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The nine gifts of the Holy Ghost for the edification, exhortation and comfort of the Church, which is the body of Christ. The sacraments of baptism by immersion, and the Lord's Supper. The Divine inspiration and authority of the Holy Scriptures. Church government by apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers, elders and deacons.
The Institution of the Eucharist by Nicolas Poussin, 1640. In Christian theology, the term Body of Christ (Latin: Corpus Christi) has two main but separate meanings: it may refer to Jesus Christ's words over the bread at the celebration of the Jewish feast of Passover that "This is my body" in Luke 22:19–20 (see Last Supper), or it may refer to all individuals who are "in Christ" (1 ...
The Body of Christ Church (Swedish: Kristi Lekamens kyrka is a Roman Catholic church in Visby on the Swedish island of Gotland. Inaugurated by Bishop Hubertus Brandenburg in 1982, it is the first Catholic church to be built on Gotland since the Middle Ages. The relatively small church has space for around 80 worshippers at a time. [1]
Lumen gentium, after mentioning "Christ, present to us in His Body, which is the Church" (14), goes on to speak of those who are fully incorporated (14), conjoined (15), and related (16) to the Church. This more expansive idea of the Church is developed in the second chapter of Lumen gentium on the "People of God". [7]
Faith in the Church as the body of Christ. The doctrine of the believers' Church should not be confused with that of the free church, which is a concept designating the separate churches of states. [21] [22] Some Christian denominations that can be identified in the free church movement do not adhere to the doctrine of the believers' Church ...
"Church of Christ" is the most common name used by this group. In keeping with their focus of not being a denomination, using Ephesians 1:22–23 as reference to the church being the body of Christ and a body cannot be divided, congregations have identified themselves primarily as community churches and secondarily as Churches of Christ.
Roman Catholic theology, reacting against the protestant concept of an invisible Church, emphasized the visible aspect of the Church founded by Christ, but in the twentieth century placed more stress on the interior life of the Church as a supernatural organism, identifying the Church, as in the encyclical Mystici corporis Christi of Pope Pius XII, with the Mystical Body of Christ. [14]
It is the redemptive fellowship in which the Word of God is preached by men divinely called, and the sacraments are duly administered according to Christ's own appointment. Under the discipline of the Holy Spirit the Church exists for the maintenance of worship, the edification of believers and the redemption of the world. Article VI - The ...