Part, Chapter
1 Intro | catholic, and apostolic Church" to which this single baptism
2 Intro | fundamental character of the Church as a communion. Secondly,
3 Intro | Apostolicity as God's Gift to the Church" (1986); our "Response" (
4 Intro | unity with the life of the Church and the action of the Holy
5 I,A | himself, the faith of the Church, and the faith of the believer.~
6 I,A | us into the life of the Church. It is that gift by which
7 I,A | grounds and establishes the Church as the community of the
8 I,A | 2. The faith of the Church: In the Church of the Apostles
9 I,A | faith of the Church: In the Church of the Apostles and Fathers,
10 I,A | definitive statement of the whole Church's faith, the "We believe"
11 I,A | make his or her own. As the Church, we acknowledge the trustworthiness
12 I,A | This is the faith of the Church. We are proud to profess
13 I,A | her own the faith of the Church. The "We believe" of the
14 I,A | We believe" of the whole Church must become the individual
15 I,B | times, initiation into the Church was understood as a single
16 I,B | the contemporary Orthodox Church, baptism is administered
17 I,B | Roman rite of the Catholic Church since the later Middle Ages,
18 I,B | immersion" in the ancient church did not always mean total
19 I,B | submersion; b) the Orthodox Church itself can and does recognize
20 I,B | millennium, the Orthodox Church has in fact recognized Catholic
21 I,B | incorporation into the life of the Church, the "womb" and "mother"
22 I,B | individual believer into the Church, it cannot be repeated.
23 I,B | reconciliation with the Church is never accomplished by
24 I,B | ecclesiological consequences. The Church is itself both the milieu
25 I,B | their way of living the Church's reality as flawed or incomplete.
26 II,A | administration of the modern Catholic Church, and the absence of any
27 II,A | papacy in the modern Orthodox Church, helps to explain the contrast
28 II,A | practice of the Catholic Church over the past five hundred
29 II,A | the bounds of the visible church. This does not mean, however,
30 II,A | occurred in the Catholic Church; it appears, in fact, to
31 II,A | 99a).~ 2. In the Orthodox Church, a consistent position on
32 II,A | from a clear sense of the Church's boundaries. The Apostolic
33 II,A | probably representative of Church discipline in Syria during
34 II,A | between the authentic visible Church and every other group which
35 II,A | of groups "outside" the Church: heretics, "who differ with
36 II,A | separated from the body of the Church "for some ecclesiastical
37 II,A | into communion with the Church. Concerning the second and
38 II,A | that they are still "of the Church," and as such are to be
39 II,A | reckoned as still "of the Church," and seem to be understood
40 II,A | 1439) with the Catholic Church, prescribed that Catholics
41 II,B | visible bounds of the Orthodox Church, when they seek full communion
42 II,B | universal voice of the ancient Church. In so doing, he systematically
43 II,B | practice of the eastern church since at least the 4th century,
44 II,B | baptism "outside" the visible Church, different though it was
45 II,B | akriveia) of the ancient Church and the apparently more
46 II,B | facilitate their reentry into the Church, just as the Synod in Trullo
47 II,B | perennial "exactness" of the Church. Latins were therefore now
48 II,B | use of an authority by the Church's hierarchy, in cases of
49 II,B | exercised "outside" the Orthodox Church - rites which in and of
50 II,B | recognition in the Orthodox Church. We have already noted that
51 II,B | teaching of the Orthodox Church on the subject of baptism.~
52 III,A | minority in the Orthodox Church refuses to accord any validity
53 III,A | us," but from above. The Church does not simply require
54 III,A | rather, baptism is the Church's foundation. It establishes
55 III,A | foundation. It establishes the Church, which is also not "of us"
56 III,A | present reality of the same Church. By Gods gift we are each,
57 III,A | St. Basils words, "of the Church."~ 4. We find that this
58 III,A | teaching of the Orthodox Church; it is rather an eighteenth-century
59 III,B | Sacraments, and the Unity of the Church," came to an abrupt conclusion,
60 III,B | teaching of the Orthodox Church;~ 3. That the Patriarchate
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