The Religious Consciousness; a Psychological Study
The Religious Consciousness; a Psychological Study
Pratt, James Bissett, 1875-1944
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. . . The little child baptised may never afterwards wholly escape from the real moral and social effects of the fact that his parents and the priest committed him to the Roman Catholic or to the Anglican communion. '' ^^ In like manner, the Catholic mass and the Protestant celebration of the Lord's Supper, the repeti- tion of the creed and the recitation of the prayer would be un- thinkable hypocrisies if performed by people who did not be- lieve that in these acts something very real was actu...ally hap- pening within or in relation to their own souls. " A great event, " says Coit, " is always taking place in the life of the *^ persons who are participating in any religious ritual. . . . There is no such thing as a ' mere ceremony ' of ritual : for 31 Op. Cit. Pp. 320-21. 32 Id. Pp. 329-30. FU:^CTIONS OF THE CULT 289 the moment it ceases to be an indispensable sign in the eyes of the community, it is not the sign at all. " ^^ The most sophisticated of all the functions of cult or public worship is direct and explicit instruction.
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