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"Protestant churches, especially those with Baptist leanings in theology, tend to emphasize the invisible church, whereas the Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches have often emphasized the visible church."
For me this sentence makes no sense. From what I understand Protestants claim that the invisible Church is something different from the visible church whereas Catholics (and Orthodox? I'm not so sure about them) claim that both are identical. This is not a matter of emphasizing. In catholic doctrine the supernatural aspect of the church is quite important. --[[User:Benedikt|Benedikt]] 14:01, 23 July 2008 (PDT)
: Okay. I can see what your saying. At the same time, I was trying to fix up the sentence you put in that is contradictory to what you've just said above. In your sentence you said something about the Catholic church recognizing some people outside the Catholic church to be part of the invisible church - or at least that is what it seemed to be saying. Perhaps we should just simplify the sentence for the time being to "Different denominations have slightly different understandings of the meanings of visible church and invisible church." We could start two new articles titled "Visible church" and "Invisible church" and expand in that. --[[User:Graham grove|Graham grove]] 14:11, 23 July 2008 (PDT)