Sentences with phrase «church body as a whole»

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Theologies of play and of the body could be understood as the church's teaching on these topics, although in fact they tend to call for some shift in Christian thinking as a whole based on attention to what can be learned as one takes play or the body seriously.

The liturgy is being re-established little by little, in the minds of God's people as the corporate worship not just of the local but of the whole Body of Christ, the universal Church, reaching across time and space and into heaven itself:

Even in some regions where there does not yet exist an official ecumenical body, the churches work together effectively in this field, and this naturally increases ecumenical cooperation as a whole.

What the Church knows as the descent of Christ into Hell is not, according to Blake's vision, a descent apart from the body, but rather a descent into the very depths of bodily repression, a descent that is only consummated in the identification of Jesus» «Satanic Body of Holiness» with the totality of the cosmos, and its consequent presence as the redemptive fire of passion throughout the whole body of humanbody, but rather a descent into the very depths of bodily repression, a descent that is only consummated in the identification of Jesus» «Satanic Body of Holiness» with the totality of the cosmos, and its consequent presence as the redemptive fire of passion throughout the whole body of humanBody of Holiness» with the totality of the cosmos, and its consequent presence as the redemptive fire of passion throughout the whole body of humanbody of humanity.

But in the mystical body of the Church, the surplus humanity that Christ finds in each of the members of this his body is called upon, insofar as each is a part of the whole, to participate in the work of this body, which is the redemption continued throughout time.

There is hardly any other so well organized and so widespread a body as the Catholic Church in the whole world.

Secondly, they are not made for the Church so far as it is an exclusive body with a limited membership; but for the Church as «catholic» or universal, ideally identified with the whole human race as «redeemed» through Christ.

The Eastern Orthodox are prepared to include in the body of the Church in this extended sense the whole cosmos, even the natural order, quite as much as human existence on this planet.

At Jerusalem itself the continued presence of the majority of the apostles simplified the question of authority, because they seem to have acted on all important questions as a body which sought and obtained the consent of the Church as a whole (Acts 6: 12 - 16, 15:22) under the joint guidance of the Spirit (Acts 15:28, cf. 6:3).

The concept of the church as the body of Christ in the whole world is another growing development for me.

A vital and practical program of evangelism and missions that encourages believers to get involved in spreading the Gospel of Jesus, locally and internationally, is important to not only that church, but the Body of Christ as a whole.

Because Protestantism as a whole defines the body of Christ as an invisible entity, this can create confusion over the relationship between the visible church and the invisible church.

By emphasizing a doctrine of Christ without the whole perspective of the Trinity, theology developed in a very one - sided way and has come to be pre-occupied with the church as the body of Christ, with its structure, hierarchy, and its rules and regulations.

We shall see presently the place of our Lord Jesus Christ in this whole context, the utter necessity of the Church as the mystical Body of Christ, and the inescapable reality of «the resurrection of the body, and the life of the world to come.&raBody of Christ, and the inescapable reality of «the resurrection of the body, and the life of the world to come.&rabody, and the life of the world to come.»

«As a sacrament of the Church, marriage... [is] a word of the Spirit which exhorts man and woman to model their whole life together by drawing power from the mystery of the «redemption of the body».

Taken literally, Paul VI's words seem to rule out all possibility of finding any considerable body of truth outside the church and place in jeopardy the whole subject of the dialogue, seen as honest exchange.

The task of the church as «body» is to implement this cosmic principle with the concrete preaching of the gospel to the whole world and especially to the Gentiles (Col. 1:27; Eph.

In the church as the body of Christ the cross came to mean the extending of self - denial to incorporation into a community where the personal religious quest of each member was subordinated to the upbuilding in love of the whole.

Anyway, we must acknowledge that christianity has built up on bodies of innocent people (as almost any other human institution), wether we talk about individual churches, denominations, the whole christendom, etc..

This included the Baptists, Lutherans, Reformed, «the Protestant Methodist church,» and «the whole body of the New England Puritans» as well as the Presbyterian churches.77

The vivid imagination and the sharp observation of men and nature that marked his mind; his acquaintance with common speech and his joy in the use of proverbs; indeed, his capacity to express in creative speaking with a skill that only a poet and genius possesses the whole range of human emotions from awe in the presence of the numinous to the feelings of the body — all are reflected in his sermons (as also in the commentaries, his work of the lecture room), not consistently, of course, and not every time, yet most impressively in the Church Postil Sermons, one of the products of his exile on Wartburg Castle, written in order to furnish to the preachers of the Reformation examples of Biblical preaching.

It is clear that each of these churches had a body of elders and a corps of deacons; but presiding over both and over the congregation as a whole is the bishop.