Incorporation (Christianity)

Term of the Christian theological lexicon, derived from the metaphorical vocabulary of the epistles of Paul saint, by whom this one indicates the social and collective process of the life of the grace, by analogy with the way in which an human body is organized and develops. By the grace rédemptrice, the faithful ones of Christ are incorporated to him, or assimilated, while being made participating of the hello which It has in plenitude and exemption free with all. Incorporation is thus integration, like member, of any man saved by Christ with her " body mystique" , i.e. with the Church, congregation of those which belong to Christ insofar as they are saved by Him and become similar to Him. Incorporation can thus be defined as the sociological or ecclesiologic effect of the grace rédemptrice exempted by the Mercy of God, mainly by the Baptism and the other means of hello entrusted to the Church.

By this configuration with Christ, the members of her body are entitled by thanks to taking part in its glorious destiny, mainly with its Resurrection, after being purified by the participation in its clean dead rédemptrice in the sacramental Baptism, then by the test of their clean dead physique. Since they form part of its body spiritually, they take part spiritually in the life of this Body, die with Christ and live again with him, not like head and source, which is the characteristic of Christ, but like member and participants.

It under the terms of these is presupposed that it develops lengthily that holy written Paul: “For me, the life it is Christ and to die a profit”. And still: “It is an unquestionable word there: if we die with Him, we will live with Him”.

The Pape Pie XII devoted an encyclical to the Mystical Body of the Christ, on June 29th 1943.

See: Mystici Corporis Christi

Reference

Catechism of the Catholic church, n° 1010.

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