Sentences with phrase «ecclesiologies say»

God retains his sovereign freedom to call «No People» his people and a church, even while those with better ecclesiologies say they are not a church.

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These charisms may well be called the democratic aspects of the Church, especially as it is evident from dogmatic ecclesiology as well as from church history that this freely working Spirit can be active not only in the official ministry of the Church but also in every individual of the demos, that is to say of the people of God.

The emphasis of Vatican II is on the Church as sacrament, which, he says, is of «foundational importance» to the ecclesiology of the council, appearing four times in Lumen Gentium and six times in other documents of the council.

I don't understand how you can say you're not setting up boundaries, when — as far as I can see — a large minority of your cartoons criticise mainstream ecclesiology?

In the context of Catholic ecclesiology, for the pope to say, before a viewing audience of millions, that abuse cases were «sometimes very badly handled» was a dressing down, although not as severe as some had hoped for.

As for Matthew Levering's fears of a «twofold ecclesiology» if we embrace a special identity for Messianic Jews in the Church, he should read what John Paul II had to say about the twofold composition of the Church, that is, the East and the West.

What has been said makes no claim to have underlined all those factors of devotion to the Church which are contained in the schema on the Church and which on the one hand are dogmatically enduring features of ecclesiology and on the other are likely to stand out particularly in future devotion to the Church.

But so too did the repressive authoritarianism of post-Tridentine Catholicism, the emergence of a Catholic ecclesiology inimical to true communitas by its overemphasis on clerical power and centralized authority, and the acceptance into Catholic theology, philosophy, and anthropology of a dualistic Cartesianism every bit as inimical to the medieval intellectual and moral synthesis (if such a thing can be said to have existed) as anything that emerged from Wittenberg or Geneva.