When 7 sacraments?

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arapahoepark

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When were the 7 sacraments standardized across all realms of Christianity? When did some of them make it in anyway? I ask since I was looking through a Coptic website and they have them but, didn't they have nothing to do with the catholics and orthodox after the council of chalcedon? So did the sacraments come before this?
 
Great questions. The earliest full set of the 7 comes from Hugh of Saint Victor work De Sacramentis. You then see it in Peter Lombard's Sentences book 4 and later in Thomas Aquinas' Summa. I been working on the connection with the east and west, but have not found the full connection yet. I know in the case of marriage that Augustine in the Good of Marriage and in Marriage and Concupiscence classified it as a sacrament and that something both the east and the west agree on. I say this because the east and the west has a couple of differences with their view of the seven, having a slightly different list. Hopefully this helps.

By the way the Coptics do view marriage a sacrament. And it should be noted that the seven came much after Chalcedon as reflected by the trail of the seven in which I just presented coming from the West.
 
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