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In contemporary Christian parlance, we would call these people “missionaries” or, if they don’t travel too far from home, “church planters.”77 This too is clearly an authoritative role of Christian leadership that includes teaching doctrine to adult men and women, but it was not designed to be an office of local, ongoing church administration and
... See moreJames R. Beck, Craig L. Blomberg (Editor), Craig S. Keener (Contributor), Linda L. Belleville (Contr... • Two Views on Women in Ministry
Jean-Yves Leloup describe la aparición de estos textos apócrifos (lo que quiere decir ocultos y secretos) y reprimidos, como son el Evangelio de María Magdalena y los evangelios de Tomás y Felipe, como un esfuerzo de integración, un intento por hacer consciente lo inconsciente. Hemos sido muy conscientes de la historia masculina, lineal y más
... See moreMeggan Watterson • María Magdalena Revelada: La primera apóstol, su evenagelio feminista y el cristianismo que aun no hemos experimentado (Spanish Edition)

it doesn’t matter how big or successful our church is, if we do not leave behind godly sons and daughters we are only one generation away from rebellion or extinction.
Andrew Murray • Seeing The Church: When your purpose collides with God's passion

All human beings are called to the new people of God. Therefore this people, while remaining one and unique, is to be spread throughout the whole world and through every age to fulfil the design of the will of God, who in the beginning made one human nature and decreed that his children who had been scattered should at last be gathered together
... See moreNorman Tanner • Vatican II: The Essential Texts
While Christ “holy, blameless, unstained” (Heb 7, 26) knew no sin (see 2 Cor 5, 21), and came only to expiate the sins of the people (see Heb 2, 17), the church, containing sinners in its own bosom, is at one and the same time holy and always in need of purification and it pursues unceasingly penance and renewal.
Norman Tanner • Vatican II: The Essential Texts
