Sentences with phrase «about church history from»

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When else in the history of the Church would anyone care what a happy - clappy bleeding - heart mum from western Canada thinks about anything?

Yes, the available history says that the heart was in the possession of the church about a century later, so either someone kept it for a long time after cutting it out of his corpse — yeah, that sounds likely — or it is a medieval «relic» that is actually the heart of a pig or a sheep that some clergyman sold along with genuine pieces of the cross and bones from St. Peter to make a buck on the rubes, uh, faithful.

From Eric: Since your doctorate is in historical theology, I'd like to hear your take on the shape the debate about women in the church has taken throughout history.

We'll cover the history of the church there, consider what we can learn from our Asian brothers and sisters about issues like contextualization and holistic mission, and finally, we'll discuss how we can apply what we've learned to our own churches and communities.

Nygren gives an important suggestion about the history of doctrine when he says that the Church Fathers were saved from falling completely into a Greek pattern of thought by the three biblical assertions of Creation, Incarnation, and Resurrection.32 But rather than conclude, as Nygren does, that these themes require us to reject all metaphysics, why not say that they require us to reconsider our metaphysics?

Newcomers often commented on what they learned from the testimonies about our history and about where the church was headed.

After I graduated from college, I stumbled upon Richard Foster's classic book Celebration of Discipline, and it rather unexpectedly led me into several years of learning about church history through the many diverse books and writers that Foster recommended.

Shortage of space prevents us from giving a survey of the doctrine of freedom as it emerges from the history of dogma and theology, or to discuss in detail the theological statements about the nature of freedom which are found in Scripture, tradition and the pronouncements of the magisterium of the Church.

Hopewell had pursued his fascination with the congregation through a yearlong examination of a local United Methodist and a local Baptist congregation, and arrived in Indiana that fall with a presentation woven of insights about the two churches drawn from fields as diverse as history, economics, statistics and sociology, with particular emphasis on literary analysis, symbolic language, anthropology and mythology.

All the great spiritual writers have known this, but few in the Church's history understood it better, experienced it more deeply, and wrote about it with more insight than John Cassian, the monk from southern Gaul who lived in the early part of the fifth century.

If you'll permit me to leave this thought: I have concluded after many years of «church hopping» to finally «no church» that what we need in the «church» is not anything «new» as stated in your last paragraph but rather a «liberation from»... I conclude that the church (organized or free) considers this return to liberty (brought about by Christ) as a legitimate «next step» in the history of «church» but that is firstly a lie and secondly opens up a door for even more destructive creativity by humans.

If he complained about Orthodoxy living in an ahistorical world of religious Let's Pretend, it was not because he thought the Church had that much to learn from history, especially the history of the West.

We pass the Santa Maria Novella church across the street from the train station Firenze S.M.N. and the impressive Duomo and then get a history lesson about Florence.

City tours are a great way to see the sites of most interest in Merida, visiting churches and museums, admiring the architecture and learning about the city's history from an expert guide.

With a fortified tower, churches and plenty more to view, a holiday to Seget is perfect for those that love to learn about history and get away from it all.

The project departs from Tanaka's curiosity about the local histories of The Showroom's neighbourhood, Church Street and comprises of a series of new collective acts and an exhibition of new and existing works.