Sentences with phrase «church after his resurrection»

What was true of Christ's work in the Church after His resurrection was already true of His words and works in the flesh.

Not exact matches

Right... because the good christian right would much rather have a man whose church supported polygamy, believe that Jesus popped over to the US after the resurrection, and will return again in Missouri.

'» If by days, we understand years and by sanctuary, the church, than cleansed, Miller thought, «we may reasonably suppose means that complete redemption from sin, both soul and body, after the resurrection when Christ comes the second time «without sin unto salvation.

Yet, in the fourth Gospel, we are told that when Jesus joined the disciples in the upper room after the resurrection «he breathed on them and said to them, «Receive the Holy Spirit»» (John 20:22), establishing a direct (and almost too obvious) connection between him and the amazing Power of the early church.

After Jesus» death and resurrection, Jesus himself became the focus of the church's preaching.

Indeed, by the time that Paul wrote his letter to the Romans, only a generation after the resurrection of Jesus, the church in Rome was already mostly gentile.

After Christ's Death, Resurrection, and Ascension, the Church, which has its origins in the Trinity itself (cf Dominum et Vivificantem), is sanctified through the sending of the Spirit in order that she can be «Christ's continuing presence in the world».

The church affirmed an increasingly detailed body of authoritative Christian doctrine in which hope for the world to come had been subtly transferred to a distant future, to be reached only after death and resurrection.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church sees the power of the keys that Jesus promised to Peter alone in Matthew 16:19 as signifying authority to govern the house of God, that is, the Church, an authority that Jesus after his resurrection confirmed for Peter by instructing him in John 21:15 — 17 to feed Christ's sheep.

Lumen Gentium, the Constitution on the Church, reads: «This is the one Church of Christ which in the Creed is professed as one, holy, catholic, and apostolic, which our Savior, after his Resurrection, commissioned Peter to shepherd, and him and the other apostles to extend and direct with authority, which he erected for all ages as «the pillar and mainstay of the truth.»

The three stages of Christian existence are thus sketched out: first is the time of the manifestation of God's glory through Christ to the disciples; second is the new form of presence of Christ in the church after his death and resurrection (this is where John was, and where we are now); finally, there is the consummation of the church in the perfect love of the presence of God.

It is clear that the church is comfortable in calling Jesus the Messiah only after his death on the cross and his resurrection and exaltation, At this point he is no longer a prospective military conqueror like David.

It is eternity breaking into time in the presence of Jesus in his ministry, and after his death and resurrection in the presence of the Spirit within the church.

It is this difference in theological outlook, according to Lohmeyer, which explains the alternation of Galilee and Jerusalem as the scene of the appearances of Jesus after his resurrection; and the probability is now enhanced and supported by his study of the traditions relating to the two centers in the apostolic church.

The early church, formed in the hope which blossomed after his resurrection, lived in the expectation that Jesus would return any day to fulfill this good news.

The followers of Jesus were the Church, before and after his death and resurrection.

In Deus Caritas Est, Pope Benedict describes how, in the first few centuries after the resurrection, the Church was known for its acts of charity.

The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church states: 1 «Christ announced the necessity of a spiritual regeneration «of water and the spirit» in his conversation with Nicodemus, and it has been commonly held that he instituted the Sacrament either at an unspecified date before His passion or after his resurrection, when he gave the disciples the command to baptise in the Threefold Name.»

After working for a bank, he studied for the priesthood at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, but decided his vocation lay outside the church.