Sentences with phrase «catholic church experienced»

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In this engagement with Scripture, Evangelicals and Catholics are learning from one another: Catholics from the Evangelical emphasis on group Bible study and commitment to the majestic and final authority of the written word of God; and Evangelicals from the Catholic emphasis on Scripture in the liturgical and devotional life, informed by the lived experience of Christ's Church through the ages.

I agree with CalBears... it's a personal choice we make when choosing to participate in the Lenten ritual, and just because someone has had a bad experience with their church or their Catholic faith is no reason to critcize.

Good he has experience, he can start by bouncing all the pervert priests out of the Roman Catholic Church for a start.

However, the group that has experienced the greatest net loss by far is the Catholic Church.

In 1533 John Calvin experienced his conversion, and later that year, one of John Calvin's close friends, Nicolas Cop, publicly sided with the Reformers in calling for changes in the Roman Catholic Church.

There is a kind of painful humor now about their early experiences in the Catholic Church.

By the 1960s and 70s the established Anglican and Catholic churches would be experiencing the power of this charismatic renewal; intensifying towards the end of the century with the arrival of John Wimber and his Vineyard Church in the UK, followed by the Toronto Blessing.

Novelist Mary Gordon, a perceptive interpreter of Catholic women's experience, affirms that Mary's submissive obedience has become «a stick to beat smart girls» («Coming to Terms with Mary,» Commonweal, January 15, 1982) Warner painfully recalls her own adolescent realization that the symbol of Mary as a model of chastity actually denigrates women and humanity, an understanding that transformed her perception of the church.

As late as the 1970s, Italian immigrant communities of Pentecostals were still saying to their American counterparts «you do not know the Catholic Church» in reference to their experiences in Italy.

Questions are raised about the Catholic Church's relative inexperience with vernacular liturgy compared to the 500 years» experience of the Church of England which allowed a sacral vernacular language to emerge.

But overall, what most of us experienced - on a huge scale and in a way that will touch our lives forever - was an atmosphere of prayer, of unity in the Catholic Faith, of a youthful Church focused on the reality of Jesus Christ.

Evangelical Protestant, Orthodox, Roman Catholic and mainline Protestant churches appear to confront unique situations, though perhaps the greatest crisis is being experienced among the mainline bodies (my own tradition).

Those Catholic spouses who found from their own experience that the Church's ban posed a serious threat to their own marriages — and often to a mother's physical and mental health — were forced to make choices that, either way, left them embittered toward the Church, or at least toward the hierarchy.

I am Catholic and Jesus has always been central to the Church's teachings as I've experienced it.

The Ukrainian Catholic Church, more than the three Orthodox churches, has been influenced by the experience of Western Christians and thus takes a different view of the relationship of the Church to the ethnos or nation.

Some people that have attended Catholic churches all their life might feel the same way about their experience as i do about mine with the Protestant Church.

Especially the Catholic Church which does not rely solely on personal emotional experiences.

I recieved the power of the Holy Spirit inn the Catholic church while recieving the gift of speaking in tongues and prophecy and have experienced the healing touch of Jesus in the Catholic Cchurch while recieving the gift of speaking in tongues and prophecy and have experienced the healing touch of Jesus in the Catholic ChurchChurch.

Former Catholic priest Patrick Wall, who now helps abuse victims sue the Catholic Church, said that term meant only one thing in his experience.

From Sara: Many experiences I have had with members of Pentecostal churches and their leadership believe and teach that the Catholic church (and other liturgical Protestant denominations) are not Christian churches.

In the words of Taylor, in a desire to communicate an experience of communion with evangelical Protestants, Weigel has traded «the traditional Catholic concept of a social communion with Christ through the Church with the classically Protestant concept of a subjective personal communion with the person of Jesus.»

Its intention is to affirm and explain the faith, life, and worship of the Catholic Church, and the fact is that - historically and theologically - the disputes with Lutherans, Calvinists, Zwinglians, and others in the sixteenth century is far from being the most formative experience in the Church's understanding of her faith, life, and worship.

While I have no dog in the hunt as to how best to preserve the Catholic understanding of the church, I do wish to preserve the twenty years of togetherness Catholics and Evangelicals have experienced.

I doubt that Orthodox faith communities are any easier to abide in than Catholic or Protestant communities when it comes to the mundane experiences of life; but at least those of us with mystical tendencies would not be attacked for being «pietistic» as we so often are in most Protestant, even many Catholic, excesssively rationalistic and legalistic Latin / Western Churches.

Instead the church is experiencing a «crisis» in which «the Catholic academy bears the stamp of marginality... [which] has encouraged some Catholics to abandon philosophy as a central component of the church's discourse.»

Perhaps he wants to win favor with the Castro regime so that the Catholic Church in Cuba can avoid the persecution experienced by Protestant evangelical churches on that island?

Generis: «For these reasons the Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions, on the part of men experienced in both fields, take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter - for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God» [italics added].

Communication with Protestant bishops and clergy has confirmed to me the long and deep experience of our Catholic Church.

Well, there you have it: what The Tablet wants for any convert is the half - cock reprocessed seventies Catholicism you get in RCIA (I speak from personal experience) rather than the full - blooded total Catholicism of The Catechism of the Catholic Church (which many of them already know far better than most cradle Catholics).

John Paul II well understood, both from his rootedness in biblically based teaching and from his experience of living under both the Nazi and the Communist totalitarian regimes, why both of these evil regimes were so threatened by the very presence of the Jewish people and the Catholic Church in the world.

And Catholic Studies programs must be thoroughly ecclesial: programs that think with the mind of the Church and give students an experience of the communion of the Church, through a distinctive residential experience on their home campuses and on the Rome campuses that many Catholic Studies programs have now established.

The unfolding of modern history played its role in taking the Church beyond this «thesis / hypothesis» business, not least because the experience of the Catholic Church in the United States demonstrated that religious freedom and (in American constitutional terms, «no establishment») could be good for the Church.

But for many churches in the «90s the return to the tradition of the church catholic will mean an increasing reliance on the historic experience of the church at worship.

What would you think of working on subject matter such as the history of evangelicalism, the Roman Catholic experience in America, the ministry of historic mainline Protestant churches, or the Mormons?

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Smaller churches (and my experience is w / Baptist churches, even ones larger than my home Catholic Church ever was) seem to demand exquisite style, high prices style, not the thought that went into keeping my dress nice (and clean) fixing my hair, applying a modest amount of make - up, etc..

In my experience Sunday School at the Catholic Church doesn't encourage kids to question the Church and their teachings.

All you need is a willingness to share your experience of married life and a commitment to the teachings of the Catholic Church.

A Frayed Knot — One of the things that I have seen from atheist's comments is that most of them have been raised in Catholics, gone to a Catholic church and had a very bad experience.

Well after my experience with the Catholic Cult er Church there is a great upside to Atheism, you no longer have to deal with the Alpha Male Wan na Be's who abuse children and abuse their followers in a number of ways.

In that case, since the hierarchy of the catholic church has no life experience in same sèx marriage, or contraception, or abortion, I expect that you will speak up and tell them to but out of what they do not understand.

The trend in churches in Europe, both Protestant and Roman Catholic, was to emphasize reason and a morality based on reason, Warmth of religious experience and expression was decried as «enthusiasm.»

In my experience, though, Cardinal Thomas Collins is one of the premier leaders of the Catholic Church today.

Francis didn't offer details about his career as a bouncer, according to L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, or what connection his velvet - rope experience might have to his current job as Vicar of Christ and head of the Roman Catholic Church.

«The Catholic Church's experience with this has raised public awareness, which probably helps to explain the swift reaction in this case,» says Francis X. Rocca, who covers the Vatican for the Religion News Service.

His experience of the revolutions of 1968 left him outraged at moral relativism and produced a Pope who made the Catholic Church even more resistant to change.

I particularly enjoyed the first few chapters, in which Driscoll describes his experiences teaching Confraternity of Christian Doctrine at the local Catholic Church and then math in Somerville schools.

Here, Simon Collis, phase leader and English subject leader at Emmaus Catholic and Church of England Primary School in Sheffield, explains how the conference offers a unique opportunity for pupils to explore their imaginations and develop their ideas into comprehensive debates and, in turn, helps to nurture important life skills and experiences.

my sisters and I began demanding change and forcing it upon them when necessary... We were tired of a van service that only took students to a Catholic Church when none of us were Catholic, we demanded that they invite Nikki Giovanni as a guest speaker (and they did), we researched and slowly changed the face of some of the «required events», we invited teen black boys from Hartford to spend the day on campus (this made many nervous, including the security guards who would grow frustrated with their inability to curtail this), we grew tired of the school dances that invited other boarding schools and included a DJ that played other music so we invited kids from Hartford, including a DJ and began hosting our own parties... I never forgot who I was and the rich history of my ancestors...... I am thankful for my varying educational experiences for they have shaped the educator that I have become.

Well, I suppose one could say that my childhood experiences with the Catholic Church, influenced the direction of my life and work, towards emotionalism.