Second, we need a sacramental understanding, one that is hard to find in a lot of contemporary Christian settings. Simply put, and moving from my first argument, a sacramental theology accepts that reality is charged with hidden meaning, that the divine is mediated for us through physical things (as in the sacramental wine and bread), God moving from His realm into ours, and doing it like a breeze on a summer’s day, into the physical through the physical.
