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The Constitution of the Church in South India (1947) Message of the First Assembly of the World Council of Churches (1948) The Unity We Have and Seek (1952) A Message from the Second Assembly of the World Council of Churches (1954) The Unity of the Church, St. Andrews (1960) The Church's Unity, World Council of Churches, New Delhi (1961)
The Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Oriental Orthodox Churches, also considers themselves to be the original Christian church along with the Roman Catholic Church. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] The Lutheran churches have viewed themselves as the "main trunk of the historical Christian Tree" founded by Christ and the Apostles, holding that during the ...
"One Church", illustration of Article 7 of the Augsburg Confession. This mark derives from the Pauline epistles, which state that the Church is "one". [11] In 1 Cor. 15:9, Paul the Apostle spoke of himself as having persecuted "the church of God", not just the local church in Jerusalem but the same church that he addresses at the beginning of that letter as "the church of God that is in ...
The five main evils of his contemporary Italian Church correspond, in Rosmini's view, to the five wounds of the hands, feet, and side of the Divine Redeemer. Beginning with the wound in Jesus' left hand, he likens it to the lack of sympathy between the clergy and people in the act of public worship, which he sees as a result of a lack of ...
The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod declares that the Christian Church, properly speaking, consists only of those who have faith in the gospel (i.e., the forgiveness of sins which Christ gained for all people), even if they are in church bodies that teach error, but excluding those who do not have such faith, even if they belong to a church or ...
Church Dogmatics (German: Kirchliche Dogmatik) is the four-volume theological summa and magnum opus of Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth and was published in thirteen books from 1932 to 1967. The fourth volume of the Church Dogmatics (CD) is unfinished, and only a fragment of the final part-volume was published, and the remaining lecture ...
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The ideal image of the early church is primarily determined by the description in Acts 2:37-47: The early Christian missionary preaching, which is entirely focused on the proclamation of Jesus' resurrection and his exaltation as "Kyrios", is followed here by the conversion and baptism of new disciples. This meant forgiveness of sin and thus ...