Sentences with phrase «progress toward holiness»

For John Paul II and Catholics traditionally, the Christian life is one of progress toward holiness, the goal of which is to be like God by becoming «full of grace» (1 John 3:2).

While Catholicism presents a «linear» framework in which the Christian journeys in progress toward holiness, Lutheranism posits a «dialectic» one which precludes any self - perfecting tendencies.