Sentences with phrase «living apostolic church»

And the Protestant Christian knows that the New Testament originated in the apostolic kerygma of the living apostolic Church and therefore is and remains her book.

Not exact matches

For the consecrated life (as John Paul II taught in the 1996 apostolic exhortation Vita Consecrata) is the spiritual engine of the Church, in which the energies of evangelism are refined and shared in a great exchange of gifts by which the entire Church, the bride of Christ, strives for union with her divine spouse.

Beginning with Friedrich Schleiermacher in a letter published in 1807, biblical textual critics and scholars examining the texts fail to find their vocabulary and literary style similar to Paul's unquestionably authentic letters, fail to fit the life situation of Paul in the epistles into Paul's reconstructed biography, and identify principles of the emerged Christian church rather than those of the apostolic generation.

Moreover, it has almost changed its nature today because in human life it has widened so enormously, whereas the Church, being simply the teacher of the universal natural law and of apostolic tradition, can not do more than proclaim general principles.

Whatever is unique in the Episcopal Church would be even more difficult to define in the inner city; not many residents here are worried about apostolic succession, valid sacraments or Henry VIII's sex life.

What most particularly alarms Coughlan is Burtchaell's First Thingsproposal that colleges and universities should be integrated into the life of the Church and share in its apostolic mission.

Perhaps the most moving evidence that the apostolic church remembered and tried to live by the hard sayings and harder example of Jesus is the «imitation of Christ» by Stephen:

But the Romans passage is striking evidence that the loving, forgiving, nonretaliatory posture recommended by Jesus was a living, active memory within the apostolic church.

Ecumenical consultation would recognize that no denomination is an independent operator; each shapes faith and life within the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church.

The guidance of the Spirit - Paraclete, a prominent feature of life in the Johannine churches, might seem a mystic experience of union with Christ and the Father that did not survive the apostolic generation.

«At precisely those points of urgent need... Paul is most conscious that he is writing as one authorized, by the apostolic call he had received from Jesus Christ, and in the power of the Spirit, to bring life and order to the church by his words... This is not to say that the writers of the New Testament specifically envisaged a time when their books would be collected together and form something like what we now know as the cannon.

That we are baptized unto forgiveness of our sins and thereby made members of the one holy catholic and apostolic Church, to be nourished in the life of Christ given in Holy Communion and to share in the fellowship of the faithful in heaven and in earth;

The chief significance of all of them lies in their reflection of the life and thought of the Church in the period soon after the apostolic age.

To the end of his life, he considered himself to be a faithful and obedient servant of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.