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Most historians agree that the greatest Christian of the early 12th century was Bernard of Clairvaux, a man who excelled in all areas of Christian ministry and leadership. His powerful influence led to a renewed interest in and understanding of the humanity of Christ, and his deeply devotional emphasis served to recover an important part of Christian worship at a time when there had been considerable spiritual decline in the leadership of the Church. For more free resources, please visit www.brucegore.com
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Born in 1090, at Fontaines, near Dijon, France; died at Clairvaux, 21 August, 1153.
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What most interested me from this video presentation from Mr. Gore, for the context of this website, was Interdict.
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(Latin interdictum, from inter and dicere). Originally in Roman law, an interlocutory edict of the praetor, especially in matter affecting the right of possession; it still preserves this meaning in both Roman and canon law. In present ecelesiastical use the word denotes, in general, a prohibition.
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An interdict is a censure, or prohibition, excluding the faithful from participation in certain holy things. These holy things are all those pertaining to Christian worship, and are divided into three classes: the Divine offices, in other words the Liturgy, and in general all acts performed by clerics as such, and having reference to worship the sacraments, excepting private administrations of those that are of necessity; ecclesiastical burial, including all funeral services.
This prohibition varies in degree, according to the different kinds of interdicts to be enumerated:
First, interdicts are either local or personal; the former affect territories or sacred buildings directly, and persons indirectly; the latter directly affect persons. Canonical authors add a third kind, the mixed interdict, which affects directly and immediately both persons and places; if, for instance, the interdict is issued against a town and its inhabitants, the latter are subject to it, even when they are outside of the town (arg. cap. xvi, "De sent. excomm." in VI). Local interdicts, like personal interdicts, may be general or particular.
A general local interdict is one affecting a whole territory, district, town, etc., and this was the ordinary interdict of the Middle Ages; a particular local interdict is one affecting, for example, a particular church. A general personal interdict is one falling on a given body or group of people as a class, e.g. on a chapter, the clergy or people of a town, of a community; a particular personal interdict is one affecting certain individuals as such, for instance, a given bishop, a given cleric.
Finally, the interdict is total if the prohibition extends to all the sacred things mentioned above; otherwise it is called partial. A special kind of partial interdict is that which forbids one to enter a church, interdictum ab ingressu ecclesiae mentioned by certain texts. Omitting the mixed interdict, which does not form a distinct class, we have therefore:
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Mr. Gore explains that with Pope Gregory VII versus King Henry IV, the papacy placed an interdict on the Holy Roman Empire, therefore according to the Roman Catholic Church theology of the time, the Holy Roman Empire and its citizens were prohibited from taking part in the Roman Catholic sacraments and therefore outside of salvation.
Thankfully, biblically, the New Testament does not teach sacramental required salvation.
Rather, within various biblical Christian interpretations, the sacraments are indeed spiritual, but as a sign of obedience within salvation. Not a requirement for salvation.
In the New Testament sins are forgiven for salvation as the triune God (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) implements a plan of atonement for human sin through the death and resurrection of the incarnated God the Son, Jesus Christ. This salvific work is applied to chosen, believers by grace through faith through the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit. (See the Gospels, Romans, Galatians, Titus, Hebrews, as examples).
APA citation. Boudinhon, A. (1910). Interdict. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved October 22, 2018 from New Advent: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08073a.htm
