This week’s audioletter, “On Magic and Sacrament,” was prompted by a friend, “Julian,” who asked me how sacraments are different from magic. Being from a non-sacramental tradition himself, the sacramentalist view of the Eucharist struck him as, well, magical. — A priest performs a ritual that involves prescribed actions, words, and elements, and the rit…
Audioletter: On Magic and Sacrament
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