Sentences with phrase «ecclesial community»

Ker makes the point about the rise of ecclesial communities which have always existed in the Church — from the time of St Antony the Great to that of St Philip Neri's Oratory.

Christ's Spirit uses these Churches and ecclesial communities as means of salvation

The United Church of Canada, one third of it Presbyterian at its inauguration in 1925, at its 32nd General Council in l988, after much study and years of hot debate, made the kind of decision in the face of this issue that ought at least to be considered by other ecclesial communities facing it.

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

Then one must ask, what Church is it that exists in the Orthodox particular churches and in the non-Catholic ecclesial communities?

Our own time is rightly understood as a time of the martyrs, and it is a most encouraging development that Christians today increasingly recognize and revere those members of the several ecclesial communities who, in the century past and still now, offer the ultimate witness to the lordship of Christ.

How much ecclesial communities, or any other communities, have been practically strengthened by these movements is a question open to debate.

So none of the 30 - 40,000 ecclesial communities today that call themselves Christian can not claim to be the Church that the Bible speaks of.

Calvin, for example, denied that Roman Catholic ecclesial communities were churches (except in a very attenuated sense), because they failed to preach what he took to be the true Gospel.

Pioneer of the Catholic Lay Movement, forerunner of the new ecclesial communities, founder of the Madonna House Apostolate, Catherine Doherty was a prophet and poet of the Holy Spirit.

Among the Orthodox, according to Catholic doctrine, there are not just ecclesial communities but «particular churches,» although they are, in the language of CDF, «wounded» by the lack of full communion with the ministry of Peter exercised by the bishop of Rome.)

As for saying that these other associations are ecclesial communities rather than churches in the full sense — as, for instance, the «particular churches» of Orthodoxy are churches — this should cause no hard feelings.

[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).

Rather, the Lord Jesus is to gaze upon the faith of the entire ecclesial community.

Lernoux is concerned that such a pattern may undermine the most promising developments of 20th - century Catholicism, especially the base ecclesial communities of Latin America.

That I went to Yale in the mid - «60s is, I suspect, the reason I am subject to so many influences from so many different ecclesial communities, and so useful to such a wide range of groups.

The experience of Christian ecclesial communities that have adopted similar strategies in the past two centuries strongly suggests that those which compromised their Christian identity in one generation held little interest for subsequent generations.

It is a false dichotomy, in my view, which has hampered the witness of ecclesial communities on either extreme.

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.

After the late Council there did take place in the centres of higher learning in the Church this wholesale jettisoning of the traditional wisdom of the Church, and I am bound to say that the undue subordination of all things to Ecumenism helped the process on, for the theology of the non-Catholic ecclesial communities has long been enervated by the same rationalist principles.

• From its beginnings in 1992, Evangelicals and Catholics Together (ECT) has been very deliberately an unofficial project composed of a continuing working group of participants who speak from and to their several ecclesial communities.

What has happened to the ecclesial communities that they started?

I thought according to what I have seen you say many times, the other «ecclesial communities» aren't true and do not follow god.

You claim it isn't the One that Jesus founded yet you fail to tell us which one of the 38000 ecclesial communities is the one.]

We respectfully submit the following considerations and conclusions to the ecclesial communities and transdenominational fellowships of which we are part, with the hope that they will be received and examined as possible contributions to our better understanding of one another and our greater unity in Christ's truth.

If there is an ecclesial community that lays claim to all 7 Sacraments and if it is not the Catholic Church... then they would be lacking in some other area... No Apostolic succession, so no authority... or a Bible that was rewritten by a man so he could divorce his wife.

Not anyone from the Catholic Church or any of the ecclesial communities can claim to be the «pillar and foundation of Truth».

Ok, Iceman, which of the 30 - 40,000 ecclesial communities that call themselves Christian is Jesus» Church if you think it is not the Catholic Church?

not anyone from the Catholic Church or ecclesial communities can claim to be the Bride of Christ.

In the review, I found it difficult to understand how any ecclesial community could have real interpretive authority under these circumstances.

The ecclesial community must consider itself part of the human community which in turn must consider itself part of the cosmic community.

Jesus «gave up his Spirit» on the cross, which anticipates the gift of the Spirit to the «ecclesial community» in serving as the Lord served.

The emphasis on the ecclesial community, the Church, as a distinct society or, as he repeatedly says, as a «family» suggests that leitourgia, and especially the Eucharist, is, in fact, the enactment within history of the new politics for which the human heart yearns.

It has not brought the affluent West flocking back to these ecclesial communities.

This is the calling of every individual Christian and of the ecclesial community.

The sense of ecclesial community to which Adams refers is a key to understanding this group.

The present pope has shown much brother - feeling with «ecclesial communities» on the other side of the Western schism, and daring in liturgical sharing with them.

Nathaniel Peters («Thus Saith the Lord,» November) seems unaware that his plea for sacral English texts for use in the Catholic Church and other ecclesial communities has already been answered.

There are already 38000 ecclesial communities and perhaps you belong to one of them or are «on your own in your thinking» but regardless of where you stand, you are on unsure footing unless you are in the House of God, the Church that Jesus Christ founded, the pillar and foundation of Truth.

Accordingly, it is deeply implicated in the character of our ecclesial communities.

'» 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.»

The gist of these is that, with important qualifications related to Eastern Orthodoxy, non-Catholic churches are not to be called «Church» in the proper sense of the term but are better described as «ecclesial communities.»

Therefore communities of faith outside the Catholic Church are ecclesial communities.

They might further recognize that the presence of the Catholic Church in their ecclesial communities gravitates toward full communion with the Catholic Church.