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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> ===Catholic Church=== ====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>{{ 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). Line 38 ⟶ 43: ====Catechism==== The [[Catechism of the Catholic Church]] devotes a section to describing the church with this phrase,<ref>[https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P28.HTM Catechism of the Catholic Church, ==See also== | |||