Sentences with phrase «church triumphant»

Here the Church Militant met with the Church Triumphant and earthly pilgrims were rapt into the company of the saints in heaven.

That we are all separated from God and Christ to varying degrees, and will only be one with him in the Church Triumphant?

We can not pray the psalms without realizing in a very special manner the communion of the saints, the oneness of the Church militant and the Church triumphant.

We also interpret the texts with a view to how the Church triumphant has spoken, interpreted and preached throughout its now 2000 year legacy.

But the church also is not confined to those who are members of it now, for it has included the great company of those who have «kept the faith» and are part of what traditional theology calls «the church expectant» and «the church triumphant.»

In Christian history this has been generally referred to as the communion of saints, and a far - reaching piety has been cultivated on the basis of a real linkage between those on earth (the church militant), those in the interim state (the church suffering), and those in heaven (the church triumphant).

Not exact matches

Thirdly, his chair is celebrated because from it he tasted the church of the triumphant precisely through his martyrdom.

Voragine also notes that the feast is an exaltation of the Church militant, malignant, and triumphant.

The sick person faces death in the company of the church militant and triumphant through viaticum and the anointing with oil.

And contrary to those inclined to see a triumphant tale of Christianity emerging from communism, today's Church remains plagued by the same ills it has borne for centuries.

In Christian teaching the Church is often spoken of as «militant, expectant, and triumphant» — as the Church in this world of time and space, as the Church as it awaits final fulfillment, and as the Church «in heaven.»

But other elements of the musical trend — its emphasis on the personal connection between the believer and God, its popular bent, its triumphant spread through the churches, and the very fact that many of the «frozen chosen» find the music divisive and beneath them — would probably strike the early Pentecostals as warmly reassuring.

Obviously the churches in the lands which had once been ruled by the Byzantine Empire were on the defensive against the triumphant Turk.

What it has, is the imprementeur of The Holy Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church, Militant, and Triumphant.

Within the church today there is too much preoccupation with «not making proselytes» or «not engaging in apologetics,» as though we were still in the age of a socially triumphant church using propaganda against poor and defenseless innocents.

Rarely, if ever, in the history of the church have so many firm periods slumped into commas and so many triumphant exclamation points curled into question marks.

What the Roman mass has been saying in glorious drama through the centuries is that in the sacrificial death and triumphant resurrection of Christ, ever repeated through the most solemn rites of the Church, the God who has acted in him for our redemption is here at the altar and will act again and now for those who seek him in true penitence and faith.

Acoemetae Adelophagi Adventist Movement amillennialism Amish Anabaptism Arminian Theology Assemblies of God Augustinians Baptists Benedictines Cahenslyism Calvinism Capuchins Carmelites Christadelphians Christian Identity Church of Christ Church of England Church Universal and Triumphant Congregationalism Coptic Christianity dispensationalism Dominicans Eastern Orthodox Episcopal Church Ethiopian Christianity Evangelicalism Franciscans fundamentalism Gnosticism Huguenots Hutterites IURD Jehovah's Witnesses Liberation Theology Lutheran Church Mainline Protestant Maronites Mendicant Orders Mennonites Methodism Neo-Orthodoxy Old Catholic Movement Pentecostal Church People's Temple Pietism Pilgrims postmillennialism premillennialism Presbyterian Church Primitivism Protestant Puritanism Quakers Quietism Roman Catholicism Sabbatarianism Scholasticism Shakers Spiritual Baptists staret Thomas Christians Thomism Transcendentalism Trinitarianism Unification Church Unitarian Universalist Unitarianism United Church of Christ

Americans believe in a vanished golden age when people attended church regularly, when families were cohesive and when virtue reigned triumphant.

The evangelical groups include Pentecostals, Nazarenes, the Bible Temple, the Triumphant Church of Jesus Christ, Defenders of the Faith, Christian and Missionary Alliance, Free Methodists, Youth for Christ and Youth with a Mission.

Since I last wrote on this subject, in the period approaching the Pope's triumphant visit (which, like many others, I was very concerned that this issue would be used by the Dawkins / Tatchell coalition to wreck) work has continued within the Church to understand the problem.

So whatever I do, when united with the doing of Jesus, however small the effort or hidden the suffering, makes its impact felt throughout the whole church, militant, expecting and triumphant.

In some respects Christianity is confronted with a greater menace than in the tragic decades when the triumphant Arabs, champions of a new religion, Islam, were establishing governments in what had been professedly Christian areas and through the machinery of the state were slowly strangling the churches and eradicating Christianity.

The Church Universal and Triumphant is a religious organization founded in 1975 by Elizabeth Clare Prophet.

The Shelter Cycle tells the story of two children, Francine and Colville, who grew up in the Church Universal and Triumphant, a religion that predicted the world could end in the late 1980s.

I had not previously heard of the Church Universal and Triumphant, but I have heard of their leader who was Elizabeth Clare Prophet.

The Summit Lighthouse is the «outreach arm» of the Church Universal and Triumphant, and publishes books, holds youth retreats, and operates online «Ascension» courses through Summit University.