Sentences with phrase «ecclesial reality»

There is a congregational version of this local ecclesial reality.

In articles published in a variety of forums over the past two years, Farley has argued that the current organization of the theological curriculum corresponds to an ecclesial reality that no longer exists.

In its outward form, however, it would be an act by the council of episcopé representing the coming - into - being of a new ecclesial reality possessing the fullness of apostolicity and catholicity.

The ecclesial reality of the Church is intricately interwoven with its life as a moral community — it has to constantly test its authority to be the moral voice in the world against its ability to respond with courage and conviction to the voices of the excluded, the voices from the margins.

As Malloy writes, in reflecting on the uniqueness of the Catholic Church «one can affirm both the essential fullness of the ecclesial reality of the Catholic Church and the concrete poverty and woundedness of her lived life, together with her practical need of the expressive ecclesial riches found outside her visible boundaries.»

Not only did it recognize the ecclesial reality of other Christian churches, but it stated explicitly that «whatever is wrought by the grace of the Holy Spirit in the hearts of our separated brethren can contribute to our own edification.»

That Robert Benne wonders («The Neo-Augustinian Temptation,» March) why Stanley Hauerwas and friends write so glowingly about «ecclesial realities» is likely due to Mr. Benne's deficient grasp of ecclesiology, which he characterizes as «that formerly unexciting branch of systematic theology.»

Not exact matches

It might be objected here that one can not leap from sociological reality to ecclesial mission: the church is not called simply to follow sociologists» recipes for institutional growth.

It is not sufficient, however, to point out that there are innumerable ministries in the several Christian communities that insist on the objectivity of truth, the authority of Scripture and Spirit - guided interpretation, the ecclesial means of grace, and the reality of moral good and evil.

It is not sufficient, however, to point out that there are innumerable ministries in the several Christian communities that insist on the objectivity of truth, the authority of Scripture and its Spirit - guided interpretation, the ecclesial means of grace, and the reality of moral good and evil.

Ecclesial Man: A Social Phenomenology of Faith and Reality.

My point was that such ecclesial life can not be the sole reality in which we live or out of which we attempt to renew society.

The notion of the people, i.e.Minjung, and of small - scale movements and initiatives which represent them, is from the Christian point of view partly a socio - ecclesial vision in the sense of a theological appraisal of the church as social reality in the larger body politic, and partly eschatology in the sense of a vision of the ends worked out within, and ends which extend beyond, human history.

The ecclesial Body of Christ, Ratzinger observes, is that reality which Catholic theology traditionally calls the communio sanctorum — the Communion of Saints.