Sentences with phrase «first ecclesia»

In a word, he might be said to have formed the first ecclesia, the earliest church, called out from the doomed majority to be a redeeming minority.

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The current issue of the theological journal Pro Ecclesia features a helpful essay by Griffiths, a Duke professor and First Things contributor: «Is There a Doctrine of the Descent into Hell?»

In recognition of her achievements, Saint John XXIII awarded Mother Pascalina the papal honor Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice, and Saint John Paul II made certain her memoirs — first published in German and now in English — saw the light of day.

From October 7, 2004, to October 7, 2009, she and six other Benedictine sisters from around the world lived in Mater Ecclesiae praying for the pope - first for an ailing Pope John Paul II and then all the way through to the election and papacy of Pope Benedict XVI.

Hauerwas insists the first task of the church is to be a people, an ecclesia, called out from the world (the root meaning of ek - klesia), whose task is not first to change the world but to form a people who live in accordance with the nonviolent way of Jesus.

Yet, at the same time, the church first experienced itself as church, first used the word ecclesia to describe what it was.

But it was Augustine who first elaborated them carefully and, just as important, who first applied the Christian symbols of the cosmic drama — creation, fall, incarnation, ecclesia and eschatological end — to the structure and meaning of history, particularly of the history of the rise and fall of empires.

At issue is a very long article in the Winter 1998 issue of that excellent journal Pro Ecclesia written by Scott H. Moore, a philosopher at Baylor University, titled «The End of Convenient Stereotypes: How the First Things and Baxter Controversies Inaugurate Extraordinary Politics.»

First, despite my admiration for some medieval regimes, it remains my view that the era eventually lost its Augustinian and Gelasian sense that the secular power exists not only inside but also outside the ecclesia — not as merely natural, but to a degree inherently sinful and violent.

This was O'Connor's first «tat,» and she said this project has exemplified why she came to Ecclesia in the first place - acceptance, out - of - the - box thinking, diversity.