (from the Latin sacerdos - priest) is the belief in a priestly system where the priest has been given the special authority to act as a spiritual mediator between God and mankind.
		Although the priests are not supposed to be seen as better or more godly than others, their role in the sacraments of the church give them a special "mediatorial" role, as representatives of the Church (Christ's body on earth) and thus of Christ.
		The Reformers rejected the sacerdotal system altogether, and substituted for it the general priesthood of all believers, who have direct access to Christ as our only Mediator and Advocate, and are to offer the spiritual sacrifices of prayer, praise, and intercession.
	www.theopedia.com /Sacerdotalism (195 words)

	The Plan of Salvation - Part III (Sacerdotalism) Benjamin B. Warfield
		The explanation of Christianity in terms of sacerdotalism is unfortunately not confined in our day to the old unreformed Church from which Protestantism broke forth, precisely that it might escape from dependence on the Church rather than on God alone in the matter of salvation.
		But it remains sufficiently sacerdotal to confine the activities of saving grace to the means of grace, that is to say, to the Word and sacraments, and thus to interpose the means of grace between the sinner and his God.
		In the second place, sacerdotalism deals with God the Holy Spirit, the source of all grace, in utter neglect of his personality, as if he were a natural force, operating, not when and where and how he pleases, but uniformly and regularly wherever his activities are released.
	www.monergism.com /thethreshold/articles/onsite/WarfieldPlan03.html (3733 words)

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		Sacerdotalism is the establishment of a rigid hierarchy that separates man from God, the interjection of a "priestly" class between man and God, through whom the "layman" must go to reach God.
		Sacerdotal systems serve much more to cast the ministry of the layman into deep shadow, elevating the hierarchy and diminishing the masses.
		Nobody learns anything, nobody ministers; sacerdotalism is a trap that the professing church has fallen into, and which will drag her bragging into the tribulation period.
	www.web-grace.net /sacerdotalism.htm (3909 words)

	The Plan of Salvation - Part III (Sacerdotalism) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The explanation of Christianity in terms of sacerdotalism is unfortunately not confined in our day to the old unreformed Church from which Protestantism broke forth, precisely that it might escape from dependence on the Church rather than on God alone in the matter of salvation.
		But it remains sufficiently sacerdotal to confine the activities of saving grace to the means of grace, that is to say, to the Word and sacraments, and thus to interpose the means of grace between the sinner and his God.
		In the second place, sacerdotalism deals with God the Holy Spirit, the source of all grace, in utter neglect of his personality, as if he were a natural force, operating, not when and where and how he pleases, but uniformly and regularly wherever his activities are released.
	www.graceonlinelibrary.org /etc/printer-friendly.asp?ID=632 (3730 words)

	Protestant Sacerdotalism
		Nowhere is this more apparent than in the case of the popular minister where everything centers on him, and the whole life of the congregation is built round him.
		What is that but Protestant sacerdotalism, sacerdotalism which involves the displacement of the Humanity of Christ by the humanity of the minister, and the obscuring of the Person of Christ by the personality of the minister?
		How extraordinary that Protestantism should thus develop a new sacerdotalism, to be sure a psychological rather than a sacramental sacerdotalism, but a sacerdotalism nonetheless, in which it is the personality of the minister which both mediates the Word of God to man and mediates the worship of man to God!
	www.presenttruthmag.com /archive/XVII/17-4.htm (979 words)

	Sacerdotalism
		Sacerdotalism is the establishment of a rigid hierarchy that separates man from God, the interjection of a "priestly" class between man and God, through whom the "layman" must go to reach God.
		Sacerdotal systems serve much more to cast the ministry of the layman into deep shadow, elevating the hierarchy and diminishing the masses.
		Nobody learns anything, nobody ministers; sacerdotalism is a trap that the professing church has fallen into, and which will drag her bragging into the tribulation period.
	www.e-grace.net /webgrace/sacerdotalism.html (3909 words)

	SermonAudio.com - Edit Blog Entry
		Sacerdotalism throws him into the hands of the Church and asks him to put his confidence in it—or, in the indulgences, very specifically the Pope.” (ibid, 499).
		“What he here attacks is just the sacerdotal principle in one of its most portentous embodiments—the teaching that men are to look to the Church as the institute of salvation for all their souls’ welfare, and to derive from the Church all their confidence in life and in death.
		What he sets over against this sacerdotalism is the evangelical principle that man is dependent for his salvation on God and on God alone—on God directly, apart from all human intermediation—and is to look to God for and to derive from God immediately all that makes for his soul’s welfare.
	www.sermonaudio.com /winedit_news.asp?SourceMemberType=full&WhatsNewID=9091 (818 words)

	History of the Christian Church, Volume II: Ante-Nicene Christianity. A.D. 100-325. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		But these ministers are nowhere represented as priests in any other sense than Christians generally are priests, with the privilege of a direct access to the throne of grace in the name of their one and eternal high-priest in heaven.
		Tertullian was the first who expressly and directly asserts sacerdotal claims on behalf of the Christian ministry, and calls it "sacerdotium," although he also strongly affirms the universal priesthood of all believers.
		He may therefore be called the proper father of the sacerdotal conception of the Christian ministry as a mediating agency between God and the people.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/hcc2.v.vi.ii.html?bcb=0 (2515 words)

	Anti Sacerdotalism - September 1994 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Sacerdotalism is the belief in the holiness or higher spiritual level of a priesthood.
		Martin Luther recognized the true essence of Roman Catholicism: "The authority of the Roman Catholic Church is built on the sacraments as the exclusive channel of grace and on the exclusive control of these by the clergy.
		Thus he clearly recognized that sacerdotalism, the prerequisite for sacramentalism, leads to a papal, authoritarian church.
	www.steps2life.org /php/view_article.php?article_id=361 (2331 words)

	The Recovery of Worship \| TheResurgence
		Sacerdotalism is a theology of salvation through the priestly ordinances of the church.
		Sacerdotalism, in its essence, teaches that salvation is through these sacraments as administered through the priesthood.
		Thus they were careful, when they denounced sacerdotalism, not to denounce the sacraments of baptism and communion, which they saw revealed in the Scripture.
	theresurgence.com /r_c_sproul_1993-01_the_recovery_of_worship (5881 words)

	The Order of Decrees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The typical form of sacerdotalism is supplied by the teaching of the Church of Rome.
		The sacerdotal principle is present, however, wherever instrumentalities through which saving grace is brought to the soul are made indispensable to salvation; and it is dominant wherever this indispensability is made absolute.
		In direct opposition to the maxims of consistent sacerdotalism, he takes therefore as his mottoes: Where the Spirit is, there is the church; outside the body of the saints there is no salvation.
	www.mbrem.com /calvinism/pos1.htm (4008 words)

	Reformation Societies International
		Today, claims of the Church's exclusivity seem quaint and inconceivable, not least among Roman Catholics themselves, who are given to speak of even atheists being "anonymous Christians," and Eastern Orthodox and Protestant communicants as "separated brethren." Such incredulity testifies to Americans' ignorance of church history, because the statement goes back to the ancient Church.
		In short, the sacerdotal confusion of the mediation of Christ with the mediation of the church was a denial of solus Christus.
		It is rightly claimed by low church Protestants that the Reformers developed the distinction between the visible and invisible Church in part to refute the sacerdotal claims of Catholics.
	www.covenant.net /articles/sixthsola.htm (2810 words)

	Amazon.com: sacerdotalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		a sketch, therefore, of Roman sacerdotalism in the nineteenth cerl- tury...
		Historic records on the origin, progress, and characteristics of priestcraft, or, self-appointed sacerdotalism: With occasional remarks, chiefly in reference...
		The late charge of the Bishop of Salisbury considered: And, in regard of its fundamental doctrine of the sacerdotalism of the Christian Ministry, shown...
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=sacerdotalism&tag=lexico&index=blended&link_code=qs&page=1 (382 words)

	The Plan Of Salvation by Benjamin B. Warfield
		The question which is raised in sacerdotalism, in a word, is just whether it is God the Lord who saves us, or it is men, acting in the name and clothed with the powers of God, to whom we are to look for salvation.
		He may declare that all the power exerted in saving the soul is from God, but this is crossed by his sacerdotal consciousness that grace is conveyed by the means of grace, otherwise not.
		Indeed the leaven of sacerdotalism, taken over by Lutheranism from the old church in its doctrine of the means of grace, fatally marred from the first even the purity of its universalism, transmuting it into a mere indiscrimination, which is something very different; and has among the modern Lutherans given rise to very portentous developments.
	www.theologue.org /LecturesOnSalvation-BBWarfield.html (17468 words)

	UPC - INFANT BAPTISM
		It is important at the outset to state that the Reformed doctrine of baptism rejects all forms of sacerdotalism.
		Sacerdotalism is the doctrine that the sacraments in and of themselves infuse grace into the recipients.
		In other words, sacerdotalism claims that one is saved through the sacraments.
	www.upc-orlando.com /resources/written/doctrines/doctrine03.html (2115 words)

	Sacerdotalism Explained, by Eric Milner-White
		Protestantism gave the ancient word 'sacerdotalism' a new ugly sense, and did all it could to expel the glorious word 'priest' from the vocabulary, the creed, and the worship of Christians.
		Since we are the heirs of these sixteenth- century controversies and are accustomed to misuses of the words 'priest' and 'sacerdotalism,' we have to be careful not to have false ideas in our minds when we use them now.
		The Church then is through and through a sacerdotal body, because its Head, who is its life, is the supreme and perfect sacerdos: because it exists to do his work, to live and show forth his life of sacrifice and love, and so in him and through him to redeem the world.
	anglicanhistory.org /alexander/congress35.html (2630 words)

	The Sacramental Teaching of the Lord's Prayer
		If it were popularly called the Sacrament of Absolution we might attribute partly to the name any tendency to dwell over much on the purely sacerdotal side of the Sacrament, at the expense of that side which especially concerns the part the penitent has to perform.
		In spite of all the apparent dread of sacerdotalism it is astonishing to what lengths many are willing to go in attributing power to the mere words of Absolution, a power which they evidently regard as so great that it quite dispenses with the necessity of satisfaction, penance or even of confession.
		The wildest exaggeration of the Priestly Authority has never yet surpassed the sacerdotalism of the revivalist who takes it upon himself "to declare and pronounce" over a multitude of people a conditional Absolution, to take effect in each individual the moment any one chooses to apply it to himself.
	anglicanhistory.org /nashotah/larrabee/sacra5.html (1495 words)

	Religions of India
		It was the object of Buddha to break the yoke of the Brahmans, and to release his countrymen from the austerities, the sacrifices, and the rigid sacerdotalism which these ancient priests imposed, without essentially subverting ancient religious ideas.
		But with these views there is an exaltation of the Brahmanical or sacerdotal life, hard to be distinguished from the recognition of divine qualities.
		Then came in the natural human self-seeking of the sacerdotal class, for the multiplication of sacrifices tended to exalt the priesthood, and thus to perpetuate caste.
	www.worldspirituality.org /religion-india.html (6328 words)

	E. Belfort Bax: Socialism and Dogma (1899)
		Now, I contend that Sacerdotalism is not one whit more dangerous to the cause of Social Democratic progress than is another aspect of theological domination, to wit, Dogma, which is often found dissociated from what is usually termed sacerdotalism, though, of course, Sacerdotalism is never dissociated from Dogma.
		I think if this principle were to ally adopted and carried out, there would be no further danger, either from Sacerdotalism or from Dogma, and that the buildings themselves would soon peacefully fall to other uses than those for which they at present serve.
		In conclusion, I trust and believe that the day is not far distant when all Socialists will consciously proclaim their social creed to be their only religion because their highest ideal.
	www.marxists.org /archive/bax/1899/08/dogma1.htm (1488 words)

	History of the Christian Church, Volume VII. Modern Christianity. The German Reformation. \| Christian Classics Ethereal ...
		The saving grace of Christ is conveyed to men through the channel of seven sacraments, or "mysteries," administered by ordained priests, who receive members into the church by baptism, accompany them through the various stages of life, and dismiss them by extreme unction into the other world.
		The power of the mass extends not only to the living, but even to departed spirits in purgatory, abridging their sufferings, and hastening their release and transfer to heaven.
		They rejected the sacrifice of the mass, and the theory of transubstantiation, and restored the cup to the laity.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/hcc7.ii.vii.i.html (1037 words)

	Sacerdotalism
		Sacerdotalism is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		This exalting of the priesthood in the Christian church is based on the claim that the priest exercises sacrificial and supe
		One difficulty is to find the meaning of the original languages in which the scriptures were written.
	www.experiencefestival.com /sacerdotalism (618 words)

	SACERDOTALISM AND THE DEATH-BED / Warrant of Scripture on NT Priesthood
		The distinction between a Gospel death-bed and a sacerdotal is seen in the last hours of a British monarch.
		The Lord calls for water, but not to sprinkle it on the brow of the dying man. In the place of a preparatory sacrament there is a spiritual revolution.
		The whole scheme of Sacerdotalism is internal life created by external means - a priest, holy water, oil in unction; whereas the whole of real salvation is God recreating a soul through His Word gripped by the mind.
	website.lineone.net /~whtindle/Sacerdotalism-WarrantOfScripture.htm (6166 words)

	sacerdotalism - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		sacerdotalism : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
		SACERDOTALISM : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?loc=pub&w=sacerdotalism (170 words)

	The Priesthood of All Believers
		The doctrine of the priesthood of all believers opposes the unbiblical doctrine of sacerdotalism and the existence of a Brahman-like priestly class within the church.
		The difference between sacerdotalism and Reformation theology is seen when we ask the question "What must I do to be saved?" The Roman Catholic church would answer, "Look to the priesthood and the church." But the Bible says: "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved" (Acts 16:31).
		Roman Catholic theologians justified sacerdotalism by saying that Jesus gave the keys of the kingdom to Peter, the rock upon whom Jesus would build his church.
	www.gracevalley.org /articles/Priesthood.html (3250 words)

	The Priesthood of All Believers
		When Martin Luther posted his Ninety-five Theses on the door of the Castle Church of Wittenberg on October 31, 1517, he was declaring war against the idea that salvation was mediated through the priesthood via the sacraments.
		The difference between sacerdotalism and Reformation theology is seen when we ask the question "What must I do to be saved?" The Roman Catholic church would answer, "Look to the priesthood and the church." But the Bible says: "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved" (Acts 16:31).
		Cyprian treated "all the passages in the Old Testament which refer to the privileges, the sanctions, the duties, and the responsibilities of the Aaronic priesthood, as applying to the officers of the Christian Church."10 He completely failed to grasp the central thesis of the Epistle to the Hebrews.
	www.fundamentalpreaching.com /forums/post-5395.html (1170 words)

	Oxford Scholarship Online: Goodbye Father
		The chapter begins by trying to show that sacramentalism and sacerdotalism (the necessity for an ordained priesthood) are the primary and essential elements of the Catholic ministry because they represent structural forms whereby Roman Catholicism adapts to the transrational, spiritual elements of human development.
		They are also different in an additional way in that organized religion relies on two kinds of power: relative power (as in other types of organization), of which the social form is hierarchy, and corresponds to sacerdotalism; and absolute power, of which the social form is hierophany, and corresponds to sacramentalism.
		In the Roman Catholic tradition, the routinization of hierophany and its integration with hierarchy result in sacramental sacerdotalism.
	www.oxfordscholarship.com /oso/public/content/religion/0195082591/acprof-0195082591-chapter-5.html (257 words)

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