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SON, kindred. An immediate male descendant. In its technical meaning in devises, this is a word of purchase, but the testator may make it a word of descent. Sometimes it is extended to more remote descendants.
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Niebuhr noted that the sonship of Jesus Christ "involves the double movement--with men toward God, with God toward men; from the world to the Other, from the Other to the world: from work to Grace, from Grace to work; from time to the Eternal and from the Eternal to the temporal.
Reformed theology, revelation, and particularity: John Calvin and H. ... by Ottati, Douglas F. / Cross Currents
Christ offers a way of adoptive sonship, holiness in the Spirit, and a promise of blessedness.
Foundations for a psychotherapy of virtue: an integrated Catholic ... by Moncher, Frank J.; Titus, Craig Steven / Journal of Psychology and Christianity
The bishops want to replace the sentence "Thus the covenant that God made with the Jewish people through Moses remains eternally valid for them" with "To the Jewish people, whom God first chose to hear his word, 'belong the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship and the promises; to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ'" (Rom 9:4-5; see Catechism of the Catholic Church, No.
Trouble ahead? The future of Jewish-Catholic relations by Donahue, John R. / Commonweal
 
 
 
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