Sentences with phrase «cadentis ecclesiae»

Only when faith is controlled by its object and riveted to Christology does it become the articulus stantis et cadentis ecclesiae.

When the Reformers made sola fide the articulus stantis et cadentis ecclesiae, they meant by faith in Jesus Christ, fides Jesu (objective genitive).

A relatively small number of Protestant theologians are exercised by a sixteenth - century dispute over «justification by faith alone,» and claim that it is the articulus stantis et cadentis ecclesiae.

The claim that «justification by faith alone» is the articulus stantis et cadentis ecclesiae (the doctrine by which the Church stands or falls) is a distinctly minority position among Protestants who call themselves evangelicals.

[3] This doctrine was later given pride of place in the Lutheran ecclesial communities for Luther himself said that it was the «articulus stantis et cadentis ecclesiae» (article by which the Church stands or falls).