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The mediaeval scala naturae as a staircase, implying the possibility of progress: [1] Ramon Llull's Ladder of Ascent and Descent of the Mind, 1305. Within many denominations of Christianity, Christian perfection is the theological concept of the process or the event of achieving spiritual maturity or perfection.
The Higher Life movement was precipitated by the Wesleyan-Holiness movement, which had been gradually springing up, but made a definite appearance in the mid-1830s.It was at this time that Methodists in the northeastern United States began to preach Wesleyan doctrine of Christian perfection or entire sanctification and non-Methodists at Oberlin College in Ohio began to accept and promote their ...
The Oneida community strongly believed in a system of free love – a term which Noyes is credited with coining – which was known as complex marriage, [10] where any member was free to have sex with any other who consented. [11] [page needed] Possessiveness and exclusive relationships were frowned upon. [12]
John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist movement, taught that there were two distinct phases in the Christian experience. [3] In the first work of grace, the new birth, the believer receives forgiveness and becomes a Christian. [4] During the second work of grace, entire sanctification, the believer is purified and made holy. [4]
Chapter V of the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen gentium discusses the Universal Call to Holiness:...all the faithful of Christ of whatever rank or status, are called to the fullness of the Christian life and to the perfection of charity; ...They must follow in His footsteps and conform themselves to His image seeking the will of the Father in all things.
Perfectionism may refer to: Perfectionism (psychology), a personality trait; Perfectionism (philosophy), a persistence of will; Christian perfection, a doctrine taught in Methodism and Quakerism; Perfectionist movement; see Oneida Community, a Christian sect; Perfectionist, by Natalia Kills "Perfectionism", song by Jay Chou from the 2000 album Jay
George Fox, the founder of Quakerism, taught Christian perfection, also known in the Friends tradition as "Perfectionism", in which the Christian believer could be made free from sin. [ 51 ] [ 3 ] In his Some Principles of the Elect People of God Who in Scorn are called Quakers, for all the People throughout all Christendome to Read over, and ...
The perfection of Christ is a principle in Christology which asserts that Christ's human attributes exemplified perfection in every possible sense. [citation needed] Another perspective [citation needed] characterizes Christ's perfection as purely spiritual and moral, while his humanistic traits are subject to flaw, potential, and improvement as part of the current human condition.