Sentences with phrase «ecclesial vision»

From this we learn that the beatific vision does not cancel out our personality or God's, but rather gives us the measure by which we may understand all human possibility, and it places sociability at the heart of divine union, It is a profoundly ecclesial vision.

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.

Liberation theology's development has been driven not just by the genesis and clash of concepts, the back and forth of academic argument, but by the clash of ecclesial visions and superpowers, and the simple struggle to survive.

Not exact matches

Their goal was to connect those drawn to Hauerwas's vision from various ecclesial traditions and to link them for friendship and the sharing of ideas so they might better serve their own churches.

Yet his vision for the church compels him to help others with specifically ecclesial gifts to raise up patches of nonviolent resistance to the war - making power of the state and to the tendency of churches to bless that power.

'» 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.»

In the authentically Catholic vision of the Second Vatican Council, the source of authority for the transmission of Revelation is Jesus Christ Himself, the Word of God made flesh for us, handed down to us in Scripture and ecclesial Tradition.

The spirituality of many of the new ecclesial movements is deeply embedded in a Trinitarian anthropology which assumes the vision of Gaudium et Spes 22.

Such pneumatology underlies Augustine's broad vision of ecclesial reconciliation and led him to reject the Donatists» false notion of episcopal mediation.

It is only through a new vision of creation, salvation and ecclesial sanctification, as one wisdom of God in the Logos made flesh, that we can revindicate Christian revelation.

Perhaps what's most interesting about his new book - The Difference God Makes: A Catholic Vision of Faith, Communion, and Culture (Crossroad, 384 pages, $ 26.95)- is the sheer fact of it, for no one besides Cardinal George has both the talent and the ecclesial weight to attempt what he's after in the book.

The Church in India is in a privileged position, because of its situation in the midst of other religious traditions, to work out new ecclesial structures which translate the vision of the Kingdom.

In this issue Niall Gooch analyses the resulting ecclesial uncertainty and, inspired by a seminal vision handed down to us, we respond to some pressing questions relating to doctrine, belief and catechesis (cf. our Truth Will Set You Free column, our lead letter and especially our editorial).

Martha is alive and well at countless meetings at which there is no vision, consultations at which there is no passion for an authentic ecclesial life, planning groups in which there is no strategy based on the Gospel.