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Line 1: {{short description|Religious term}} {{Multiple issues| {{For|the historical term about various groups of people who have considered themselves to be chosen people by a deity for a purpose|Chosen people}}▼ {{Essay|date=January 2024}} {{Global|date=January 2024}} {{Citations needed|date=January 2024}} }} ▲{{For|the historical term about various groups of people who have considered themselves to be chosen people by a deity for a purpose|Chosen people|Indian films|Devudu Chesina Manushulu (disambiguation)}} '''''People of God''''' ({{lang-he|עם האלהים}}) is a term used in the [[Hebrew Bible]] to refer to the [[Israelites]] and used in [[Christianity]] to refer to [[Christians]]. Line 10 ⟶ 15: ===New Testament=== In the [[New Testament]], the expression "people of God" is found in {{bibleverse||Hebrews|4:9|ESV}} and {{bibleverse-nb||Hebrews|11:25|ESV}} {{bibleref2|Romans|9:25-26|ESV}}, also quotes/refers to {{bibleref2|Hosea|1:10|ESV}} and {{bibleref2|Hosea|2:23|ESV}}. {{quote|As He says also in Hosea: "I will call them My people, who were not My people, And her beloved, who was not beloved." "And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, 'You ''are'' not My people,' There they shall be called sons of the living God."}} ==Christianity== Continued use of the expression "people of God" (in [[Latin]], ''populus Dei'') in the writings of the [[Church Fathers]] are found in [[Augustine]]'s ''[[De civitate Dei]]''<ref>[ In [[Goidelic languages|Gaelic]], Latin ''populus Dei'' became ''pobal Dé'' and has continued for centuries to be an expression in everyday use for the [[Christian Church|Church]] in a [[parish]], a [[diocese]] or the world.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.corkandross.org/documents/DPS_01.pdf |title=Parish as ''Pobal Dé'' |access-date=11 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071117024937/http://www.corkandross.org/documents/DPS_01.pdf |archive-date=17 November 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>A poem in an eighteenth-century [http://www.isos.dias.ie/resources/image.html manuscript] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061010120100/http://www.isos.dias.ie/resources/image.html |date=10 October 2006 }} begins with ''Is fairsing dealbh pobal Dé'' ("Extensive is the aspect of the people of God").</ref>▼ === The phrase has been given greater prominence within the [[Catholic Church]] because of its employment in documents of the [[Second Vatican Council]] (1962–1965).▼ ====Second Vatican Council====▼ ▲Continued use of the expression "people of God" (in [[Latin]], ''populus Dei'') in the writings of the [[Church Fathers]] are found in [[Augustine]]'s ''[[De civitate Dei]]''<ref>[http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/augustine/civ19.shtml ''De civitate Dei'' 19:26]</ref> and [[Pope Leo I|Pope Leo I's]] Lenten Sermon.<ref>[http://www.frcoulter.com/leo/latin/tractatus50.html Lenten Sermon 50:2]</ref> Its use continued up to and including [[Pope John XXIII]]'s [[apostolic letter]] ''Singulari studio''<ref>[https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_xxiii/apost_letters/1960/documents/hf_j-xxiii_apl_19600701_singulari-studio_lt.html ''Singulari studio'']</ref> of 1 July 1960, two years before the [[Second Vatican Council]]. ▲The phrase has been given greater prominence within the [[Catholic Church]] because of its employment in documents of the [[Second Vatican Council]] (1962–1965).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Vatican II themes: The people of God |url=https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/essays-theology/vatican-ii-themes-people-god |access-date=2023-05-03 |website=www.ncronline.org |language=en}}</ref> The [[Apostolic constitution|dogmatic constitution]] ''[[Lumen gentium]]'' devoted its chapter II to "the new People of God", "a people made up of Jew and gentile", called together by Christ (section 9). It spoke of "the people to whom the testament and the promises were given and from whom Christ was born according to the flesh" as among those who "are related in various ways to the people of God" (section 16). It described in detail the qualities of this People of God in words "intended for the laity, religious and clergy alike" (section 30), while also pointing out the specific duties and functions of the different ranks of which it is composed, such as that of "those who exercise [[Holy Orders|the sacred ministry]] for the good of their brethren" (section 13).▼ ▲In [[Goidelic languages|Gaelic]], Latin ''populus Dei'' became ''pobal Dé'' and has continued for centuries to be an expression in everyday use for the [[Christian Church|Church]] in a [[parish]], a [[diocese]] or the world.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.corkandross.org/documents/DPS_01.pdf |title=Parish as ''Pobal Dé'' |access-date=11 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071117024937/http://www.corkandross.org/documents/DPS_01.pdf |archive-date=17 November 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>A poem in an eighteenth-century [http://www.isos.dias.ie/resources/image.html manuscript] begins with ''Is fairsing dealbh pobal Dé'' ("Extensive is the aspect of the people of God").</ref> ▲====Second Vatican Council==== ▲The dogmatic constitution ''[[Lumen gentium]]'' devoted its chapter II to "the new People of God", "a people made up of Jew and gentile", called together by Christ (section 9). It spoke of "the people to whom the testament and the promises were given and from whom Christ was born according to the flesh" as among those who "are related in various ways to the people of God" (section 16). It described in detail the qualities of this People of God in words "intended for the laity, religious and clergy alike" (section 30), while also pointing out the specific duties and functions of the different ranks of which it is composed, such as that of "those who exercise [[Holy Orders|the sacred ministry]] for the good of their brethren" (section 13). In 2001, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who was to become Ratzinger also declared that the term is not to be understood in way that would reduce it "to an a-theological and purely sociological view" of the church.<ref>[http://www.ewtn.com/library/Theology/ZMYSTERY.HTM Church as "Mystery" or "People of God"]</ref> [[Michael Hesemann]] wrote: Line 33 ⟶ 37: While the council distinguished between the Jewish people and "the new People of God", [[Carl E. Braaten]] has said that, being somewhat analogous to the expression "[[chosen people]]", the term "People of God" suggests a persisting trend of [[supersessionism]] in the church, and that the expression "People of God" implying that the church is the same people as [[Abraham]], [[Isaac]] and [[Jacob]] in the [[Hebrew Bible]].<ref>Jews and Christians : People of God, Carl E. Braaten</ref>{{Verify source|date=May 2009}}{{Page needed|date=May 2009}} ====
The concluding messages of each [[General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops]] are addressed to "the People of God."<ref>For example, [https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/synod/documents/rc_synod_doc_20081024_message-synod_en.html Message of the October 2008 assembly]</ref> ====Catechism==== The [[Catechism of the Catholic Church]] devotes a section to describing the church with this ==See also== | |||