The Human Being and Ritual

Tabita Landová; Michaela Vlčková

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Chapter 4 The Human Being and Ritual

In: Who Is the Human Being? An Ecumenical Approach to Theological Anthropology

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Tabita Landová

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Pages:: 105–128

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004741799_007

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The fourth chapter engages with ritual, interpreting it as the mother tongue of religion. Using Christian sacraments, especially baptism, as an example, it shows how the relationship to God, embodied life, and the spoken word form, in ritual, one whole, and it explains how the human being who enters into ritual and acts ritually can be changed by the word and how the tradition where the ritual takes place can be revitalised in the body. It argues that ritual action not only expresses the religious experience of believers but that it also awakens, forms, and transforms it.

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Who Is the Human Being? An Ecumenical Approach to Theological Anthropology

Series: Studies in Theology and Religion, Volume: 36

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004741799

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 06 Nov 2025

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Part 1 We Are Born into a Life that Was Here Before Us

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