Sentences with phrase «images of the church in»

For help, see Susan B. Thistlewaithe, Metaphors for the Contemporary Church (New York: Pilgrim Press, 1983); Avery Dulles, Models of the Church (New York: Doubleday, 1974); and Paul Minear, Images of the Church in the New Testament (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1960).

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Images of giraffes and the color purple — two of Christina Morris» favorite things — were in abundance during the service at First Baptist Church.

Rather, the theological and scientific advisers to the section included a Canadian member of parliament, who is also a United Church minister, quoting William Stringfellow, Rachel Carson, and John Cobb; a theologian from Hong Kong who called for rejecting the «commander» image in Genesis of God giving shape and order to what he has made, in favor of the (female) «brooding spirit» image «which best addresses our current crisis»; and Larry Rasmussen of New York's Union Seminary, who linked the work of the Spirit with the growing environmental movement.

They noted the «increasing departure from the basis of the WCC» — which they defined as primarily to restore unity to the Church — and cited «a growing departure from biblically based Christian understandings» of the Trinity, salvation, the gospel, the doctrine of human beings as created in the image of God, and the nature of the cChurch — and cited «a growing departure from biblically based Christian understandings» of the Trinity, salvation, the gospel, the doctrine of human beings as created in the image of God, and the nature of the churchchurch.

The belief that all are made in the image of God carries with it profound moral implications for the church.

The Formula of Concord, which is central to the confessional documents of the Lutheran church, declares that original sin has replaced the image of God in human beings with «a deep, wicked, abominable, bottomless, inscrutable, and inexpressible corruption of his entire nature in all its powers, especially of the highest and foremost powers of the soul in mind, heart, and will.»

i got such a shock when i saw this image and comment, the image took me by suck surprise, after 8 months of not being in church, and not caring what you thought, to start crying in the students union, is kinda a big deal..

North Point's funky architecture, the hologram that beams Stanley's image to satellite churches, the stage lights and visual props Stanley uses during sermons — all of it is geared toward pulling in that new audience.

Levy, a professor of historical theology at Providence College, overturns the image of a placid medieval Church and shows instead that the crises of interpretive authority that we associate with the early modern period in fact have their roots in the turbulent controversies of the Middle Ages.

If man is not made more in the image of God than woman is, then how does man leading church better represent the relationship of God to man than a woman leading church would?

Instead I hope these conversations of practice return us to the unique image of God our churches were meant to reflect in our local context.

This image reminded me of the gracious convo we had on FB last night in regards to my leaving my church after being asked to join the board.

«Most of the baptized have an image of the church that, on the one hand, is family friendly in its attitude, whilst at the same time considering her sexual morality to be unrealistic,» the German bishops said, according to National Catholic Reporter.

When I arrived in Africa, my image of the relationship between church and state was fired by headlines about Desmond Tutu and Allan Boesak.

«David Hayward says more of the hopes of God, the struggles of the church and the possible path forward for us all in images than anyone could with words.»

But informing the whole is the image of Scripture as a painting, with Jesus the incarnate Word as the «ground» against the «background» of the triune God, and the Church and cosmos in the «foreground.»

These twin factors converge in passages that picture the church as a Body, and so in the minds of many, the Body is the main image for the church.

This approach tends to emphasize the symbolism of radical mutual self - giving, in the image of Christ and His Church.

2) Equating worship of a deity with worshiping an image of said deity is ludicrous... unless you believe that all of the Christians with pictures of Jesus and / or crosses in their homes / churches are worshiping the picture / cross.

In the image of Psalm 82, whatever we claim to do in our churches, as a people we have worshipped the gods against whom the God of Israel speaks in the counciIn the image of Psalm 82, whatever we claim to do in our churches, as a people we have worshipped the gods against whom the God of Israel speaks in the counciin our churches, as a people we have worshipped the gods against whom the God of Israel speaks in the counciin the council.

Back in November 1977 the co-founder of Faith Movement wrote, as editor of this magazine, «There will be no traditional priesthood left in Europe in ten years time, among the younger clergy, unless a start is urgently made to teach priests the full faith, the full spiritual heritage of the Church, and the full content of the life of Christ in the traditional image of the priest of the Western Patriarchate, the priesthood of the Latin rite, which is the priesthood of the fullness of Peter and Paul.»

First, chastity as total consecration, in the image of Christ the Bridegroom who is wedded to mankind, and to the Church as His Bride.

Where then does all this leave us in regard the image of the Church as a «fortified city»?

But doesn't the image of the Church as a «fortified city», taken from the Old Testament, conflict with the spirit of Lumen Gentium, the Vatican II dogmatic constitution on the Church, and Gaudium et Spes, the Pastoral Constitution the Church in the Modern World?

«The second person of the Trinity is revealed as the eternal Son not daughter; the Father and the Son create man and woman in His image and give them the name man, the name of the male... God appoints all the priests in the Old Testament to be men; the Son of God came into the world to be a man; He chose 12 men to be His apostles; the apostles appointed that the overseers of the Church be men; and when it came to marriage they taught that the husband should be the head.»

And it is a dismissive, hurtful way to speak about women, who Piper seems to have forgotten were also created in the image of God, were appointed by God as leaders at critical times in the history of Israel and the Church, and were the first to whom Jesus appeared when he inaugurated his new Kingdom on Resurrection Day.

And after all, what can I expect when, as a church leader, I quit and tell the pastor I can't stay and listen to him preach because it makes me want to throw up — and refuse to preserve the image of the church by lying to protect a sexual predator in the pulpit.

Love Is Our Mission, a preparatory catechesis on family tied to the Catholic Church's upcoming World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, begins exactly as it should: with Jesus revealing that being created in the image and likeness of God means being created to offer others the gift of ourselves.

True, some Evangelical leaders have spoken well lately of Vladimir Putin, who makes Orthodoxy a major part of his public image, and some Evangelical organizations have cooperated with the Russian Orthodox Church in international conferences on the family.

Our interpretation of the self - image becomes theological when we speak from within the faith of the Church and say that the objective reality which stands between persons is God made personal and available to us in Jesus Christ.

Write a blog post that highlights the feminine images of God found in Scripture or that celebrates the importance of women in the Church.

is the author of Finding Divine Inspiration (Destiny Image) and The Creative Church Handbook: Releasing the Power of the Arts in Your Congregation (InterVarsity Press).

What Teilhard has given us in his vision of the «within» is a revolutionary idea and image of the church: here the church becomes understood and affirmed as a new and cosmic body of humanity.

The image of the pit stop might easily work for church services if one could think only of the gassing up and servicing a car gets at the race track and say that the Christian needs to come every Sunday to get gassed up and serviced — but already we are in deep trouble.

Secondly, picking up on the latter point, virginity throughout Scripture is an image of obedient, covenantal faithfulness between Israel and God, and between the Church and Christ; it is this fidelity that the virgin is called to embody in herself.

I never felt my sexuality was shameful or image based, nor was I objectified, in my life outside of the church.

Google «Tea Party Jesus» and click «images» for a quick view of this on target parody of the «Jesus» far too often presented, even in evangelical churches, to tell the truth.

The hermaphroditic blasphemy is a generated or vegetated Christ and a virgin Eve — the orthodox image of Christ, for the Church castrated Jesus when it locked the memory of his generation in the image of a virgin birth, just as it dehumanized and falsely spiritualized his body in its belief in the ascension.

To warrant this radical revision — one might almost say reversal — of the Catholic tradition, Father Concetti and others explain that the Church from biblical times until our own day has failed to perceive the true significance of the image of God in man, which implies that even the terrestrial life of each individual person is sacred and inviolable.

Until now (and with the exception of one attempt, fortunately thwarted, against a church in Ivry), the fanatics had attacked aspects of the flattering self - image that we «citizens» have of ourselves: the iconoclastic insolence of Charlie Hebdo, the pagan cult of sport at the French National Stadium, the carefree pleasure of the Bataclan and the boho outdoor cafés of the Eleventh Arrondissement in Paris, the 14th of July fireworks in Nice celebrating a Revolution that has promoted great ideals but also the guillotine...

The continued use of the word «God» with all its associations and images from the old world always constitutes a temptation to turn back in the direction of mythology, and that leads to idolatry, which has always been the church's greatest weakness.

In departing from the clear teaching of the Church on our sexual identity, we do injury to our personal dignity as being male or female image - bearers of God and prevent ourselves from resolving the most fundamental question each of us strives to answer: «Who am I?»

I do think some of the problem lies in seeing the church as an organisation, an ideal as David puts it, or an image we try to attain to.

While the country reels in horror at the lack of moral backbone from the power elite at PSU — putting their «image» above the safety of young boys — the pastor of this church allows himself to be pushed into an act of moral (and Christian) cowardice by the sinners in his midst.

In speculating on this image, I suggest that the reader bear in mind that no attempt has been made at a general discussion of Christian education whether in local church or elsewherIn speculating on this image, I suggest that the reader bear in mind that no attempt has been made at a general discussion of Christian education whether in local church or elsewherin mind that no attempt has been made at a general discussion of Christian education whether in local church or elsewherin local church or elsewhere.

As for a going - out - of - business sale, the Post has editorially reminded the leaders that the churches are not theirs to squander in a spasm of guilt concocted to improve their public image.

Churches can use black theology to help people overcome oppressive images of the past and present — in some cases, paradoxically, white images that have been financed and constructed by blacks.

I am witness thru the power and anointing of the Holy Spirit of truth in seeing image of beast, his mark, and the number of his name in the people of churches on earth Revelation 15:2 - 3.

Glass added, «Strong images in the history of the church can be reinvented to be newly relevant.

The problem I've seen in the church, is this politically correct washing of Christ's image to present, not a biblical picture, but an image that is politically correct, with anything offensive and unpopular removed.