Sentences with phrase «church over divisions»

Kasich is a member of the Anglican Church of North America, formed following a split with the Episcopal Church over divisions regarding biblical...

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A brief exception was the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, a body of 2.5 million members, when in the 1970s it went through explosive disputes and divisions over doctrine.

Arthur Paul Boers focuses on pastoral leadership; Lillian Daniel offers a moving reflection on liturgy, a congregation's division over a war - resolution debate, and a surprising instance of local church triumphalism; and Eugene McCarraher argues that the church is the political community within which Christians must debate war and peace.

In the aftermath of the victory over Communist domination of Eastern Europe, previously hidden divisions are surfacing within the churches that played such a crucial role in that struggle.

An Episcopal Church quarrel over the ordination of women, the Book of Common Prayer, who gets the property in separation and the division of memorial gifts.

But those days are long over and that church has revoked those beliefs and denied any racial division of goodness, worth or blessings.

At first the traumas of the depression afforded a rallying cry for church liberals, but divisions soon developed over the question of class struggle and the use of coercion — divisions that were to deepen as the world situation darkened and war loomed on the horizon.

Rod Dreher had an interesting post last week about the continuing division in the Episcopal Church over doctrinal issues.

Since that time, while many internal divisions persist, the United Church of Canada has been able to get on with other things, including great global concerns of social justice that must have a certain priority over personal morality and church pChurch of Canada has been able to get on with other things, including great global concerns of social justice that must have a certain priority over personal morality and church pchurch polity.

scandalous division over something as basic and fundamentally simple as Christian initiation must stop; it devastatingly hinders the mission of the Church to evangelize the world according to the Great Commission of Christ; it keeps churches from sharing each other's Christian riches to their mutual great impoverishment.

One of the first divisions arose over persecution and how to respond to those who denied the faith to avoid persecution (including torture and death), and yet wished to return to the church.

Not only division over theological and ethical issues but also differing patterns of ministerial placement and job security cause deep concern for many otherwise sympathetic church leaders.

A church that is the largest voluntary association in the country; a church whose universal pastor has, over the past decade, definitively answered Stalin's cynical query about the pope's divisions; a church that is, demographically, at its strongest historical point of leverage in American society — this is a church that would seem well positioned to seize what Richard John Neuhaus and others have seen as a possible «Catholic moment» in American history, pro Deo et patria.

1/12/04 Link to post «Our pastor actually stopped his sermon one Sunday and addressed the division in the church over GKGW....

The governor, speaking at a Baptist church in Harlem over the weekend, announced a special investigative unit of the State Police and Division of Human Rights to look into the allegations.

so weird that you would say that when the history of the church at least back to the 6th century shows a continual division over the issue.