Sentences with phrase «lumen gentium»

(10) Indeed, the very process of developing Lumen gentium is an example of a participatory forum.

In the document Lumen gentium the Council sets forth the Church's revised understanding of her own nature.

In Lumen gentium, the Second Vatican Council referred to a multiplicity of «the abilities, the resources, and customs of peoples,» saying «each part contributes its own gifts to other parts and to the whole Church.»»

And third and most important, I'll speak about what we need to do, and how we need to live, going forward» in other words, how we might share our faith so fully and joyfully that we truly become God's lumen gentium, God's «light to the nations.»

Their faith «penetrates» the Word of God «more deeply by accurate insights and applies it more thoroughly to life» (Lumen gentium 12).

of the will and intellect» to designate obedience toward the hierarchical teaching authority creates problems, its exclusive application in Lumen gentium 25 to non-infallible teaching authority is still not clear.

Lumen gentium teaches that «Christ... has founded... his Holy Church»; «has made her visible framework... the dispenser of grace and truth»; «she is a society equipped with hierarchical organs and the Mystical Body of Christ, a visible assembly and a spiritual fellowship»; «we must not think of the Church as two substances, but a single, complex reality, the compound of a human and a divine element» (n. 8).