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  • 15 - Sacramental life

  • from PART IV - SHAPES OF A CHRISTIAN WORLD
  • Edited by Miri Rubin, Queen Mary University of London, Walter Simons, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Christianity
    Published online:
    28 March 2010
    Print publication:
    02 July 2009, pp 217-237

  • Summary

    Some time between 1445 and 1450 the Flemish artist Rogier van der Weyden painted three oak panels which have come to be known as the Seven Sacraments Altarpiece. Sacraments made palpable and visible the invisible and mysterious workings of grace. From Christ's life, through apostles who founded churches, and later through the pope of Rome, Peter's successor, a chain of sacramental action was created. The early medieval centuries saw relatively little discussion of sacramental theory, although individual sacraments did receive some attention and elaboration. In his treatise on the sacraments the Augustinian scholar Hugh of St Victor distinguished between the type of sacrament that prevailed in each phase of history: under natural law, under written law and under grace. Around 1250 Jean de Joinville composed a treatise on the sacraments before he embarked on Louis IX's crusade. The most important events were illustrated: baptism and the eucharist.