Sambahayan ng Diyos and the Four Creedal Attributes

The local concept of sambahayan will be examined and developed for its “appropriateness” to convey the Christian ecclesia as sambahayan ng Diyos (family household of God). This locally-generated understanding will also serve as a model for explaining the nature of the Christian ecclesia itself. Thus, this adoption of the local category of sambahayan serves to encapsulate and contextualize the Catholic Church's four creedal attributes of unity, holiness, catholicity, and apostolicity. Without this move of contextualization-appropriation, the creedal attributes lack moorings and relevance in Filipino culture and society.