The subject of this article is the use and theological content of the phrase in Christo. It is interesting, that this phrase is proportionally very often found in the Epistle to the Philippians. This phrase has no short form. It has a profound content, which should be surely well understood by the recipients. The phrase in Christo is short in print and brief and contains the whole soteriology of the apostle of the nations. In the Epistle to the Philippians Paul has stated that the real lifepower of the Church always comes from Christ. It realizes always through the visible esse in Christo. In conclusion, the phrase in Christo indicates the transcendental fusion of both single Christians and the whole Church with Christ (verticale communitas).
