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Jan 1, 1993 · Loraine Boettner, a Protestant polemicist and noted anti-Catholic, in his book Roman Catholicism, quotes Stephen L. Testa, a minister who is described as “a former Roman Catholic,” as stating, “The true Church of Christ is invisible, made up of truly converted people who are to be found in all the visible churches and who names are ...
Sep 7, 2021 · This Church, constituted and organized as a society in the present world, subsists in ( subsistit in) the Catholic Church, which is governed by the successor of Peter and by the bishops in communion with him.” (CCC 816) “For it is through Christ’s Catholic Church alone, which is the universal hope toward salvation, that the fullness of ...
Mar 2, 2024 · The Humanity of Jesus. Fully Human and Fully Divine: The Church of Christ affirms the full humanity of Jesus Christ. They believe that Jesus, while being fully divine, also took on human form, experiencing the full range of human emotions, physical limitations, and temptations. This belief is rooted in the understanding that Jesus, as the Son ...
The Churches of Christ, also commonly known as the Church of Christ, is a loose association of autonomous Christian congregations located around the world. Typically, their distinguishing beliefs are that of the necessity of baptism for salvation and the prohibition of musical instruments in worship. Many such congregations identify themselves ...
First, the church was built and purchased by Christ (Matt. 16:18; Acts 20:28). No one has the right to start a church as a divinely approved institution (cf. 1 Cor. 1:10-13). Christ, the Son of God, is the only one qualified, and he has established his church (cf. Eph. 4:4; 1:22-23). After religious division arose within the church at Corinth ...
Oct 1, 2021 · In the case of the CATHOLIC CHURCH, there is an unbroken succession of Popes, leaders of the Church since the time of Peter whom Jesus Himself authorized by giving him the KEYS of the Kingdom of ...
The papal encyclical Mystici corporis (Pope Pius XII, 1943), expresses the dogmatic ecclesiology of the Catholic Church thus: "If we would define and describe this true Church of Jesus Christ—which is the One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic, Roman Church–we shall find no expression more noble, more sublime, or more divine, than the phrase which ...
