Sentences with phrase «apostolic church through»

Catholics (at least orthodox Catholics) understand themselves to be members of the most fully and rightly ordered expression of Christ's one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church through time.

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In a cultural environment where all authority is suspect and the notion of divine authority is thought to be a psychological hangover from the premodern world, the claim that divine authority is transmitted in an unbroken chain of apostolic succession through the bishops of the Church in communion with the bishop of Rome seems literally incredible.

Although there have been variations through history in the exercise of that governance, and may be further variations in order to accommodate a fuller expression of Christian unity, Catholics believe that Christ has endowed the Church with a permanent apostolic structure and an infallible teaching office that will remain until the Kingdom is fully consummated.

Since the Catholic Church believes in apostolic succession, they argue that the authority to forgive sins was passed down from the apostles through the Pope to the priests.

it maintains the original apostolic beliefs, while through the centuries the catholic church made some modifications.

The apostolic church likewise exercised its ministry through suffering.

Those of us who came to love God through these separated communions are correct to declare our faith in the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church.»

This consummation brings into history in ful lment the last, final dimension of infallibility in doctrine, moral truth and apostolic magisterium: it becomes the final and chief mark of the Church, because only through this mark of literal and genuine Divinity, is it possible to maintain the characteristics of unity, holiness, catholicity and apostolic authenticity.

I would emphasize, if anything even more strongly than Niebuhr, the empirical church, the communion of the saints that has come down in unbroken continuity from apostolic times, so that we see the resurrection through the eyes of the disciples, because they and all the intervening generations are still present to us.

This is a consistency guaranteed by the Lord himself: both in the unity of his Person and in the unity of his gift of inerrancy to the Church through the apostolic succession.

Thus a return to the tradition of the early church cuts through later accretions and developments, exposing the ways in which they have departed from apostolic intent while at the same time reviving the current practice of worship through the rediscovery of the apostolic intent preserved by the Fathers.

Through 30 years of teaching in seminaries I have become convinced that the church has largely failed in its mission of educating its people in the apostolic, biblical faith.

Luiz Ruscillo FAITH Magazine January - February 2007 Christ the Fulfilment of Wisdom «The Church, as early as apostolic times, and then constantly inher Tradition, has illuminated the unity of the divine plan in the twoTestaments through typology, which discerns in God's works of the OldCovenant prefigurations of what he accomplished in the fullness of timein the person of his incarnate son.»

One of the important truths which this very useful book underlines is the simple fact that as neither the Church nor the doctrine of the Church came to an abrupt end with the death of the last apostle and the conclusion of the New Testament, Greek itself well outlived the apostolic period and continued to enrich the Church through history, philosophy, theology, hymns and sermons for a long time after 100AD.