Sentences with phrase «as established churches»

It was not, of course, as prominent as the Established Church of England, yet it was a respected force of which political leaders were obliged to take notice.

This was partly because of their form of government and their long experience in running their own affairs both as an Established Church and as dissenters.

My problem is that Climate Alarmism has replaced the Church of England as the established church.

Not exact matches

It has gone so far as to call into question the criterion established in Familiaris consortio, which in number 84 says: «The Church reaffirms her practice, which is based upon Sacred Scripture, of not admitting to Eucharistic Communion divorced persons who have remarried.

«lhe Council established the main elements of Catholic culture as it exists today, and among those elements is the resolute assertion that «There is indeed one universal church of the faithful outside of which nobody at all is saved, in which Jesus Christ is both priest and sacrifice.»

The question is whether churches abroad, such as in the United States, Western Europe, and Australasia — comprised of Orthodox immigrants and converts long established in their new homelands, miles away and cultures apart from the «mother Churches, where they originated — have reached the maturity or acquired the single - mindedness and commitment to minister to their people and manage their affairs ichurches abroad, such as in the United States, Western Europe, and Australasia — comprised of Orthodox immigrants and converts long established in their new homelands, miles away and cultures apart from the «mother Churches, where they originated — have reached the maturity or acquired the single - mindedness and commitment to minister to their people and manage their affairs iChurches, where they originated — have reached the maturity or acquired the single - mindedness and commitment to minister to their people and manage their affairs in unity.

However much this move might cost in terms of philosophical clarity, it could be defended either as an accommodation to the power of the established church (in England) or to the necessary of popular enlightenment (in America).

♦ Carl Trueman argues that confessions establish constitutional restraints on church power: «In an age when words, especially words that make truth claims, are always suspected of being part of some manipulative power game, it is perhaps counterintuitive to think of confessions as delimiting the power of the church.

In the climate they have established, a number of indigenous denominations unrelated to Western mission agencies in origin (such as the Kimbanguists and other African independent churches, and a number of Pentecostal denominations in Latin America) have become a major force.

Mormons claim to be a complete restoration of the church of Jesus Christ as He established when on the Earth.

Dr Hood, who served as Moderator at the Church of Scotland's General Assembly between 2013 and 2014, established the Scottish board of the charity Remembering Srebrenica.

The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.

As someone in his late 40s (I literally ride the line between being a baby boomer and the oldest of the Gen - X crowd), I can appreciate much of what is said in the article, except that instead of the church being old - fashioned, I tend to see it as the church adhering to established sound doctrine and moral principleAs someone in his late 40s (I literally ride the line between being a baby boomer and the oldest of the Gen - X crowd), I can appreciate much of what is said in the article, except that instead of the church being old - fashioned, I tend to see it as the church adhering to established sound doctrine and moral principleas the church adhering to established sound doctrine and moral principles.

Much of the research has now been transferred to Arizona, The Pontifical Academy of Sciences was established as a sign of the Church's commitment to scientific research.

Saul of Tarsus was not just some ordinary person he was a Roman citizen, educated by the finest scholars of his day, a zealot for the Jews and you want to make believe he fell for myth, Jesus who his fellow Sanhedrin leaders hated and crucified was a myth, Saul was dispatched to kill those who believed in a myth, Saul witnessed Stephen filled with the Holy Spirit and stood by as Stephen was stoned to death over a myth, Saul later called Paul established the church over a myth, Paul tortured and killed for refusing to reject a myth.

Even as the absence of a feudal order and established church have shaped American institutions and political habits, the dialectic of a feudal order and established churches and of secularist rejection of religion has structured European attitudes toward the United States, particularly toward the American experiment in religious freedom and toward the seemingly unabating religious vitality that this system has produced.

As the Catechism of the Catholic Church makes clear: «The natural law, present in the heart of each man and established by reason, is universal in its precepts and its authority extends to all men» (1956).

He finds fault with «religious interpretation» in that it establishes priests and theologians as the guardians and rulers of the people of the church, and thus creates in thema state of dependence.

As Kinnaman puts it, «which model [does] the Church most resemble — the established monolith or grassroots network — and what might that mean for its relevance in the lives of a collaborative, can - do generation that feels alienated from hierarchical institutions?»

But as with the Old Testament Psalms and the New Testament Pauline letters, early church liturgical texts are improvisations on established patterns which are full of theological and pastoral significance.

Opposed to the established churches, which happily included saints and sinners, they regarded their own churches as churches of the saved.

Why, for example, was Newman so scathingly critical (even sarcastic) of the Established Church in Anglican Difficulties and yet so genuinely (if moderately) appreciative of the genuine graces given to him during his days as a member of the Church of England in the Apologia?

To speak of a «Church of the congregation» (Gemeindekirche), as distinct from the established Church (Volkskirche), is not unobjectionable.

Since the gospel is always received and appropriated in a specific cultural form, and since the church is established and functions as a social institution, the changes that are taking place in global societies have profound implications for churches (as profound, some have suggested, as our initial transition from a regional Jewish Jesus movement into a global Gentile church).

The Church was established in part to free us from these sorts of false constructs of man, as Blessed John Paul II proclaims in his encyclical Veritatis Splendor:

Pulling crabgrass in the backyard, weekending at a cabin in the mountains, watching televised NFL football games — these offered themselves as activities more harmonious with the established rhythm of life than attending church.

The Second Wave is understood as the influence of Pentecostalism on the mainline established churches, which eventually resulted in a distinguishable second movement.

As it stands, the Roundtable is a collaborative effort of wealthy East Coast Catholics, academics, editors, and Church activists who are determined to devise a strategy for establishing a major role for the laity in the governance of the Catholic Church in this country.

Building on the Catholic emphasis on the importance of free marital consent, Luther and Calvin developed further the covenantal understanding of marital commitment, elevated the status of women, emphasized the freedom of young adults to choose their partners, helped make marriage more compassionate and established marriage as a civic institution regulated by secular law yet also blessed and given meaning by the church.

Here, I could understand how you might be describing the West as having «excommunicated Christ» in that Western thought has ideas like separation of Church and State and many tend to believe that government should not be informed by «the Church», thus leaving the working paradigm you establish.

If the day of the formally established church ever ends once and for all, then transnational religious movements may be increasingly valued and supported and perhaps can be more effective as peace agents if they remain institutionally poor and weak.

Rather, it is a restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ as originally established by the Savior in the New Testament of the Bible.

At a small, newly established Southern Baptist church in Nashville, the pastor told us: «Currently we are in a training program, a training session, of what we as Baptists believe.

In The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief (1994), Marsden offers an elegiac account of the way in which the effort by liberal Christians to identify Christian ideals with Western civilization may have served to make many church - related colleges and universities halfway houses on the way toward a secularity that Marsden sees as hostile to Christian influence.

As the church faced the cultural upheavals at the turn of the sixteenth century, the response was to attempt to preserve the established structures and to put a damper on creative initiative.

In direct proportion to its being deprived of the cultural props that have sustained it as the established religion of the western world, the Christian church is being cast back upon its rudimentary confessional basis.

When Martin Luther posted his famous 95 theses on the door of the castle church in Wittenberg in 1517, printed books and pamphlets were already well established as a dominant medium of communication.

As a result of the revivals a large number of churches were founded outside the officially recognized State - established congregations.

The first thing they did whenever they wished to stop at a particular place, was to erect a tabernacle or temple to their false god for the duration of the time they expected to stay there, and they built this temple in the middle of the site on which they had established themselves, the ark being placed upon an altar such as is used in a church, for the idol wished to imitate our religion in many ways, as we shall afterwards show.10

By criticizing these two positions I am seeking to establish that, insofar as we are committed to genuine renewal in the churches that we represent, there are no short - cuts; we must begin with basics.

The Scriptures of the New Testament, or in other words, the documents of the New Covenant, are the authoritative record of that act of God by which He established relations between Himself and the Church; and they are the charter defining the status of the Church as the people of God, the terms upon which that status is granted, and the obligations it entails.

Harriet Martineau was a convinced Anglican who, coming to the United States in 1834 for a two - year period, compared the religious situation in America with what she perceived to be the «established» position of the church back home in England: «It appears to me that the one thing in which the clergy of every kind are fatally deficient is faith: that faith which would lead them, first, to appropriate all truth, fearlessly and unconditionally; and then to give it as freely as they have received it....

Where a church has a particular link with the state or is «established», as is the case with the Church of England, this may be a cause of discriminchurch has a particular link with the state or is «established», as is the case with the Church of England, this may be a cause of discriminChurch of England, this may be a cause of discrimination.

John Winthrop joined in a declaration which called the Established Church of England «our dear Mother» and referred to the Puritans as «members of the same Body.»

Jerusalem remained the headquarters of the Church as a whole, and the authority of its leaders seems to have been accepted without question by the new churches which had been established outside Palestine.

Marx's criticism is that the church taught the masses that the established order is willed by God and that, as obedient and submissive subjects, they should resign themselves to it.

Marx rarely misses the opportunity to vent his sarcasm at the self - seeking of the religious institutions as when he notes in Capital that «the English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.

Frederick I of Brandenburg established the university initially as a center of Lutheran culture, but this church relationship was soon abandoned.

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem was indeed established by Constantine after his mother marked the place as the burial place of Jesus.

First, it is interesting that in the fourth century, the road to Constantinople in 381 is not paved by blunt appeals to church authority but by extensive wrestling over biblical texts and fine - tooling of extra-biblical language (most notably the term «hypostasis») in an attempt to establish which exegetical claims made sense of Scripture as a whole and which fell short.