Sentences with phrase «whole church body»

Let's use the Catholic church to disband the whole church body.

Not exact matches

Seventh and finally, the song of redemptive hope, of the resurrection of the body; of our bodies that encompass the stuff of the creation of which we are part; of our bodies that participate in the body of Christ that is the Church, and therefore anticipate, already now, that perfect communion with God for which the whole creation waits with eager longing.

Theologies of play and of the body could be understood as the church's teaching on these topics, although in fact they tend to call for some shift in Christian thinking as a whole based on attention to what can be learned as one takes play or the body seriously.

The virgin's recitation of the public prayer of the Church, even when prayed privately, unites her to the whole Body of Christ with whom she joins in the prayer of Christ to the Father in the Holy Spirit.

The liturgy is being re-established little by little, in the minds of God's people as the corporate worship not just of the local but of the whole Body of Christ, the universal Church, reaching across time and space and into heaven itself:

Slightly improved doctrines about the oppressed, about women, about the body, about community, or about the whole of creation will not change the church much.

Even in some regions where there does not yet exist an official ecumenical body, the churches work together effectively in this field, and this naturally increases ecumenical cooperation as a whole.

For the whole Church, which consists of all the faithful, since all the faithful are members of Christ, hath that Head set in Heaven, and it governeth His body.

What the Church knows as the descent of Christ into Hell is not, according to Blake's vision, a descent apart from the body, but rather a descent into the very depths of bodily repression, a descent that is only consummated in the identification of Jesus» «Satanic Body of Holiness» with the totality of the cosmos, and its consequent presence as the redemptive fire of passion throughout the whole body of humanbody, but rather a descent into the very depths of bodily repression, a descent that is only consummated in the identification of Jesus» «Satanic Body of Holiness» with the totality of the cosmos, and its consequent presence as the redemptive fire of passion throughout the whole body of humanBody of Holiness» with the totality of the cosmos, and its consequent presence as the redemptive fire of passion throughout the whole body of humanbody of humanity.

But among American church bodies at least, the relational view is employed in a whole variety of statements.

Being the whole body of Christ, the church includes more than Roman Catholics.

Bousma noted that the teaching authority of the church was claimed by the theological faculty, leading to a division between them and the «clergy who minister to the whole body of the faithful.»

But in the mystical body of the Church, the surplus humanity that Christ finds in each of the members of this his body is called upon, insofar as each is a part of the whole, to participate in the work of this body, which is the redemption continued throughout time.

There is hardly any other so well organized and so widespread a body as the Catholic Church in the whole world.

Secondly, they are not made for the Church so far as it is an exclusive body with a limited membership; but for the Church as «catholic» or universal, ideally identified with the whole human race as «redeemed» through Christ.

So I will highlight the importance of Jason Joseph's Catholic response to Pat Deneen: The freedom properly claimed is the freedom the church — an organized body of thought and action — to tell the whole truth....

The Eastern Orthodox are prepared to include in the body of the Church in this extended sense the whole cosmos, even the natural order, quite as much as human existence on this planet.

With this in mind, preachers of the «good news» needs always to remember that in their proclamation of that which in Christ God has «determined, dared, and done» (in Christopher Smart's compelling words) they are speaking not just for the contemporary Church but for the whole body of faithful people.

At Jerusalem itself the continued presence of the majority of the apostles simplified the question of authority, because they seem to have acted on all important questions as a body which sought and obtained the consent of the Church as a whole (Acts 6: 12 - 16, 15:22) under the joint guidance of the Spirit (Acts 15:28, cf. 6:3).

Indeed the Church's whole mission and life is one of leading humanity to communion with the Trinity, a communion that indeed reaches into our subjectivity, but which at the same time heals us and enlightens us and leads us to receive that which we could never attain by ourselves - a share in God's own life, in the immense glory of eternal life in the resurrected body of Jesus Christ.

The idea is foreign to the whole Catholic tradition, which is preserved in the Orthodox Church also: «There is only one Christ and so there can only be one Body of Christ...

We refer to the much - talked - of collegiality in the Church, particularly that of the whole body of bishops with the pope.

The concept of the church as the body of Christ in the whole world is another growing development for me.

A vital and practical program of evangelism and missions that encourages believers to get involved in spreading the Gospel of Jesus, locally and internationally, is important to not only that church, but the Body of Christ as a whole.

This community is not only the particular church group to which we belong, but the whole living body of those who in all times have sought God and been found by Him.

«Since it has been entrusted to the Church to reveal the mystery of God, Who is the ultimate goal of man, she opens up to man at the same time the meaning of his own existence, that is, the innermost truth about himself... For by His incarnation the Father's Word assumed, and sanctified through His cross and resurrection, the whole of man, body and soul, and through that totality the whole of nature created by God for man's use» (41).

Because Protestantism as a whole defines the body of Christ as an invisible entity, this can create confusion over the relationship between the visible church and the invisible church.

By emphasizing a doctrine of Christ without the whole perspective of the Trinity, theology developed in a very one - sided way and has come to be pre-occupied with the church as the body of Christ, with its structure, hierarchy, and its rules and regulations.

A further element in this new conception of reception, and an inheritance from the classical model of reception, is that it understands the agents of this comprehensive process to include all of the members of the Church, while specifying g the particular roles of Church leaders, of the whole body of the faithful, and of theologians.

Yet if salvation is genuinely social, then there can be no place for a distinction that invites us to assume, for example, that we have ownership over our bodies and possessions in a way that is not under the discipline of the whole church.

And Christ's mystical Body, which is the Church — His social body, if I might put it so — is the way in which the work of health - giving, whole - making, or Salvation, is carried on through the aBody, which is the Church — His social body, if I might put it so — is the way in which the work of health - giving, whole - making, or Salvation, is carried on through the abody, if I might put it so — is the way in which the work of health - giving, whole - making, or Salvation, is carried on through the ages.

We shall see presently the place of our Lord Jesus Christ in this whole context, the utter necessity of the Church as the mystical Body of Christ, and the inescapable reality of «the resurrection of the body, and the life of the world to come.&raBody of Christ, and the inescapable reality of «the resurrection of the body, and the life of the world to come.&rabody, and the life of the world to come.»

Every fast and feast in the Church for the past 2,000 odd years has been given to the whole body to remind us that Christ's actions effect us, even now.

But at the same time, he brings to mind and gradually fulfils the whole ministerial structure of the Church in an ordered way «for building up the body of Christ until we all attain to the unity of the faith» (Eph.

He would provide a profile of the early Church which was «a religious communion claiming a divine commission, and holding all other religious bodies around it heretical or infidel, a sort of secret society binding its members together by influence and engagement, spread over the whole world, a natural enemy to governments, intolerant and capable of dividing families and breaking laws.

In the early church, a person would be baptized, perhaps in a river, by immersion, and Baptists continue to dip the whole body under water.

«As a sacrament of the Church, marriage... [is] a word of the Spirit which exhorts man and woman to model their whole life together by drawing power from the mystery of the «redemption of the body».

Therefore the whole body of Christ, the Church, lives in partial dependence upon the merit achieved in the special vocation of the «religious» orders.

The Church is the whole body of the present Incarnate Word.

Emphasizing the collegiality of the Petrine office, the Pope says: «When the Catholic Church affirms s that the office of the bishop of Rome corresponds to the will of Christ, she does not separate this office from the mission entrusted to the whole body of bishops, who are also «vicars and ambassadors of Christ.»

Taken literally, Paul VI's words seem to rule out all possibility of finding any considerable body of truth outside the church and place in jeopardy the whole subject of the dialogue, seen as honest exchange.

The task of the church as «body» is to implement this cosmic principle with the concrete preaching of the gospel to the whole world and especially to the Gentiles (Col. 1:27; Eph.

In the church as the body of Christ the cross came to mean the extending of self - denial to incorporation into a community where the personal religious quest of each member was subordinated to the upbuilding in love of the whole.

Anyway, we must acknowledge that christianity has built up on bodies of innocent people (as almost any other human institution), wether we talk about individual churches, denominations, the whole christendom, etc..

With time this arrangement becomes an intolerable burden, for no one member of the body has the gifts and graces necessary to carry out the whole ministry of nurture and mission for the church.

Even now, in the church I go to, during Praise and Worship I could feel that I was maybe getting ready to speak in tongues, and I'd have to shut it off because I don't know what that church would do if I started screaming out in tongues in the back... It feels like a lot of energy coming through the top of your head — I'm going to sound like such a lunatic — and then your whole body is filled with this electric current.

So I will highlight the importance of Jason Joseph's Catholic response to Pat Deneen: The freedom properly claimed is the freedom the church — an organized body of thought and action — to tell the whole truth about the human person.

We believe that our drama is having an impact on the larger body of the whole Christian community, especially churches whose members include parents, relatives and friends of PWAs.

It is the very skeleton of our existence — not a part but our whole life, not only our life alone but our life in community, not only our life in the church but our life in the world, not our soul but our body.

And since there is always but one God, and there is one mediator between God and men [human beings], Jesus the Messiah, and one Shepherd of the whole flock, one Head of this body, and, to conclude, one Spirit, one salvation, one faith, one Testament or covenant, it necessarily follows that there is only one Church....