Search for: Church body
3501 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Preacher; Preaching.14
… the church the witnessing body of Christ on earth, and has been duly set apart as an accredited and qualified teacher of the Christian religion. His vocation …
3502 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Presbyter; Presbytery.3
… church to its governing body, either in general ( Acts 15:2, 4, 6, 22 f), or locally ( Acts 14:23; 16:4; 20:17; 1 Timothy 5:17; Titus 1:5, etc.). It is sometimes used of the body, or …
3503 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Presbyter; Presbytery.4
… Jewish church was under the care and control of a body of representative men called "the elders" ( Luke 7:3 ). Naturally the Christian church, beginning at Jerusalem …
3504 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Presbyter; Presbytery.5
… various churches of a district were already organized into an ecclesiastical body known as "the presbytery," having some basis of representation from the …
3505 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Presbyter; Presbytery.7
… Presbyterian Church: Presbytery is the court, or representative body, in the Presbyterian Church next above the Session of the local church. The Session …
3506 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Priesthood in the New Testament.10
… Christian church, whatever may be held as to its orders or tasks. In no sense has the church or any church an official priesthood. Nor is it any part of the New …
3507 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Principality.3
… heavenly bodies were regarded as ruled by spirits, some good, some evil. The same belief, appropriated by the Jews during the captivity, appears also in Greek …
3508 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Psychology.25
… Christian church, was accepted by Justin Martyr, Theodoretus, Origen and others of the church Fathers, but became obsolete by the latter part of the 4th century …
3509 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Psychology.26
… -formed body. This view of the soul’s birth found great favor in the early church. It was dominant in the East and was advocated in the West. "Jerome asserts that …
3510 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Psychology.27
… Christian church. It declared that the parents were responsible, not merely for the bodies, but also for the souls of their offspring--per traducem vel per …
3511 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Psychology.30
… early church, but was discredited on account of the Apollinarian heresy. The threefold division of human nature into soma ("body"), psuche ("soul"), pneuma ("spirit …
3512 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Reign.4
… corrupt church), "which reigneth over the kings of the earth."
3513 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Resurrection of Jesus Christ, The.16
… early church and in all subsequent ages. The force of the evidence for the empty grave and the disappearance of the body is clearly seen by the explanations …
3514 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Resurrection of Jesus Christ, The.17
… body was not constituted upon a natural basis through blood, yet that it possessed "all things appertaining to the perfection of man’s nature" (Church of England …
3515 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Revelation, 3-4.22
… the church, and gave rise to a richly varied mode of speech concerning the Scriptures, emphasizing their authority in legal language, which goes back to and …
3516 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Roman Empire and Christianity, 2.22
… Christian church was the enemy within the fold. Large numbers of heathen had entered the ecclesia bringing with them their oriental or Greek ideas, just …
3517 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Roman Empire and Christianity, 2.29
… a church like that of Rome composed of Jewish and pagan elements and undoubtedly more cosmopolitan than Corinth, a bitter sectarian spirit is easy to understand …
3518 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sacraments.11
… Roman church, sacraments are efficacious ex opere operato, i.e. in virtue of a power inherent in themselves as outward acts whereby they communicate saving …
3519 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sacrifice, in the New Testament, 2.19
… his body’s sake, which is the church" ( Colossians 1:24 ). Roman Catholic exegetes have made the apostle teach that the sufferings of the saints, along with Christ’s …
3520 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sacrifice, in the New Testament, 2.20
… their "bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God" ( Romans 12:1 ). In the old system of sacrifices the animals were offered as dead; Christians are to offer …