RELI 1730 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Effective Action, Passover Seder, Anglican Sacraments
14 Mar 2017
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Invigoration whereby the community attempts by its own concerted and regimented effort, to galvanize its moribund condition and to procure that new lease of life. For purposes of illustration, we will focus on one classic example, the new year (akitu) Effective action is essential to sacraments: sacraments like initiation ceremonies, are performative in the sense that they actually accomplish some thing; they change the status or condition of the participants. In many sacramental religions, such as roman catholicism, the efficacy of sacramental rites is not fundamentally dependent on the individual"s subjective condition or feelings. Jews celebrate this every spring (date varies from year to year based on the lunar calendar). It this case, it narrates the great events recounted in exodus. In the passover meal, there is a deep mixture of memory, worship and hope: to celebrate the passover is to become ritually one with those who first observed before leaving.
