The Most Rev. Justin Welby, archbishop of Canterbury, released a statement calling Benedict "a witness to the universal scope of the gospel and a messenger of hope at a time when Christian faith is being called into question".
"In his visit to the UK, Pope Benedict showed us all something of what the vocation of the See of Rome can mean in practice - a witness to the universal scope of the gospel and a messenger of hope at a time when Christian faith is being called into question.
Perhaps what has impacted me most about this latest attack in Egypt is the way that Smith, a white foreigner, concluded her account -- without condemnation of a religion, a people or a nation; and by acknowledging the universal scope of the problem.
But the covenant that God makes with Noah after the flood is applicable to the whole human race, and universal scope is explicit in the Wisdom books, which make a continual connection between how we should live and how we were created as human beings.
This was the reason why his inquiry, his historie, was of such universal scope.
The solution to explaining the apparently universal scope of ritual depended upon the success in locating the oldest cultures and cults.
The psychological as expressed in everyday personal relationships did not interest Limón: the choreographers who followed him lacked his universal scope, and most of their pieces were eventually dropped.
Others have expressed in different ways the thought that non-Christians also are included within the universal scope of Christ's salvific work and their religions fulfilled in Christianity.
For posterity Michelangelo has always remained one of the small group of the most exalted artists, who have been felt to express, like Shakespeare or Beethoven, the tragic experience of humanity with the greatest depth and universal scope.
This distinction between affirmation and negation is said to be one of quality, while the difference between the universal scope of the first two forms, in contrast to the particular scope of the last two forms, is said to be one of quantity.
