Analysis Of Chapter Seven, Virtue In Action: The Royal...

Chapter seven, Virtue in Action: The Royal Priesthood, strives to address three questions regarding the development of virtues with emphasis on enacting a royal priesthood who anticipate the kingdom of God. Behaving and living as a royal priesthood includes habits of the heart and mind, these habits are the discussed in the first section of chapter seven. Once the habits have been identified it is relevant to discuss how to engage these habits in daily living; especially with concern to ethics and secular tradition. Vocations, a distinct calling every individual has, involve the shaping of the body and mind, this chapter also focuses on ways to avoid sinful behaviour and ultimately the quest to follow Jesus in the royal priesthood and achieve …show more content…
A sacrament, a defined by Wright, involves a mysterious accumulation of heaven interacting with life on earth, in doing so the heavenly narrative is transformed into a tangible substance accessible to humans (222). Not only is worship a critical element of an individuals faith journey, but it also bears learned communal merits. Regardless of our unique vocations, all Christians alike posses the invitation to gather and grow together through liturgy generating unity (223). Formal liturgy, as argued by the author, forms habits which through deliberate decisions alter the mind. Through the presence of praise and adoration directed to God, in formal liturgy, humans partake in the perpetual hymn of God’s exaltation as sung by the totality of creation (224). Worshippers are to be cautioned regarding the facility to participate in hollowed out rituals through action and repetitive recitations, to avoid such mannerism it is imperative that a conscious choice and effort be made ultimate achieve true authenticity (223). Being the principle, primary and perfection of personal and public virtues, with an emphasis on love, worship is essential in the process to becoming a fully functioning and morally mature believer

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Analysis Of Chapter Seven, Virtue In Action: The Royal Priesthood