Pacifism and Militarism in the American Restoration Movement
... was morally and ethically wrong and opposed to the teachings of Jesus Christ." They also naively announced that "we will not support future wars.'?" Conservative Disciples after World War I maintained the militarist stance that emerged during the Civil War. Writers in the Christian Standard were ope ...
... was morally and ethically wrong and opposed to the teachings of Jesus Christ." They also naively announced that "we will not support future wars.'?" Conservative Disciples after World War I maintained the militarist stance that emerged during the Civil War. Writers in the Christian Standard were ope ...
Christ of Culture
... Christ of Culture advocates find it strangely desirable to write apocryphal gospels and new lives of Jesus. They take some fragment of the complex New Testament story and interpretation, call this the essential characteristic of Jesus, elaborate upon it, and thus reconstruct their own mythical figur ...
... Christ of Culture advocates find it strangely desirable to write apocryphal gospels and new lives of Jesus. They take some fragment of the complex New Testament story and interpretation, call this the essential characteristic of Jesus, elaborate upon it, and thus reconstruct their own mythical figur ...
Standing up for Christ and his Church in our time
... of Christians in the world. This includes the Western world where some persons and governments want to wipe out Christianity from the secular order. Christian values are trampled upon by countries that were once regarded as Christian nations. Christians face persecution in many Arab countries and i ...
... of Christians in the world. This includes the Western world where some persons and governments want to wipe out Christianity from the secular order. Christian values are trampled upon by countries that were once regarded as Christian nations. Christians face persecution in many Arab countries and i ...
Transubstantiation
Transubstantiation (in Latin, transsubstantiatio, in Greek μετουσίωσις metousiosis) is, according to the teaching of the Catholic Church, the change by which the bread and the wine used in the sacrament of the Eucharist become, not merely as a sign or a figure, but also in actual reality the body and blood of Christ. The Catholic Church teaches that the substance, or reality, of the bread is changed into that of the body of Christ and the substance of the wine into that of his blood, while all that is accessible to the senses (the outward appearances - species in Latin) remains unchanged. What remains unaltered is also referred to as the ""accidents"" of the bread and wine, but the term ""accidents"" is not used in the official definition of the doctrine by the Council of Trent. The manner in which the change occurs, the Catholic Church teaches, is a mystery: ""The signs of bread and wine become, in a way surpassing understanding, the Body and Blood of Christ.""The Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Church, and Church of the East have sometimes used the term ""transubstantiation"" (metousiosis); however, terms such as ""divine mystery"", ""trans-elementation"" (μεταστοιχείωσις metastoicheiosis), ""re-ordination"" (μεταρρύθμισις metarrhythmisis), or simply ""change"" (μεταβολή) are more common among them, and they consider the Eucharist with its change from bread and wine to the body and blood of Christ a ""Mystery"". Eastern Catholic Churches in communion with the Holy See likewise prefer such terms and see them alongside the teaching expressed by the term ""transubstantiation"", which likewise denotes an actual change, a ""becoming"", as opposed to the mere addition of a new symbolic significance expressed in ""to be for us the body and blood of Christ"".