Sentences with phrase «through apostolic»

This is a consistency guaranteed by the Lord himself: both in the unity of his Person and in the unity of his gift of inerrancy to the Church through the apostolic succession.

Everything that we «know» about Jesus comes to us through the apostolic witness, as this has been handed down in the living tradition of the Christian community of faith, worship, and life.

Christianity came to India in the first century through the apostolic activity of St. Thomas both in North and South India.

Not exact matches

A group of more than sixty Catholic theologians and clergy, including some well - known traditionalist writers and scholars, have signed a document, addressed to Pope Francis and recently released to the public, alleging that the pope has promoted heresy through his statements regarding the post-synodal apostolic exhortation Amoris laetitia.

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.

In a speech earlier this year, Archbishop Francis Chullikatt, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations and former apostolic nuncio to Iraq and Jordan, challenged Americans to protect religious freedom in their country: «While nobody would confuse the marginalization of religion with the actual killing of Christians in other parts of the world, it is through this marginalizing that violent persecution is born.»

It is in Saint Joseph that we find a model of manhood that embodies a heroic paternalism applicable both to those who live out their fatherhood generatively and also to those who pursue their paternity through the priesthood or other forms of apostolic celibacy.

But my time at St. Andrew has taught me that small congregations can more easily go through processes of spiritual transformation than larger ones and can be made «free for real missionary adventure and apostolic self - confidence,» in Rahner's words.

Since the Catholic Church believes in apostolic succession, they argue that the authority to forgive sins was passed down from the apostles through the Pope to the priests.

To pass from the latest apostolic writings to the earliest compositions of uninspired Christian pens is to fall through such a giddy height that it is no wonder if we rise dazed and almost unable to determine our whereabouts.

However, we must ask of Brunner, what person is encountered through the mediation of the apostolic witness.

A comparative study of the other epistles, including the «apostolic» ones, shows that developments of various kinds continued through the first century, and that, within a wide unity, there was much variety of expression and interpretation.

But if that event truly took place, then God has revealed himself to the world definitively through Christ and the apostolic witnesses, coming to us in the New Testament writings.

it maintains the original apostolic beliefs, while through the centuries the catholic church made some modifications.

That continuity is rooted in apostolic succession, by which the whole mystery of Christ is handed on through the bishops.

The apostolic church likewise exercised its ministry through suffering.

It is, however, in the Fourth Gospel that we return to the main line of development which runs through Mark from the original apostolic Preaching; though here the eschatological framework has been transformed into something widely different.

Catholics (at least orthodox Catholics) understand themselves to be members of the most fully and rightly ordered expression of Christ's one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church through time.

Raised a Protestant, despite all my thrashing and twisting I eventually couldn't help but believe that the apostolic succession, through Peter as the designated leader and primus inter pares, is in some logical or theological sense prior to everything else — including even Scripture, whose formation was guided and completed by the apostles and their successors, themselves inspired by the Holy Spirit.

Those of us who came to love God through these separated communions are correct to declare our faith in the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church.»

This consummation brings into history in ful lment the last, final dimension of infallibility in doctrine, moral truth and apostolic magisterium: it becomes the final and chief mark of the Church, because only through this mark of literal and genuine Divinity, is it possible to maintain the characteristics of unity, holiness, catholicity and apostolic authenticity.

We sow the seeds of a common apostolic bond of holiness, truth, love and living service which is through Christ, with Christ and in Christ.

I would emphasize, if anything even more strongly than Niebuhr, the empirical church, the communion of the saints that has come down in unbroken continuity from apostolic times, so that we see the resurrection through the eyes of the disciples, because they and all the intervening generations are still present to us.

It may seem obvious enough to conclude that saving faith, which is the work of Christ, is given by the image of him that the New Testament evokes through its account of his words and deeds and of the apostolic word about him.

The only groups within Christian history that are not evangelical at bottom are those who deny apostolic Christianity or those who so thoroughly reinterpret it through their conceptual grid (i.e., Gnostics, anti-supernatural liberals) that it ceases to retain integrity with apostolic intent.

Thus a return to the tradition of the early church cuts through later accretions and developments, exposing the ways in which they have departed from apostolic intent while at the same time reviving the current practice of worship through the rediscovery of the apostolic intent preserved by the Fathers.

My contention is that theological thinking about apostolic uninterpreted truth is filtered through a system of thought (Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, Scottish Realism, existentialism, Whiteheadian physics, etc.) and that the system of thought itself is gradually treated as authoritative.

Through 30 years of teaching in seminaries I have become convinced that the church has largely failed in its mission of educating its people in the apostolic, biblical faith.

Even the apostolic council in Jerusalem introduced nothing new in matters of faith but rather held that which St Peter concludes in Acts 6... the article that one is saved without the laws, solely through the grace of Christ.»

Christianity is that movement within human history in which the efficacy of Israel's witness to God's creative and redemptive work has been mediated through Jesus and the apostolic witness to God's activity in him.

Luiz Ruscillo FAITH Magazine January - February 2007 Christ the Fulfilment of Wisdom «The Church, as early as apostolic times, and then constantly inher Tradition, has illuminated the unity of the divine plan in the twoTestaments through typology, which discerns in God's works of the OldCovenant prefigurations of what he accomplished in the fullness of timein the person of his incarnate son.»

One of the important truths which this very useful book underlines is the simple fact that as neither the Church nor the doctrine of the Church came to an abrupt end with the death of the last apostle and the conclusion of the New Testament, Greek itself well outlived the apostolic period and continued to enrich the Church through history, philosophy, theology, hymns and sermons for a long time after 100AD.

I'm a Sister of Notre Dame, of Chardon, Ohio.The Sisters of Notre Dame are apostolic women religious whose mission is to proclaim God's goodness and provident care through lives of service.