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Church visible is a term of
Christian theology and
ecclesiology referring to the
visible community of
Christian believers on Earth, as
opposed to the Church...
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Church of the
elect who are
known only to God, in
contrast to the "
visible church"—that is, the
institutional body on
earth which preaches the gospel...
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Church as Good as Another?. Vol. 37. The
Lutheran Witness. pp. 82–83.
There can only be one true
visible Church. ...Only that one is the true
visible...
- "one true
church" to the
exclusion of the others. For many
Protestant Christians, the
Christian Church has two components: the
church visible, institutions...
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reported in 2016.
Article XIX ('Of the
Church') of the 39
Articles defines the
church as follows: The
visible Church of
Christ is a
congregation of faithful...
- The
church is
conceived of as both
invisible and
visible. The
invisible church is the body of all believers,
known only to God. The
visible church is the...
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constitutes "the Church". For some, the
church is
defined as "all
those who will be saved", with no
emphasis on the
visible church. For others, the
theological basis...
- true
church"
refers to an
ecclesiological position ****erting that
Jesus gave his
authority in the
Great Commission solely to a
particular visible Christian...
- (Christian perfection). In the
Methodist Churches,
baptism is a
sacrament of
initiation into the
visible Church.
Wesleyan covenant theology further teaches...
- cir****cision as a sign of the
covenant and
marked a child's
admission into the
visible church. It
could not be ****umed that
baptism produces regeneration. The Westminster...
