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To: jo kus; Kolokotronis; annalex

The idea of the "invisible Church" applies to few and far-in-between apostate or non-Chrstian individuals who were tuched by the Holy Spirit, and is not something the Church would recommend as an alternative to the Eucharist.


712 posted on 01/09/2006 3:35:10 AM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50

The proper terms are Church Militant, Church Suffering and Church Triumphant. Do the Orthodox use those? "Invisible Church" is sometimes used to describe the mystical body of Christ. I don't understand the term very well, except when it simply means "the Church as the spiritual entity rather than the physical building".


800 posted on 01/09/2006 1:35:27 PM PST by annalex
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