 | Martin H. Manser - 2001 - 524 pages
...with the Church but defraud themselves of life. For where the Church is there is the Spirit of God, and where the Spirit of God is, there is the Church and all grace. St. Irenaeus God never intended his Church to be a refrigerator in which to preserve perishable piety.... | |
 | Gregory Afonsky - 2001 - 130 pages
...infallible Church, for, as St Irenaeus has said, "Where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God, and where the Spirit of God is, there is the Church and every grace; and the Spirit is Truth."' It is this Spirit of Christ who animates and constitutes the... | |
 | Henry Chadwick - 2001 - 746 pages
...known world, and what is universal is apostolic. So the universal Church is the repository of truth. Where the Church is, there is the Spirit, and where the Spirit is there is the Church. Therefore one must not separate from the Church. Would-be reformers want to... | |
 | Geffrey B. Kelly, F. Burton Nelson - 2003 - 324 pages
...assertion: "Ubi enim ecclesia ibi et spititus; et ubi spiritus dei illic ecclesia et omnis gratia" [For where the church is, there is the Spirit; and...where the Spirit of God is, there is the church and every kind of gracej. 12. SC(DBWE i): 154. 13. DBW n: 275 (GS 5: 252). 14. SC (DBWE i): 160. 15. SC... | |
 | Jacob Neusner, Bruce David Chilton, William Albert Graham - 2002 - 366 pages
...constituents of "the great and glorious body of Christ." They made the church a divine institution: "Where the Spirit of God is, there is the church and all grace, and the Spirit is truth" (see Irenaeus, Against Heresies 4.33.7) Although Irenaeus's conception was... | |
 | Donald G. Bloesch - 2002 - 360 pages
...endorse a pneumatocentric theology when he declared, "Where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God; and where the Spirit of God is, there is the Church, and every kind of grace."43 At the same time, he also contended that the Word and the Spirit are the two... | |
 | Christopher A. Hall - 2002 - 324 pages
...are bereft of the Spirit and the life of Christ. For where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God; and where the Spirit of God is, there is the Church, and every kind of grace; but the Spirit is truth. Those, therefore, who do not partake of Him, are neither... | |
 | Wallace M. Alston - 2002 - 164 pages
...grace. Irenaeus, a second-century theologian, said, "Where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God; and where the Spirit of God is, there is the Church, and every kind of grace," but apparently he attached the Spirit's presence to the existence of the sacrament... | |
 | John Lacy - 2003 - 596 pages
...general remaining operation of the Spirit; whereof they are not partakers who do not run unto the church; for where the church is, there is the Spirit; and...where the Spirit of God is, there is the church and every grace prophetical.' From which definition of the church the bishops of Asia had no right to lay... | |
 | Alexei V. Nesteruk - 302 pages
...because we experience that presence in the Spirit. "For where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God; and where the Spirit of God is, there is the Church, and every kind of grace; but the Spirit is truth."16 This indicates that the only theology that is true... | |
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For where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God; and where the Spirit of God is, there is the Church, and every kind of grace; but the Spirit is truth. 
