The UCGC of Johannite Tradition under the Bishop T.T. (Willy) Williamson of Albany, New York (Universal Christian Gnostic Church)
Johannine community
The term Johannine community refers to a community that emphasized the Gospel of John, which elaborated on teachings attributed to Jesus that were not present in the Gospels of Mark, Luke, and Matthew.
Our particular Christian practices, rituals, and theology are called Johannine Christianity. Biblical scholars and historians of Christianity who assert the existence of such a community that drew heavily from Johannine literature in their doctrine include Harold W. Attridge and Raymond E. Brown.
The Johannine Comma (Latin: Comma Johanneum) is an interpolated phrase (comma) in verses 5:7-8 of the First Epistle of John. The text (with the comma in italics and enclosed by brackets) in the King James Version of the Bible reads:
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, the Water, and the Blood, and these three agree in one.
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Main Studies
The Johannine epistles, the Epistles of John, or the Letters of John, are the First Epistle of John, the Second Epistle of John, and the Third Epistle of John, three of the Catholic epistles in the New Testament. In content and style, they resemble the Gospel of John. Specifically, in the First Epistle of John, Jesus is identified with the divine Christ, and more than in any other New Testament text, God’s love of humanity is emphasized.
The Johannite Church (full title: l’Église Johannite des Chrétiens Primitifs, “The Johannite Church of Primitive Christians”) was a Gnostic Christian denomination.
We were NOT an esoteric sect or movement, no link to Fabré-Palaprat, our Gnosticism (from Ancient Greek: ‘knowing’) was a collection of religious ideas and systems that coalesced in the late 1st century AD among early Christians. Diverse groups emphasized personal spiritual knowledge (gnosis) over religious institutions’ teachings, traditions, and authority. Known today by the name Universal Christ or Cosmic Christ, a view of Christology which emphasizes the extent of Jesus Christ’s concern for the cosmos. The biblical basis for a cosmic Christology is often found in Colossians, Ephesians, and the prologue to the gospel of John.
Early Christianity, otherwise called the Early Church or Paleo-Christianity, describes the historical era of the Christian religion up to the First Council of Nicaea in 325. Christianity spread from the Levant, across the Roman Empire, and beyond. Initially, this progression was closely connected to already established Jewish centers in the Holy Land and the Jewish diaspora throughout the Eastern Mediterranean. The first followers of Christianity were Jews who had converted to the faith, i.e. Jewish Christians, and Phoenicians, i.e. Lebanese Christians. Early Christianity contains the Apostolic Age and is followed by, and substantially overlaps with, the Patristic era. The Apostolic sees claim to have been founded by one or more of the apostles of Jesus, who are said to have dispersed from Jerusalem sometime after the crucifixion of Jesus, c. 26–33, perhaps following the Great Commission. Early Christians gathered in small private homes, known as house churches. Still, a whole Christian community would also be called a “church”—the Greek noun ἐκκλησία (ekklesia) means “assembly”, “gathering”, or “congregation” but is translated as “church” in most English translations of the New Testament. The Early Christians, Irenaeus (c. 130 – c. 202 AD) offered one of the earliest articulations of a cosmic Christology in his Against Heresies. In his theory of atonement, Irenaeus speaks about how all of humanity was created good but tainted by sin, but that all of creation was “recapitulated” and restored under the new headship of Christ. This “cosmic” Christology would be a dominant view throughout much of the patristic period and within Eastern Christianity, while alternative positions began to arise during the medieval period.
TODAY WE ARE THE NEW LIFE CATHOLIC MINISTRY
In the modern period, a renewed interest in the cosmic Christ would arise among several Western scholars interested in developing an ecotheology.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was among the first to speak again of a cosmic Christ in the 1920s and 1930s. He understood the Incarnation as bringing the historical Christ into the material world and, through evolution, leading all creation towards perfection in the Omega Point.
Later scholars, such as Joseph Sittler, Matthew Fox, Richard Rohr, and Jürgen Moltmann, would likewise discuss the need to reclaim a cosmic Christology to express Christ’s concern for creation.
Ilia Delio is a Franciscan sister of Washington, D.C., theologian, author, and university professor. She holds the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair of Theology at Villanova University. Delio is the founder of the Center for Christogenesis, an online educational resource for promoting the vision of Teilhard de Chardin and the integration of science and religion.
We (EMMI) are a Franciscan Marianist & Teilhardist Organization that operates different ministries.
The Joannism remain in our Teilhard Universal Christ teaching, belief and practice; all our Theology and our Philosophy are based on two passages of the Bible, first John 1:1-5, In the beginning, was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. This one was at the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and apart from him, not one thing came into being that has come into being. In him was life, and life was the light of humanity. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.
Paul Oneness
And the second on Ephesians 4: 4-6 one body and one Spirit (just as also you were called with one hope of your calling), one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all. In one word, CHRIST.
We are a dispersed ecumenical Franciscan community member, practicing the Catholic faith using the Anglican Ritual. The corporation, Eric Michel Ministries International, is registered with the Corporation Canada as a Non-profit Religious Corporation since July 14, 2014
Protestant Catholics and Clerics devoted to the Roman Catholic Church’s teaching authority.
We do not have a pope or curia to manage our ministries at Eric Michel Ministries International. We have two boards, the Board of Bishops and the Board of Elders, who meet at the General Assembly. In 2010, the Assembly elected our Archbishop, the Most Reverend Eric M. Gagnon.
