Sentences with phrase «protestant ecclesial communities»

The whole world may come to participate more or less imperfectly in the universal mission of Christ and the Church: the Eastern Orthodox churches, Protestant ecclesial communities, the Jewish people, Islamic monotheism, the great world religious traditions that are not always explicitly monotheistic, and even secularists through the workings of the moral conscience by which human beings are led to seek the true and the good.

The SBC, with about fifteen million members, is the largest Protestant ecclesial community in this country.

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'» Conversely, Cardinal Koch says, «the vision that I find today in the Protestant churches and ecclesial communities (is that) of the mutual recognition of all ecclesial communities as churches.»

He says about «the various Protestant denominations and ecclesial communities» that «their churches are viewed as human constructs of voluntary association.»