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Article: The tradition of the church in health and healing.
- Article from:
- International Review of Mission
- Article date:
- April 1, 1994
- Author:
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God, or the language about God, is the subject of theology. What the people of God believe it is that is handed over (traditum) to them through the generations makes up the tradition of the church. This tradition includes their persistent striving towards fullness of life. True fullness, in biblical language, belongs to God alone; to Christ as embodiment of God (Col. 1:9); in one case -- perhaps -- to the church as the body of Christ (Eph. 1:22-23); and derivatively to all that the earth contains (Ps. 24:1). At the same time, believers may themselves move toward being "filled with all the fullness of God" (Eph. 3:9) and measured by "the stature of the fullness of Christ" ...
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