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Traditional Roman Catholic theology centres the union with Christ in a substantial sense on the unity of the institutional church, past and present. "The communion of saints is the spiritual solidarity which binds together the faithful on earth, the souls in purgatory, and the saints in heaven in the organic unity of the same mystical body under Christ its head."
Therefore, Christ, as the elect of God, is the foundation of our election. [12] Through union with Christ believers become members of the elect (Ephesians 1:4, 6-7, 9-10, 12-13). [13] No one is among the elect unless they are in a living faith union with Christ. [14]
Hypostatic union (from the Greek: ὑπόστασις hypóstasis, 'person, subsistence') is a technical term in Christian theology employed in mainstream Christology to describe the union of Christ's humanity and divinity in one hypostasis, or individual personhood. [1]
According to Benedict, the Eucharist, which is union with Christ, has a profound impact on our social relations. Because "union with Christ is also union with all those to whom he gives himself. I cannot possess Christ just for myself; I can belong to him only in union with all those who have become, or who will become, his own."
Theosis (Ancient Greek: θέωσις), or deification (deification may also refer to apotheosis, lit. "making divine"), is a transformative process whose aim is likeness to or union with God, as taught by the Eastern Catholic Churches and the Eastern Orthodox Church; the same concept is also found in the Latin Church of the Catholic Church, where it is termed "divinization".
This image from the frontispiece of a book on the subject depicts a Dutch Reformed service of the Lord's Supper. [1]In Reformed theology, the Lord's Supper or Eucharist is a sacrament that spiritually nourishes Christians and strengthens their union with Christ.
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Baptism is the seal of our adoption, through which we are 'grafted into the body of Christ' to be cleansed by His blood and renewed by the Holy Spirit. The Lord's Supper is a testimony of our union with Christ, who truly nourishes us with his 'body' and 'blood' through the 'secret and incomprehensible powe'r of the Holy Spirit.