Sentences with phrase «church fathers began»

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-- like the Republican evangelicals who all think their church is the most Christian, the most right, the only ones going to heaven yet ignore the real teachings of Jesus by judging others, ignoring charity and the needs of their community, not understanding when the Lord's Prayer begins with «Our» Father — the «Our» is not just white people.

In fact, by confusing Tradition with traditionalism and radically opposing the Scriptures to Tradition, much of the Christian wisdom Tradition, beginning with the writings of the early Church Fathers (& Mothers) and continuing even into modern time, the Protestant Reformers have cut much of the Western Church off from the ongoing Revelation of the Christian wisdom Tradition.

In purely aesthetic terms, it's hard to imagine a starker contrast than which Father Ed Tomlinson and his family and flock must have felt four years ago when, as a group, they left their Anglican parish church of St Barnabas in Tunbridge Wells, where Father Tomlinson was vicar, entered the Catholic Church through the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham and began their new life at St Anselm's in the nearby village of Pechurch of St Barnabas in Tunbridge Wells, where Father Tomlinson was vicar, entered the Catholic Church through the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham and began their new life at St Anselm's in the nearby village of PeChurch through the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham and began their new life at St Anselm's in the nearby village of Pembury.

The description of each of the station churches begins with suggested Bible readings and other texts from the commentaries and sermons of the church fathers, followed by a meditation.

A year and a half ago, Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York began a program of adult education, offering classes on topics as demanding and varied as «The Nature of God the Father» and «Renaissance and Reformation: The Formation of the Protestant Tradition.»

The gunman, Devin Patrick Kelley, began firing into the church as John Holcombe's father Bryan an assistant pastor, ascended to the pulpit.

The historico - cultural context in which the papacy finds itself at the beginning of the twenty - first century has significantly more in common with the era of the great Fathers of the Church such as Athanasius, Ambrose or Gregory the Great than with more recent centuries.

The meeting began on a Wednesday night at the bucolic campus of the University of Saint Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Illinois, and the frank discussion quickly moved into a variety of topics including several difficult ones such as the Council of Trent, which is particularly anti-Protestant but still binding for Catholics, and the Catholic doctrine of the church as the prolongation of the incarnation of Christ (presented by Father Thomas A. Baima, the Catholic co-chair of the event), as well as social issues ranging from care for the poor, abortion, and the recent developments in gender and sexual ethics in the West.

The Protestant Reformation began the necessary work of cleansing Christianity of the trappings of the Roman Empire that had crept into it after the church fathers got into bed with Constantine I. However, the Reformation stopped far short of completing that work.

Beginning with the church Fathers, theologians undertook to conceive the God attested by Holy Scripture as the wholly absolute Being of the philosophers.

It was, I said, «good and hopeful stuff, which encourages one to hope that he will be using his obvious capacity to work out what's going on in a particular secularised culture to help the Church here to begin the fightback, in the most effective way open to him - that is, by helping the Pope to appoint bishops who will do everything they can to implement rather than to undermine the Holy Father's agenda.»

Nothing less than God — albeit God in the mystery of his being as Father, Son and Holy Spirit — is the object toward which Scriptures, Church and Jesus Christ himself direct those who begin by loving them.

Well before that traumatic date, from as far back as William's thirteenth year, his father John had apparently begun to run into financial difficulties, at which time he tried to avoid town meetings and church attendance, allegedly to elude summons by subpoena (one could be served for debt in church).

However my journey has been one that began in a home where I was abused by my father who preached «the gospel» and served as a Deacon in the church.

While living in a house with no running water and a wood burning stove for heat and cooking Sean's family began attending a charismatic Baptist church and it was in this church that a son saw his father converted.

The changes in the liturgy are rooted in the theological stirrings after World War I: the gradual breakdown of neo-Scholastic metaphysics, the beginning of Catholic biblical scholarship, and a return to the study of the church fathers.

The church fathers would read of humanity made in the image of God and think: Yes, we all bear the image of the divine Logos that was in the beginning, who in due time became flesh and dwelt among us (John 1:1, 1:14).

Konstan's account of friendship — which is historically, philologically, and philosophically informed — begins with Homeric Greece, proceeds through the classical and Hellenistic periods, discusses Roman views, and ends with some of the fourth — century church fathers in the world of late antiquity.

But a theological inquiry that narrows the historical community, that excludes from the conversation such men as the early Fathers of the Church, or the medieval theologians, or the Reformers, or the sectarians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, or the Puritans, Pietists and social gospelers, or such movements as monasticism, scholasticism, Biblicism, et cetera impoverishes itself from the beginning.

When Eli (Rysdahl) begins preaching at his father's old church, he is desperate to open the minds of the fire - and - brimstone congregation.

Kate has only known a world where her church is the ultimate authority, but after her father's death, she begins to question her allegiance.

Father Velghe painted this church in 1842, and this parish continues the work Father Velghe began more than a century ago.

This journal, created in 1935 and co-directed beginning in 1937 by Fathers Couturier and Régamey, fervently defended various contemporary trends in art before they were accepted in the churches, including the work of Fauvist and Expressionist Georges Rouault and of abstract painters.