charisma
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Within the Catholic movement, they referred to themselves as catholic Charismatics because charisms referred to gifts of the spirit as a way to distance themselves from Pentecostals, Csordas said.
From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2020
“If I believe God is calling me to be a priest, I also believe he will give me charisms — gifts — that will help me.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2017
When I was a child growing up in the mental prisons and wild charisms of West Texas, this crisis of consciousness, this one moment of existential decision, had a tremendous and eternal urgency.
From Time • Oct. 30, 2015
Tradition and reason had taken the place of charisms as courts of appeal.
From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil
"What made the Christian a Christian was no longer the possession of charisms, but obedience to ecclesiastical authority," share in the gifts of the Church, and the performance of penance and good works.
From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil
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