Preliminary communication
Elements of hidden sacramentality in the theology of Covenant
Niko Ikić
orcid.org/0000-0001-5634-0387
; University of Sarajevo - Catholic Theological Faculty in Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Abstract
The Catechism of the Catholic Church sees the sacraments both as „the masterworks of God“ in the new and everlasting covenant, as „powers that come forth“ from the ever-living and life-giving Body of Christ, and as actions of the Holy Spirit at work in his Body, the Church. The Catechism’s „new and everlasting covenant“ is here intended as a theology of covenant and represents a starting point, a framework and a guideline for the theology of the sacraments. The very idea of „covenant“ in theology is not new: what is new is the practice of linking it directly with the sacraments of the Church.
The theology of covenant represents the basis and the characteristic of the Church’s sacramentality, ecclesiality, and sacraments in the Church. Everything is directed toward eschatology, the covenant, the Church, the sacraments. The aim of this paper is to discover the inseparable effective relational connection and ontological-theological interdependence of the theology of the covenant and the theology of the sacraments, without the intention of equalizing them contentually or qualitatively, but to connect them in a complementary and sucessive way. The paper first presents the main foundations of the theology of the covenant in the Old and the New Testament, with similarities and differences, then relationally in parallels that point up the successive and interrelated nature of the theology of the
sacraments in the theology of salvation.
Keywords
Covenant; Sinai Covenant; theology of the conevant; theology of the sacraments.
Hrčak ID:
260481
URI
Publication date:
1.7.2018.
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