The Church(es) of God
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
the Church · the Churches · the true mother of the living
in the texts
Letters
The institution and community whose unity and suffering pervade the letters.
For many are now the breakings of the Church, and great is our affliction over them;
So then it would have befitted you to deliberate firmly and gently about matters that concern all the Churches throughout the world.
And since you did this, being moved well and fittingly, we praised you, and gave thanks to the Lord that there is a remnant of the ancient good order preserved in you, and that the Church has not lost its own strength in our persecution.
De Anima
The Christian community, understood typologically as born from the wound in Christ's side, echoing Eve's origin from Adam.
For if Adam gave a figure of Christ, the sleep of Adam was the death of Christ, who was to sleep into death, so that out of the wound likewise of His side might be figured the true mother of the living, the Church.