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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Catholicity"”.
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Origins of Catholicity in Richardson County Nebraska
Theoretically, earliest ecclesiastical jurisdiction over Nebraska dates back to the beginnings of the American Church when Pope Alexander VI by a bull of June 23, 1492, transmitted to the new world the continuity of the Catholic Church. He appointed as Vicar General Reverend Bernardo Boil, …
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The Beginnings of Catholicity in Kansas City, Kansas
… who attempts to record the past century of Catholicity in Kansas City, Kansas will find his sources varied and scattered. The period from 1863 to 1903 has been sketched by Monsignor Kuhls in his pamphlet, "Reminiscences of Forty Years", written in 1903. Additional facts are contained, not in …
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The Catholicity of the Church: Pneumatological Exclusivism for the Universal Presence of Christ in the People of God
Over against pneumatological inclusivism arguing for the possibility of salvation of religious others in particular and the unevangelized in general, this dissertation champions pneumatological exclusivism for the constitution and salvation of the church catholic of the new covenant. In chapter 1, …
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Newman and the Principle of Development
Christianity and Catholicity are, in the history of pre-Reformation England, as they are in their own nature, convertible terms. When England emerged from paganism into Gospel light, it was Catholicity which the young and vigorous stock embraced, and under whose guidance she throve for many …
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Network church: a Pentecostal ecclesiology shaped by mission
… is developed and linked with an approach to the catholicity of the church that has a common essence and mission movement. This is shaped by the missionary nature of pentecostalism and rooted in an understanding of a church marked by Spirit baptism. The character of networks is defined in terms of …
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The Development of the Doctrine of the Church and Religious Toleration among English Presbyterians, 1643-1705
… Instead, it was a drive towards Protestant catholicity and union with the Church of England (pursued by means of both comprehension and indulgence, often simultaneously) that paradoxically drove them towards a redefinition of both the national Church and what it meant to reform it. These …
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Carl Schmitt And Political Catholicism: Friend Or Foe?
… Indeed, the assumption of the jurist's Catholicity prior to becoming alienated from the Church amounts to a red herring, in large measure existing due to the efforts expended in shaping Schmitt's image after the Second World War both by the long-lived jurist himself as well as on his …
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Order and Ardor: The Revival Spirituality of Regular Baptist Oliver Hart, 1723–1795
… other Regular Baptists shared in the evangelical catholicity of the revival. While Hart embraced the ecumenical impulse of the awakening to promote revival, he also maintained deep Baptist convictions.
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The Pastoral Theology of the Apostolic Fathers
… structures and strongly suggests a measure of catholicity about pastoral leadership in the earliest periods of Christianity.
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Converting Catholicism: Orestes A. Brownson, Anna H. Dorsey, and Irish America, 1840-1896
… life that became the dominant ethos of American Catholicity.
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De La Salle Christian Brothers' Experiences of Catholic Identity in Higher Education in the United States
… presence of various signs and symbols of Catholicity. Additionally, the number of Catholics among the student body, the number of required theology courses, and the role of the curriculum and faculty, have been employed as measures of Catholic identity.</p> <p>This qualitative study …
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Tractarian Male Friendships, Intimacies, and Identities in Nineteenth-Century England
… England by re-awakening it to its own inherited catholicity – that is, its apostolic roots, its liturgical continuity with the ancient and medieval Christian Church, and its adherence to the traditionally and universally accepted doctrines of the church catholic. The friendships which shaped the …
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An Analysis and Comparison of the Missional Doctrine Hermeneutics of Kevin J. Vanhoozer and Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, with Emphasis on their Notions of God, Eschatology, and Mission
… of doctrine maintains consensus, agreement, and catholicity/universality. Both concreteness (locality, context) and generality (universality/constant) ought to be in dialectical tension. That would enable the hermeneutical non-linear processes for making the Christian message both intelligible …
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A Glorious and Salutiferous Œconomy...? An ecclesiological enquiry into metropolitical authority and provincial polity in the Anglican Communion.
… questions of authority, interdependence and catholicity. However, since at least the twentieth century, provincial polity has largely been eclipsed by, and confused with, the emergence of a dominant ‘national church’ polity. This confusion has become so prevalent that the word ‘province’ …
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George Fox's concept of the church
… universally available is the guarantee of the catholicity of the Church and the gathered fellowship is his visible body. (2) It is a gospel order, whereby the apostolic pattern provides an historical basis and guide for revealed authority, serves to check individualism, posits a universal basis …