Sentences with phrase «church in a pluralistic society»

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As has been said before, it is to be expected that in future the type of the Church both in the diocese and in the parish will be that of a community of faith in a pluralistic society.

In a pluralistic and rapidly changing society, there are strong pressures on all institutions - especially churches - to maintain a broad common denominator on practical issues.

But apart from these there is also the fact that the Church in much of the traditionally Christian world is still on the way from being an established Church (that is, a social institution to which all more or less belong) to a Church of personal faith in a pluralistic society.

I shall conclude my talk by referring to an important essay by Kuncheria Pathil on «A New Vision of the Church in a Religiously Pluralistic Society» (in Communalism in India the report of a Consultation organized by the Indian Christian Theological Association).

The separationist model of church - state relations, even in its moderate form advocated by Kelley, leads ineluctably to a more secular, less diverse and pluralistic society.

In a society which is religiously and ideologically pluralistic, this view has to be mediated to public life through the church and other voluntary groups committed to it.

There is some theological sense in the notion that the church models reconciliation in a pluralistic society by helping all kinds of people to get along together in church who would not associate, let alone work together in the world outside the church.

He makes a strong case that the idea of covenant, drawn from scripture and developed variously in different cultures and societies, is particularly suited to support public, just, pluralistic, federalist structures within the church and in the government.

Should the church, understood as a separate religious congregation or faith - communion, also set itself as a separate social and political community, or should it consider itself as a ferment in all social communities and the larger pluralistic secular society without itself becoming a communal body?

’12 Although «in the pluralistic society it can not be the socio - critical attitude of the church to proclaim one positive societal order as an absolute norm», 13 nevertheless, the church should have «the courage to formulate hypotheses suitable to contingent situations».14