Sentences with phrase «apostolic church on»

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We believe in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church, built by Jesus Christ on that rock which is Peter.

Peter and Paul in 2010, Pope Benedict stated that PopeJohn Paul represented the Church's missionary nature not only with his apostolic journeys, but also «with the insistence of his Magisterium on the urgent need for a «new evangelisation»: «new» not in its content but in its inner thrust, open to the grace of the Holy Spirit which constitutes the force of the new law of the Gospel that always renews the Church; «new» in ways that correspond with the power of the Holy Spirit and which are suited to the times and situations; «new» because of being necessary even in countries that have already received the proclamation of the Gospel.»

And when he was called home to the Father's house, he had oriented the Church toward the strategic goal John XXIII had defined on October 11, 1962: the reform of Catholicism for a third millennium of evangelical and apostolic action, for the healing of the world.

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.»

His review touched on other points to be discussed below and ended with an invitation to join him «in thanksgiving for the encouraging results of this apostolic visit» in the prayer that it «produces abundant fruits for the Church in the United States and all the world.»

That, of course, is also the proposal of the apostolic constitution on Catholic higher education, Ex Corde Ecclesiae (From the Heart of the Church), which Coughlan does not mention.

The apostolic church, in reflecting on Jesus the Messiah, the Suffering Servant, the Victor, came to understand him preeminently as the Peacemaker between God and humanity and between the divisions within humanity.

A point on which biblical scholars are agreed is that in the preaching and teaching of the apostolic church, it was Jesus himself as Christ the Lord, the Son of God, the Savior that became the central message.

So two points, there is some requirement if you follow apostolic precedent, second feel free to work second shift or do like the Christians in Egypt do and go to church at 5:00 am so they can work a full day on Sunday!

Whether we say that the apostolic preaching was modelled on that of Jesus, or that the evangelist formulated his summary of the preaching of Jesus on the model of that of the primitive Church, at any rate the two are identical in purport.

The Catholic Church claims that the authority of the Pope is based on apostolic succession.

Such a «right» of «faithful dissent» has long been claimed by Catholic progressives, not least with respect to Humanae Vitae, Paul VI's encyclical on the appropriate means of regulating fertility, and Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, John Paul II's apostolic letter reaffirming that the Church's authority to ordain extends only to men.

Keith R. Bridston, a former secretary of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches points out that the apostolic missionary outreach not only strained the territorial lines of unity identified with the original Jerusalem fellowship, but the success of the apostolic preaching among non-Jewish people meant that the unity of the church based on the ethnic homogeneity of the primitive fellowship of the Jewish disciples, had to be radically questioned and re-examined.

The sufficient evidence of this point in the case of the New Testament writings is that all of them have now been shown to depend on sources, written or oral, earlier than themselves, and hence not to be the original and originating witness that the early church mistook them to be in judging them to be apostolic.

Virtually nothing is known of his time in Antioch, but the letters he wrote to the churches as he journeyed to his death reveal many details of the apostolic Church, including docetist attacks on the humanity of Christ.

you can call yourself whatever you want baptist, born again, methodist, etc but you belong to the universal church where you get the word catholic which mens universal.there was one holy catholic apostolic church for 1500 years then father martin luther on his own authortithy not GODS decided to try and start his own which mutated into know 1000s of different competing groups with 1000s of different interprataions and ideas and much confusion.

[27] See for example Hans - Georg Link, ed., Apostolic Faith Today: A Handbook for Study, Faith and Order Paper No. 124 (Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1985), where it is pointed out that «this apostolic faith study is profoundly related to the convergence document on «Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry» and its reception process in the cChurches, 1985), where it is pointed out that «this apostolic faith study is profoundly related to the convergence document on «Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry» and its reception process in the churcheschurches.

The Word of God is what it is only in event, and the paradox lies in the fact that this Word is identical with the Word which originated in the apostolic preaching, which has been fixed in Scripture and which is handed on by men in the Church's proclamation; (In other words, a man just like myself speaks to me the Word of God: in him the Word of God becomes incarnate.

St. Irenaeus notes that the unity of the Church's teaching is founded on the truth of apostolic doctrine.

A pattern is set for all Paul's apostolic work, whereby his presence among the young churches has a remarkable effect on conversions, only to be undermined in his absence by the mistaken insights and follies of disloyal followers.

In this book the author «presents and comments on substantial excerpts from the major sources of the Church's Tradition extending all the way back to apostolic times».

The Kasper spin was then picked up by some of the usual media suspects, who called on the usual Catholic talking heads on the port side of the Barque of Peter, who took matters further by speculating that the apostolic exhortation would open up even more revolutionary paths, involving the Church's eventual acceptance of same - sex marriage and other matters on the LGBT agenda.

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