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Sacramentarian
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Sac·ra·men·tar·i·an  (skr-mn-târ-n)
n.
One who regards the consecrated bread and wine of the Eucharist as only the metaphorical, and not the physical, body and blood of Jesus.
adj.
1. Of or relating to Sacramentarians.
2. Of or relating to sacramentalism or sacramentalists.

Sacra·men·tari·an·ism n.

Sacramentarian [ˌsækrəmɛnˈtɛərɪən]
n
1. (Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) any Protestant theologian, such as the Swiss Reformation leader Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531), who maintained that the bread and wine of the Eucharist were the body and blood of Christ only in a figurative sense and denied His real presence in these elements
2. (Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) one who believes in sacramentalism
adj
1. (Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) of or relating to Sacramentarians
2. (Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) (not capital) of or relating to sacraments
Sacramentarianism  n


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Baptists are in conscience compelled to reject and oppose sacerdotalism that puts a priest between a soul and Christ; and sacramentarianism that makes external ordinances in themselves, vehicles of grace; and ecclesiasticism that puts a church between a sinner and salvation.
Only later generations separated the outer act from the inner experience, and this development made possible the rise of sacramentarianism on the one hand and the entire rejection of the sacraments on the other.
 
 
 
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