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enchir11 CHAPTER XI THE INCARNATION AS PRIME EXAMPLE OF THE ACTION OF GOD'S GRACE 36. In this the grace of God is supremely manifest, commended in grand and visible fashion;…

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enchir27 CHAPTER XXVII LIMITS OF GOD'S PLAN FOR HUMAN SALVATION 103. Accordingly, when we hear and read in sacred Scripture that God "willeth that all men should be saved,"220 although…

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creedfilioque

creedfilioque THE FILIOQUE CLAUSE This essay is an Appendix to the essay called CREED NICENE. It deals with one particular line of the Nicene Creed. The Creed as formulated at…

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jh9401 Document: Johannine.94.01 JOHANNINE HOURS - January 1994 - from the Taize Community, France. Jeremiah 20,7-13 This text gives us a glimpse of the inner struggle undergone by one of…

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Augustine’s Confessions

AUGUSTINE: CONFESSIONS Newly translated and edited by ALBERT C. OUTLER, Ph.D., D.D. Professor of Theology Perkins School of Theology Southern Methodist University Dallas, Texas First published MCMLV Library of Congress…

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enchir12 CHAPTER XII THE ROLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT 38. Are we, then, to say that the Holy Spirit is the Father of Christ's human nature, so that as God…

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enchir28 CHAPTER XXVIII THE DESTINY OF MAN 104. Consequently, God would have willed to preserve even the first man in that state of salvation in which he was created and…

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creedsearly

creedsearly Below is a compilation of the earliest formal creeds upon which are based nearly all subsequent confessions and creeds, whether Roman Catholic, Orthodox, or protestant. For further study, I…

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jh9402 Document: Johannine.94.02 Johannine Hour - John 15 1-17 - 2/94 - Taize To speak about the People of God, the prophets sometimes used the image of the vine. God…

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enchir13 CHAPTER XIII BAPTISM AND ORIGINAL SIN 41. Since he was begotten and conceived in no pleasure of carnal appetite--and therefore bore no trace of original sin--he was, by the…

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