Sentences with phrase «church fathers on»

The question is how representative of the whole Church these men and societies will be, whether the Augustines and Thomases, not to speak of the Senecas and Ciceros, who belonged to the Reformers» community of discourse are to be heard directly; whether the response of Christians to the fall of the Roman Empire is to be understood or only their response to the decay of medieval civilization; whether the thirteenth - century revival of the Church or only its eighteenth - century awakening is to be regarded; whether only the fathers of a denomination or also the Church fathers on whom they relied are to be included in the community of discourse.

Peter Abelard's seminal work, Sic et non, which quoted Church Fathers on both sides of a series of theological questions, set the tone for the Questions genre of the Middle Ages, The writer set out a Question, stated the best arguments on both sides (thesis and antitheses), made a determination (synthesis), and then rebutted each of the antitheses in detail.

Not exact matches

Father Gary Thomas, the priest who the film's main character is based on, preaches at a San Jose church on Saratoga Avenue.

We also rely on tradition, with many writings and reflections of the Fathers of the Church, such as those of Saint Augustine.

The USA is a place that is free from any kind of religious classification and official religious sponsorship, primarily because the founding fathers didn't want the church to have control on par with that of the church in England.

Father Michele Madonna's requested permission from local police to fix the # 40 device on the wall of the church.

Active (that is, regularly churchgoing), married conservative Protestant fathers have more one - on - one interaction with their children than do mainline Protestants, conservative Protestants who seldom attend church, or the religiously unaffiliated.

The Eastern Orthodox Church, for example and certainly not exclusively, endorses the teachings of pioneering Christian monastics known as the Desert Fathers, who placed great emphasis on living in continual «remembrance of death.»

On Luther's side, the final break with the Church authorities came in the wake of Leo X's bull of November 1518; in that document, as Luther saw it, Leo arrogated to himself the power of defining Church teaching without accountability to Scripture, the Fathers, or the ancient canons.

We were just going to press with an issue that included an outstanding article by Father Paul Mankowski, S.J., on the second draft of «One in Christ Jesus: A Pastoral Response to the Concerns of Women for Church and Society.»

Based on the doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints we believe that if we endure to the end Mark 13:13 we will be joint heirs with Jesus Christ in all that the Father hath.

BLACK «CULTURE» is VIOLENCE, ABSENCE of A FATHER, RAP BULLCRAP and they GO TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY?????? I'll continue to work my ass off, better myself and they can ROT IN HELL.

We were founded on the concept of SEPARATION of Church and State, because our Founding Fathers saw the struggle between the Church of England and the Church of Rome as the terrorist state that it was.

Going back to the early church fathers and Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, Thatcher argues that children should be «regarded as evidence of the blessing of God on marriage.»

Maybe you should go back and read the early church fathers, the men who learned the faith from the apostles and see what they have to say on this issue.

I am a real Christian not a church on Sunday forget about God the rest of the week Christian.You and the others here have insulted a friend a Father to me.

This was demonstrated vividly in the numerous church splits that I endured (including one that placed my father and I on opposite sides, a rift that still is not fully healed).

A few years ago Pope Benedict XVI gave a series of lectures on the early church fathers, and they have been collected into a book: Church Fathers: From Clement of Rome to Auguchurch fathers, and they have been collected into a book: Church Fathers: From Clement of Rome to Augfathers, and they have been collected into a book: Church Fathers: From Clement of Rome to AuguChurch Fathers: From Clement of Rome to AugFathers: From Clement of Rome to Augustine.

Evangelicals have been blessed with the recent increase of studies on the early church fathers.

I am not saying the church can stop a person from making bad decisions, but the church, despite its flaws, can help us grow and find wisdom without so much reliance on the school of hard knocks (an archaic term used often by my father).

this is what i learned from church on sundays as a child,: to honour my mother and father, to treat others with kindness, to not steal, not covet, to forgive, and treat my enemies with kindness.

The Imitation of Christ, commenting on the early Fathers of the Church, notes «how scrupulously they kept the fasts» having called attention to «the long and arduous temptations they had to suffer.»

The Fathers of the Church, the great writers and commentators on the Faith of the First Millennium, spoke of chastity under vow as «reverencing the flesh of Christ.»

«The Eucharist is the heart and the summit of the Church's life, for in it Christ associates his Church and all her members with his sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving offered once for all on the cross to his Father; by this sacrifice he pours out the graces of salvation on his Body which is the Church.»

After suddenly losing my father - in - law to a tragic car accident and my mother - in - law just two years later, all in the midst of leaving the church my husband had been on staff at for ten years to move to a new church in a new town with new friends, I had let my overwhelming circumstances crowd my heart and mind.

Salvador of Marcilles, a fourth century church father, said that when we say that Jesus had compassion on the people it means that all the individual suffering of many people is gathered in Christ and Christ bears all the suffering at the same time.

The church fathers agreed on that.

Father Neuhaus» argument is to read these reprobation texts as «suggesting a destiny of separation from God,» while reading other texts (Colossians 1:19 «20, 1 Corinthians 15:20 «28, Romans 5:18, 11:33 «36) as «suggesting the redemption of the entire cosmos,» leaving us free to choose between these mutually exclusive alternatives, since the Church in her wisdom has not pronounced on the matter.

``... very strong politically correct and left - wing revisionist history attitude or tone that's also Anti-American (especially a vague charge against «U.S. foreign policy»), and strong anti-capitalist elements... blasphemy, implied urinating, vomiting, scatological humor, and comments on breast feeding and sexual parts of people's bodies; light brief violence includes beating on car window and trying to damage car, man comically shoves people off a stage, man burns books; sexual content includes homosexual references, implied adultery with a pregnancy out of wedlock, talk about a priest raping boy in the past, a giant condom balloon placed on church steeple, references to real condoms, implied fornication; upper male nudity, man wears a dress; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking and marijuana use depicted, including eating marijuana brownies; and, strong miscellaneous immorality includes lying, stealing, revenge, rebellion, dysfunctional family portrayed, father is a pothead and a drinker and lives in a trailer»

«The challenge», wrote Father Alexander Lucie - Smith in his Catholic Herald blog shortly after the Holy Father had announced his resignation, «will be in having to watch the airwaves fill with a whole load of people who are very marginal to Church life, and yet who will be invited to pontificate on all matters papal and religious, giving it their own particular slant, which they will advance as a mainstream view.»

On the cross, the Lord Jesus bore wrath of his Father to establish his blood - bought church (Matt.

Powell accordingly takes his reader through varying accounts of the Trinity in Barth's Church Dogmatics, where Barth finally settles on a view that stresses God's inherent otherness: «God exists as the in - between of the Father and the Son; here God enters into and becomes that which is radically opposite God.

In his encyclical letter on the importance of St. Thomas» work, Pope Leo also alluded to the Church's need to maintain a deep study of science: «When the Scholastics, following the teaching of the Holy Fathers, everywhere taught throughout their anthropology that the human understanding can only rise to the knowledge of immaterial things by things of sense, nothing could be more useful for the philosopher than to investigate carefully the secrets of Nature, and to be conversant, long and laboriously, with the study of physical science.»

Few philosophers» lives can boast comic (or, for that matter, tragic) material comparable to Kierkegaard's aborted engagement to Regine Olsen, the bizarrely exaggerated symbolic significance he attached to it, his firm expectation of death before the age of thirty - four on account of some unnamed sin of his father's, his intentional provocation of a feud with the satirical review The Corsair, or his splenetic quarrels with the Danish Lutheran church (and so on).

This self - examination is based on a clearly delineated psychology of will that Gregory had learned from earlier church fathers (Tertullian, Jerome, Augustine) but had himself developed and refined.28 According to this psychology, the dynamics of guilt and self - alienation occur in three distinguishable stages, analogous to the fall of Adam.

The language of the New Testament also drew on this philosophical vocabulary, a fact the Church Fathers recognized as they continued a careful discernment of places of contact between classical philosophy and divine revelation.

«Jesus Christ, our Lord and God, when he was about to offer himself once on the altar of the Cross to God the Father, making intercession by means of his death, so that he might gain there an eternal redemption, since his priesthood was not to be extinguished by death, at the last Supper, «on the night that he was handed over», left to his beloved Spouse the Church a visible sacrifice, such as the nature of man requires, by which the bloody sacrifice achieved once upon the Cross might be represented and its memory endure until the end of the age, and its saving power be applied to the remission of those sins which are daily committed by us.»

Dear Synod fathers: please know you have the prayers of the ordinary faithful as you speak in faithfulness to the Word, whose bond with his Church is unbreakable and who has never abandoned us, never given up on us.

I sang loudly and more or less on key, and because my father was organist and choir director of the various Lutheran churches we attended during my boyhood, I was always drafted for the children's choir and occasionally even given a semi-prominent role, but I was never as good as my family heritage or personal eagerness might have predicted.

And when he was called home to the Father's house, he had oriented the Church toward the strategic goal John XXIII had defined on October 11, 1962: the reform of Catholicism for a third millennium of evangelical and apostolic action, for the healing of the world.

«Liberative Solidarity: Church in Witness and Reconciliation» in Contemporary Reflections on the Faith of our Mothers and Fathers: Personal Witness, ed.

I thought straight away this is a joke as scriptures tell us only the father knows the time of his sons return and hes keeping it to himself he hasnt even told his son yet.Mark 13:32 This a mystery isnt God all knowing and isnt Jesus God it is a mystery.Yet I like that that is the case because it proves that the father is not the son and the son is not the father they are separate yet they are one just like the holy spirit.I have come across denominations that believe the father son and holy spirit are the one person i asked them how they can say that when Jesus was baptized we see 3 separate persons.We have enough information to know that we are in the last days the signs are present and increasing.Ever since Israel became a nation the countdown has begun.The verse the enemy will come like a thief in the night i have heard preached many times and i believe the preachers have got it wrong because they preach it from the view for the church to get there act together or you will miss out.This view is incorrect because if you are a born again believer following him in obedience and relying on the holy spirit you are not walking in darkness but are walking in the light so you will not be caught unaware as those who are sleeping this is a warning for those who are sleeping or walking according to the flesh they are in darkness.Remember the 10 wise virgins the ones who were alert and keep refilling there lamps went in with the bride those who slept were left behind and so it will be when the Lord returns.Now is the time to prepare our hearts and lives to be ready for his return.It is an exciting time to be living and we are to live in the expectation that the Lord could return at any time brentnz

In a Mass celebrated in the Sistine Chapel with the College of Cardinals on the day after his election, the Holy Father raised cautions about clerical ambition» a yellow warning flag that reflected the concerns he had expressed during the papal interregnum about «spiritual worldliness» corrupting the Church, and an unmistakable call to a more energetically evangelical exercise of the priesthood and the episcopate.

The once - stellar giants of theology in the Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant «mainstream» have faded from the scene, only to be replaced by a new array of religious inventions bent on undermining the faith of the fathers in ever more heretical ways.

Prior to the time of the early church father Augustine, there is little evidence of discussion on the relationship of the synoptic gospels... and on side note of text book p. 47..

Morebath is a small sheep «farming village on the southern edge of Exmoor, and from 1520 to 1574 its parson, Sir Christopher Trychay (Catholic priests were then called «Sir» rather than «Father»), kept minute and still extant accounts of church life, which was then coterminous with village life.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

That constitutes, according to the fathers of the Church, the special dignity of human beings, and it should have been treated by Jenson in the section on «human personhood.»

Based on the Western medieval theology that describe the activities within the Trinity, the missio Dei concept suggests that mission should be understood as being derived from the very nature of the Triune God, that is, in the sending of the Son by God the Father, and God the Father («and the Son») sending the Spirit, and the Triune God sending the Church into the world.

«This False Prophet and His Blind Lemmings Welcome You to Our Whore House for God's Grace and Free Donuts,» Pastor Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seattle announced on his blog this week after learning that Westboro plans to picket one of his churches on Father's Day.