RELG 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ninety-Five Theses, Purgatory, 7 Letters

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 204
• Professor: Charles Douglas Fletcher

Document Summary

Ritual light and ritual heavy light tends to be protestant denominations. One thing that distinguishes the two is the significance that is given to rituals. Ex) in a ritual light, ritual baptism is considered something that the individual does, public confession of faith, desire to follow after god. The emphasis falls on the one who is baptized, their own commitment to god and conscience actions. In ritual heavy, the emphasis is rather what god is thought to do in the ritual. God is thought to set this person right, thought to sanctify this person, and bring this person into the community of faith. The ritual is thought to mediate god"s actions. The major expression of christianity is european christianity. Events are happening in europe at the time, because the specific situation in europe caused protestantism: the church had been in charge of people"s political existence for thousands of years.