Sentences with phrase «of apostolic churches»

We have all probably heard of apostolic churches, and men or women claiming to be apostles of Christ.

In like manner, the ministry of the apostolic church was a continuation of the peacemaking ministry of Jesus.

A point on which biblical scholars are agreed is that in the preaching and teaching of the apostolic church, it was Jesus himself as Christ the Lord, the Son of God, the Savior that became the central message.

A favorite text of the apostolic church was Psalm 110:1:

In that case, it was the missionaries of the apostolic church who were told to go only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel (Mt 10:5 - 6).

Virtually nothing is known of his time in Antioch, but the letters he wrote to the churches as he journeyed to his death reveal many details of the apostolic Church, including docetist attacks on the humanity of Christ.

Not exact matches

Churches, church conventions or associations, as well as religious and apostolic organizations, including corporations and any community chest, fund, or foundation, organized and operated exclusively for religious purposes, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual.

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.

In a cultural environment where all authority is suspect and the notion of divine authority is thought to be a psychological hangover from the premodern world, the claim that divine authority is transmitted in an unbroken chain of apostolic succession through the bishops of the Church in communion with the bishop of Rome seems literally incredible.

Although there have been variations through history in the exercise of that governance, and may be further variations in order to accommodate a fuller expression of Christian unity, Catholics believe that Christ has endowed the Church with a permanent apostolic structure and an infallible teaching office that will remain until the Kingdom is fully consummated.

The Church's understanding of Sunday, from the apostolic era to the present, is comprehensively set forth in John Paul II's 1998 apostolic letter Dies Domini (the Lord's Day).

Urshan also equated the apostolic faith with Assyrian Christianity to the point of defending Nestorius and claiming that the western church went astray with its language of person.

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.

The apostolic constitution Ex Corde Ecclesiae (ECE), «From the Heart of the Church,» which Pope John Paul II issued in 1990, was meant to articulate the relationship between higher education, faith, Christian....

The apostolic constitution Ex Corde Ecclesiae (ECE), «From the Heart of the Church,» which Pope John Paul II issued in 1990, was meant to articulate the relationship between higher education, faith, Christian culture, and the Roman Catholic Church.

In «Evangelii Gaudium» (The Joy of the Gospel), officially known as an «apostolic exhortation,» Francis calls for church reforms, urges Catholics to be more bold and joyful, and castigates elements of modern capitalism.

In 189 AD, assertion of the primacy of the Church of Rome may be indicated in Irenaeus of Lyons's Against Heresies (3:3:2): «With [the Church of Rome], because of its superior origin, all the churches must agree... and it is in her that the faithful everywhere have maintained the apostolic tradition.»

Most of us would no doubt say that the gospel is, first of all, Jesus» own proclamation of the Kingdom of God, the terms of admission into it and the conditions of its coming; and then that it is, in the second place, the apostolic proclamation of this message of salvation, with the added emphasis and fresh meaning given to it by the resurrection of Jesus and the continuing work of the holy Spirit in the church.

It is Jesus» proclamation of the Kingdom of God and the apostolic proclamation of this message of salvation with the added emphasis and fresh meaning given to it by the resurrection of Jesus and the continuing work of the holy Spirit in the church.

But the Nicene Creed is the creed of the «one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.»

In this letter he said that he was grateful for having known Msgr Escrivá personally «and for having received from him encouragement and strength to be faithful to the unchangeable doctrine of Christ and to serve the Holy Roman Church with apostolic zeal».

Peter and Paul in 2010, Pope Benedict stated that PopeJohn Paul represented the Church's missionary nature not only with his apostolic journeys, but also «with the insistence of his Magisterium on the urgent need for a «new evangelisation»: «new» not in its content but in its inner thrust, open to the grace of the Holy Spirit which constitutes the force of the new law of the Gospel that always renews the Church; «new» in ways that correspond with the power of the Holy Spirit and which are suited to the times and situations; «new» because of being necessary even in countries that have already received the proclamation of the Gospel.»

Furthermore, as Pentecostals looked to the Acts of the Apostles in an effort to follow the apostolic patterns of the early church, they noted that converts were baptized in water in «Jesus» name.»

The premise here is that if Paul was not writing a theological tract for the ages — and everyone agrees he had no intention of doing that — then Romans must be understood within the circumstances of Paul's ministry, as generated, as were his other occasional letters, by a situation in his own ministry or in a church that called out for his apostolic attention.

It began to develop in apostolic times and entered the Church's consciousness only slowly in the process of doctrinal development.

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.

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.

In 1054 Rome and Constantinople parted in acrimonious mutual misunderstanding, and during 400 years of Ottoman rule the «one, holy, catholic, apostolic» Orthodox church of the East fragmented into a host of ethnic - national churches: Greek, Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Armenian, Romanian.

And when he was called home to the Father's house, he had oriented the Church toward the strategic goal John XXIII had defined on October 11, 1962: the reform of Catholicism for a third millennium of evangelical and apostolic action, for the healing of the world.

Yet even though the differences in usage between Old Testament and New Testament caused some second century Christians to conclude that two different realities were referred to, the apostolic church was adamant, that it was none other than the God of Israel who had spoken to men in Jesus.

The link between western Christianity and the gospel was broken when the churches formed the doctrines of the divine investiture of kings and apostolic succession without reference to the rights of those who were not kings or apostles.

The celibacy rule is grounded in the words and example of Jesus, Paul, and the earliest apostolic churches.

Lumen Gentium, the Constitution on the Church, reads: «This is the one Church of Christ which in the Creed is professed as one, holy, catholic, and apostolic, which our Savior, after his Resurrection, commissioned Peter to shepherd, and him and the other apostles to extend and direct with authority, which he erected for all ages as «the pillar and mainstay of the truth.»

Those who want to use this creed as the basis for their concession speech have to grasp first that the creed was not the means by which the universal and apostolic church all held hands and sang the Greek version of «Kumbaya».

In your apostolic reference, perhaps you are thinking of Timothy 9 - 15 where Paul is making assertions about how he thinks women ought to have limited participation in the church because Eve is the one who fell to temptation in Eden.

What's worst about all this, though, is that we present the appearance of fragmented, ethnically - defined sects rather than the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church we regard ourselves as being.

They do not question the divine constitution of the Church's apostolic leadership; nor are they interested in «power sharing,» meaning endless meetings to nitpick a bishop's every decision.

The main biblical evidence is (1) the stories of the creation (Gen.I: 26 - 27 with 5:1 - 2; 2:18 - 25) and the fall (3:16 - 20); (2) Jesus» respect for women, whom he consistently treated as men's equals (Luke 8:1 - 3; 10:38 - 42; 11:28 - 28; 13:10 - 17; 21:1 - 4; Mark 5:22 - 42; John 4:7 - 38; 8:3 - 11; 12:1 - 8; (3) references to women ministering in the apostolic church by prophesying, leading in prayer, teaching, practicing Samaritanship both informally and as widows and deacons, and laboring in the gospel with Apostles (Acts 2:17 - 21; 9:36 - 42; 18:24 - 26; 21:9 Rom.

While students of ecclesiology will recognize in these perspectives an unflagging congregationalism, Volf is sensitive to areas in which the free church tradition is especially vulnerable: the unity within the Christian communities; the bonds that connect one congregation to others; the accountability of congregations and clergy; and the ever - present threat to neglect or abandon the apostolic tradition.

«Openness to all other churches is a formal identifying feature of catholicity, and to this feature we must add loyalty to the apostolic tradition.»

His review touched on other points to be discussed below and ended with an invitation to join him «in thanksgiving for the encouraging results of this apostolic visit» in the prayer that it «produces abundant fruits for the Church in the United States and all the world.»

For C.B. Firth, the apostolic origin of the Indian church is a possibility.

We have seen that the apostolic Preaching according to Acts ii included an appeal to the presence and work of the Holy Spirit in the Church as evidence that the age of fulfilment had dawned, and that Jesus Christ was its Lord.

When the Acts was written there were known to be Christians in India and the story here told of their origin linked them with the Edessene Church and demonstrated its apostolic outreach.

Yet even many so - called «Protestant» churches and denominations have their fair share of problems even without apostolic succession.

He further says that the East Syrian church was under the ecclesiastical control of Antioch and the whole story of Thomas's work in the East is a fabrication by Edessa to assert its independence of Antioch and also to prove its orthodoxy in faith, Hence Brown rejected the East Syrian tradition concerning the apostolic activity of Thomas in India.

Similar to the Indian tradition, the East Syrian church holds a strong tradition of the apostolic activity of St. Thomas in India.

The more general view is that the church had its origin in the first century in the apostolic activity of St. Thomas.

Therefore, when Paul writes about the apostles in Ephesians 4:11, he is referring not only to the apostles of Jesus, but also to their authoritative, apostolic writings, which has now been complied by the church into the New Testament.

It is perhaps in some parts of the great liturgies of the Church that we are still in most direct contact with the original apostolic Preaching.