Sentences with phrase «church in a free society»

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China's urban churches will be a major force in its democratization, for a free society requires a civil society capable of standing up to tyranny and the abuse of power.

If you can't stand watching your religion being criticized in a free society by free thinking adults, go live in a church without any access to the public or something.

It finds its appropriate organ not in a state, but in a Church, that is to say a society which is the embodiment of a purely spiritual tradition and which rests, not on material power, but on the free adhesion of the individual mind.

Nor did the Church fully appreciate the role of the media in a free society, and soon» instead of a subject of inspiration or dialogue partner in the media» the Church became a curious object of marginal interest, occasional scandal, and, sometimes, a whipping boy.

«7 Bennett gives as examples of middle axioms for our time the need of international collaboration in the United Nations, the maintenance of balance between free enterprise and government control of economic power, the removal of racial segregation in the churches and its progressive elimination in society.8 Provided such middle axioms are taken for what they are, as Christian «next steps» and not as a watered - down version of the full implications of the love commandment, they can be extremely helpful in the quest of a fuller justice as this is actuated by Christian love.

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Erecting the «wall of separation between church and state,» therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society.

Some years before Revelation was written, Paul was sending letters to churches in Asia Minor and Greece to build up the Christ - rooted societies with an egalitarian credo, recognizing believers whether they were Greek or Jew, male or female, slave or free, These assemblies stood «in contrast to the hierarchical social relations» in the empire, Horsley wrote in Paul and Empire, a book deemed significant by Wright, a New Testament scholar and the Anglican bishop of Durham.

Inherent in Christian understandings of the realities of the human condition and of what personhood might be if it were set free to flourish, and in Christian understandings of society and church, is a strong stress on human sociality and an equally strong resistance to the ways in which individualistic views of personhood erode or deny sociality.

In a functionally open society where black culture is free to flourish, the church has been edged out of the preferred status.

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Living blissfully in isolation, Hermocrates basks in the isolation of his Fame for he, in this period in an Age when society has broken free of the bonds of the Church, argues that the rational mind must make do without love or passion.