Sentences with phrase «visible as any unity»

A half - century later Catholic dissent and diversity are as visible as any unity.

Not exact matches

It is certainly true, as the Declaration on the Way says, that the goal of complete visible Lutheran - Catholic unity has not yet been met.

The fractures within Protestantism, coupled with other developments such as the move to allow women bishops in the Church of England, however, suggest that the movement toward visible unity is in stasis.

Note the implication in the first clause there: There are «those who no longer see the full, visible unity of the Church as an achievable goal.»

«In the face of those who no longer see the full, visible unity of the Church as an achievable goal,» he said to a delegation of Finnish Lutherans visiting Rome this past Friday, «we are invited not to give up our ecumenical efforts, faithful to that which the Lord Jesus asked of the Father, «that they may be one.

The entry point into the debate has varied, but there has always been an awareness in the Church that the search for visible unity and the communion the churches seek, is connected inextricably with the authority with which the Church interprets and lives up to its traditions, but also the way in which we act as Christians in the world.

The interrelationship of all forms of knowledge must become just as visible as the functional unity of life and of civilization.

And because this unity must be as fully embodied in the world as was God in Jesus Christ, it must be a visible unity.

In its statement, the conference said, «the nature of the unity towards which we are striving is that of a visible fellowship in which all members, acknowledging Jesus Christ as living Lord and Savior, shall recognize each other as belonging fully to His Body, to the end that the world may believe».

In those bodies, once describing themselves as the ecumenical churches, it seems that nobody of influence is pressing for or is even seriously thinking about the visible unity in full communion under discussion here.

If ecumenism is understood as the quest for full visible unity, and if full visible unity is understood as what the Catholic Church means by «full communion,» then it is perhaps not quite accurate to speak of «the role» of the Catholic Church.

New Delhi said: «[This unity] is being made visible as all in each place who are baptized into Jesus Christ and confess him as Lord and Savior are brought by the Holy Spirit into one fully committed fellowship, holding the one apostolic faith, preaching the one gospel, breaking the one bread, joining in common prayer, and having a corporate life reaching out in witness and service to all and who at the same time are united with the whole Christian fellowship in all places and all ages, in such wise that ministry and members are accepted by all, and that all can act and speak together as occasion requires for the tasks to which God calls His people.»

In non-living things visible to the naked eye there is no clear distinction between whole and part, and no dynamic unity, as though something like a sequence of experiences were influencing the parts.

An inseparable part of the ecumenical task is to move the churches toward visible unity in, as the New Delhi statement put it (I abbreviate), «one baptism, one gospel, breaking the one bread, joining in common prayer, a corporate life reaching out in witness and service to all, a ministry and membership accepted by all, and the ability to act and speak together as occasion requires.»

He moved from being primarily apologetical and antithetical — but never merely negative and antagonistic — to recognizing Catholics as fellow believers, in the common cause of the Gospel, especially striving to realize the visible unity of the Church.

He condemned the movement for denying the visible unity of the Church of Christ, treating the «visible Church as nothing else than a Federation» with different and even incompatible doctrines.

It is certainly true that Vatican II's teaching on the «collegial union» of the bishops balances the earlier assertions of Vatican I. Moreover Lumen Gentium also teaches that «the individual bishops... are the visible principle and foundation of unity in their particular churches» and as such individual bishops enjoy their own proper authority in their diocese.

«And President Buhari too given his military training to defend the unity of Nigeria may also be cautious and reticent except he is able to get visible cooperation and firm impetus from the political class as they are currently doing as well as practicable blue print and roadmap for a sustainable restructuring»

Symbolically, a currency union is a very visible form of national unity and reinforces other provisions of the original U.S. Constitution that make the United States as customs and tariff union and an immigration union.