The Synod of Bishops was formed during the Second Vatican Council, introduced by the decree Christus Dominus.

This included decrees on the pastoral office of bishops ( Christus Dominus ), the life of persons in religious orders ( expanded and modified from earlier sessions, finally titled Perfectæ Caritatis ), education for the priesthood ( Optatam Totius ), Christian education ( Gravissimum Educationis ), and the role of the laity ( Apostolicam Actuositatem ).

Episcopal conferences have long existed as informal entities, but were first established as formal bodies by the Second Vatican Council ( Christus Dominus, 38 ), and implemented by Pope Paul VI's 1966 motu proprio Ecclesiae sanctae.

The concept of the pastoral council was first articulated in the 1965 Vatican II Decree on Bishops ( Christus Dominus, par.

Episcopal conferences were first established as formal bodies by the Second Vatican Council ( Christus Dominus, 38 ), and implemented by Pope Paul VI's 1966 motu proprio Ecclesiae sanctae.

) Such symbols may include Christian symbols such as a simple cross, a cross on a heart pierced by an arrow ( representing Santa Maria Addolorata, i. e. Our Lady of Sorrows ), a circle divided into four quarters with the letters S, C, S, D in them ( for Sanctus Christus and Sanctus Dominus according to one source, but more likely the initials of Santo Cosma and Santo Damiano, the two saints the local basilica is dedicated to ) and quite a few others.

* Christus Dominus, the Second Vatican Council's " Decree on the Pastoral Office of Bishops ".

Episcopal conferences have long existed as informal entities, but were first established as formal bodies by the Second Vatican Council ( Christus Dominus, 38 ), and implemented by Pope Paul VI's 1966 motu proprio Ecclesiae sanctae.

The idea of the " pastoral " council had its genesis in the 1965 Vatican II Decree on Bishops ( Christus Dominus, par.

* That Christ is One ( Quod unus sit Christus )

For most Christians, it is the stated or " confessed " belief in Jesus as Savior that makes God's grace available to an individual, and salvation can come no other way ( Solus Christus in Protestantism, Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus in Catholicism, see Dual covenant theology for a dissenting view ).

But God, on the basis of the life, death, and resurrection of his Son, Jesus Christ alone ( solus Christus ), grants sinners judicial pardon, or justification, which is received solely through faith.

The name of " Stone " or lapis itself is informed by early Christian allegory, such as Priscillian ( 4th century ), who stated Unicornis est Deus, nobis petra Christus, nobis lapis angularis Jesus, nobis hominum homo Christus.

Although this is sometimes taken as a reference to the three kings — Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar — it may originally have represented the words " Christus mansionem benedicat " ( Christ bless this house ).

Chronologically, the second explanation, first clearly enunciated by Irenaeus, is the " ransom " or " Christus Victor " theory.

Thus Girard's work is significant as a re-construction of the Christus Victor atonement theory.

Since Antonello was one of the first Italians to master Eyckian oil painting, and Christus was the first Netherlandish painter to learn Italian linear perspective, their meeting is a tempting answer to both questions.

Petrus Christus ’ portrait of a bride and groom visiting a goldsmith is a typical example of a transitional still life depicting both religious and secular content.

The adjective ( sola ) and the noun ( scriptura ) are in the ablative case rather than the nominative case to indicate that the Bible does not stand alone apart from God, but rather that it is the instrument of God by which he reveals himself for salvation through faith in Christ ( solus Christus or solo Christo ).

Solus Christus is the teaching that Christ is the only mediator between God and man, and that there is salvation through no other ( hence, the phrase is sometimes rendered in the ablative case, solo Christo, meaning that salvation is " by Christ alone ").

The Petrus Christus panel of 1449 illustrating this article, since the removal of its overpainted halo in 1993, is now recognized in the Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as the Vocational Portrait of a Goldsmith, and not as a depiction of Eligius.

#* Asserts the Protestant belief in solus Christus, that salvation is only found in Christ's death and resurrection

**** Dutch – Christus is opgestaan!

( Netherlands ) or Christus is verrezen!

The Christus is located in a domed room with large windows, painted with clouds, stars, planets, and other heavenly bodies.

Their traditional salutation is Laudetur Jesus Christus (" Praised be Jesus Christ "), to which the response is Et Maria Immaculata (" And Mary Immaculate ").

His most contrapuntal work is called Mysterium " Christus ", which is composed of a prologue and three separate oratorios and requires three days for a complete performance, a work which occupied him between the years 1894 – 1899 but whose conception reaches back to the 1860s.

** Second Oratorio: Christus der Prophet ( Christ the Prophet ), Op.

* Vatican II Texts from Christus Rex

In the 15th-century trompe l ' oeil painting Portrait of a Carthusian ( 1446 ) by Petrus Christus, a fly sits on a fake frame.

Thorvaldsen's Christus was recreated in Lego by parishioners of a Swedish Protestant church in Västerås and unveiled on Easter Sunday 2009.

The choir's recordings include two discs of Palestrina on the Hyperion label – the Missa Hodie Christus Natus Est with motets for Advent and Christmas, and the Missa Dum Complerentur with Pentecost motets and plainchant.

Latter-day Saints believe in the resurrected Jesus Christ, as depicted in the Christus ( statue ) | Christus statue in the North Visitors ' Center on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah | Salt Lake City

The Latin text on the logo Christus Heri Hodie Semper means Christ, Yesterday, Today, Forever.

* Christus resurgens, motet ( with the mass by Adrian Willaert based on it ), CD Naxos 8. 553211

Christus am Ölberge ( in English, Christ on the Mount of Olives ), Op.

The satisfaction view argues that Christ made satisfaction to the Father for the sins of humanity by His sacrifice on the Cross, penal substitution theory argues that Jesus received the full and actual punishment due to men and women, while the Christus Victor view emphasises the liberation of humanity from the bondage of sin, death, and the Devil.

He became the centre of a scandal on November 17, 1918, after giving a performance in Berlin Cathedral entitled " Christus ist euch Wurst " ( You don't give a damn about Christ ), which widely mocked the clergy, laity and politicians and resulted in his brief arrest.

The word Christ ( or similar spellings ) appears in English and most European language, owing to the Greek usage of Christós ( transcribed in Latin as Christus ) in the New Testament as a description for Jesus.

( vor Christus, before Christ ) and n. Chr.

( nach Christus / Christi Geburt, after Christ / the Nativity of Christ ); the use of this convention was already prescribed in Nazi Germany.

* Artemi, Eirini, « The mystery of the incarnation into dialogues " de incarnatione Unigenitii " and " Quod unus sit Christus " of St. Cyril of Alexandria », Ecclesiastic Faros of Alexandria, ΟΕ ( 2004 ), 145-277.

* Cornel Heinsdorff: Christus, Nikodemus und die Samaritanerin bei Juvencus.

Jahrhundert nach Christus.

Christus, by Lucas Cranach.

Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judæa, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their centre and become popular.

Adolf von Harnack argued that Chrestians was the original wording, and that Tacitus deliberately used Christus immediately after it to show his own superior knowledge compared to the population at large.

* Petrus Christus ( – 1475 / 1476 ), Early Netherlandish painter.

* R 6. 29 – Christus factus est in A minor

He wrote a Te Deum, settings of five Psalms ( including Psalm 150 in the 1890s ), about forty motets ( among them three settings of both Christus factus est pro nobis and Ave Maria ), and at least seven Masses.

Jahrhundert nach Christus.

These include his setting of the Easter responsory Christus resurgens ( a4 ) which was not published until 1605, but which as part of the Sarum liturgy could also have been composed during Mary's reign.

However, in 1896 an American textbook writer wrote that his statue of the resurrected Christ, commonly referred to as Thorvaldsen's Christus ( created for Vor Frue Kirke ), was " considered the most perfect statue of Christ in the world.

Additional replicas of the Christus include a full size replica at the The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland within its iconic dome, and a full-sized copy in bronze at the Ben H. Powell III family plot in Oakwood Cemetery in Huntsville, Texas as a memorial to the Powell's son Rawley.

Image: Thorvaldsen Christus. jpg | Christus, Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen.