Sentences with phrase «church developed a tradition»

By its own accrued consensus of understanding, the Church developed a tradition of what is permitted (or even required).

Not exact matches

Lasch reminds us that the corrosion of our democratic way of life and especially our public discourse has its roots in widespread distrust of our institutions and the traditions around which they have developed and of which they are the expressions — whether the family, church, and local communities, or private enterprise and all the various levels of government.

They are revealed by God's historical and dialogical self - revelation by words and deeds, and in the fullness of time by God's eternal Son becoming flesh in a certain time and space of history; in church history under the guidance of the Holy Spirit they have to be witnessed to and developed through the living tradition (see the dogmatic constitution Dei Verbum, 2, 8).

The tradition from which he developed his own thought skipped from the Greek Fathers to the tradition of the Church of England.

Irregular and scandalous ways of celebrating the Lord's supper have developed in the church at Corinth, and Paul feels it necessary to appeal to the tradition to correct them.

We know, for example, that there were hymns and spiritual songs in the biblical church, and later, the rich traditions of chanting and polyphony developed.

These principles have a notable ancestry within the Calvinist tradition with which I identify: from the concept of sphere sovereignty developed by Dutch theologian and statesman Abraham Kuyper, to the Politics of the sixteenth - century German Calvinist Althusius, all the way back to Calvin himself, who spent the greater part of his career struggling for the freedom of the Church in a city where civil rulers dictated ecclesiastical policy.

In the modern context the just war teachings of the Catholic Church lie alongside the contributions of these other spheres to the developing tradition.

C. F. Evans sums up by saying, «It is plain that Matthew's final chapter furnishes neither reliable historical information nor early Christian tradition about the resurrection, but only an example of later christological belief as it had developed in one area of the church, and of the apologetic which had been conducted in that area in the face of Jewish attacks.

In seeking to develop a theology of nature, process theologians are supportive of endeavors to appropriate other images from the tradition, such as St. Francis» compassionate love for the poor and treatment of animals as sisters and brothers, the Orthodox view of the church as inclusive of all of creation, and the use of the elements of bread and wine in the Eucharist, products of the interworkings between God, the non-human natural world, and human labor, that speak, to contemporary needs.

I've been doing a lot of reading on church history recently (for that book I'm writing... Close Your Church for Good), and it constantly amazes me how much of what we do «in church» is a result of tradition (so much for Sola Scriptura) which developed 1000 - 1500 years ago as a result of a politician or priest who wanted more power or more church history recently (for that book I'm writing... Close Your Church for Good), and it constantly amazes me how much of what we do «in church» is a result of tradition (so much for Sola Scriptura) which developed 1000 - 1500 years ago as a result of a politician or priest who wanted more power or more Church for Good), and it constantly amazes me how much of what we do «in church» is a result of tradition (so much for Sola Scriptura) which developed 1000 - 1500 years ago as a result of a politician or priest who wanted more power or more church» is a result of tradition (so much for Sola Scriptura) which developed 1000 - 1500 years ago as a result of a politician or priest who wanted more power or more money.

The Gospels, of course, represent Jesus as being fully aware of his messiahship, but the fact that this awareness is more conspicuous in the later than in the earlier Gospels and, particularly, that in Mark the messiahship is a secret which at first no one and later only a few shared — this fact strongly suggests that the tradition that Jesus was conscious of being the Messiah developed in the church in response to its own faith in his messiahship, and does not truly represent Jesus» actual conception of himself.

Since a developing tradition does not sharpen and isolate metaphors but rather mixes and blunts them, we may assume that these two sayings have given nse to the tradition of faith «moving mountains» in the Church rather than vice versa, and there is good reason to accept their authenticity.

Gradually, however, the realities of cultural politics are becoming evident even to secular academics, and some political scientists have developed survey items that distinguish among religious traditions as well as levels of religious commitment (the latter measured by church attendance, devotional practices, and the like).

In the lives of women there exists a unique opportunity to develop a sense of God, and there exists something of the essence of God which, though made known to us in Christ, we missed because women were excluded from the ranks of church hierarchy and demeaned in religious tradition.

As I watch Christian theology and church tradition fall into a tradition that is rooted not so much in Scripture as in history, I was hoping to learn how and why the Jewish tradition developed as it did, and see if there were any similarities to how our own tradition is developing.

A pope can only help develop and expand upon truths contained in the Jewish - Christian story of salvation as recorded in the Bible and preserved in what is believed to be the divinely guided tradition of the Church.

I read this book, not primarily because I was interested in finding out how the Jewish Rabbinic tradition developed, but to learn what I could about how the Christian scholarly / church tradition is developing.

Liturgies, collections of prayers, theological statements, moral teaching, and much else are included in the general and developing tradition of the Church.

It was once primarily a matter of liberal arts, a tradition developed in the Medieval period when universities were closely tied to the church and theology was the queen of the sciences.

According to Antony Mookenthottam, it is probable that the ancient church in India had developed some theology of its own and this theology is not written down in books but it is implicit in the life, experience and traditions of the community.

In the early Christian exercises aiming to instill virtues such as peace of mind and absence of the passions, and in the tradition of contemplative monasticism as developed by such fourth «century Church fathers as Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and Gregory Nazianzen, Hadot detects a strong whiff of Greek philosophical practice.

The study of how traditions developed surrounding the Church Year is fascinating.

This tradition which comes from the apostles develops in the Church with the help of the Holy Spirit.

All of these sayings are testimony to the developing tradition in the Church; they are not evidence for the teaching of Jesus.

The first two of these changes are characteristic of a developing tradition in the Church, and since the early Christians spoke of the coming of the Son of man very much as Jesus had spoken of the Kingdom as a future hope, we can readily imagine that they could have taken the original and genuine saying of Jesus, Luke 17.20 f., and transformed it in this way to express their expectation.

Ecumenism refers to efforts by Christians of different Church traditions to develop closer relationships and better understandings.

But Canada has developed a strong tradition of keeping church and state separate and the idea of injecting religious imagery into the legal system makes many people uncomfortable, says James Stribopoulous, a professor specializing in criminal and constitutional law at Osgoode Hall Law School.