Sentences with phrase «johannine sectarianism»

For a region craving stability, instability in Saudi Arabia threatens to further exacerbate regional conflicts, fueling sectarianism that could raise the terrorist threat.

there was some «sectarianism» even in the early church.

They object that such an Islamic state would reduce the non - Muslims to a secondary position in the society and would introduce sectarianism in the body politic.

This is so with the sectarianism of our time.

* worship God, who has never been, at any time for any reason, a capricious God of death, war, murder, destruction, violence, abuse, vengeance, hate, fear, lies, slavery, systemic injustice, oppression, conditional acceptance, exclusion, segregation, discrimination, shunning, ostracism, eternal condemnation, eternal punishment, retribution, sacrifices, patriarchy, matriarchy, empire, nationalism, only one culture, only one race or portion of the population, parochialism, sectarianism, dogma, creeds, pledges, oaths or censorship — and who has never behaved as a Greco - Roman or narcissistic deity.

«Heterosexism» is recognised as another social evil, more akin to «sectarianism» as it is understood by the Executive.

Augustine's victory over the Donatists has often been characterized as a victory of objectivity and catholicity over subjectivity and sectarianism, a victory, to borrow Ernst Troeltsch's categories, of church over sect.

Consider our sectarianism, for example.

He does not withdraw from it by ending diplomatic engagements: that would be sectarianism.

Fourthly, mission is a task of celebration of life, without sectarianism, without exclusions, affirming and sharing its richness.

Missionary appeals are losing their power through our sectarianism, being resented by the natives among whom missionaries work and, at home, falling upon the indifferent ears of a denominational church.

Out of this confusion has come sectarianism, which is the affirmation by one particular communion that it is right and all the others are wrong.

Both traditions began to reach beyond an earlier sectarianism just as the post-World War II «postfundamentalist evangelical» coalition was beginning to emerge.

At Vanderbilt as elsewhere, «sectarianism» and «denominationalism» were invariably negative terms, suggestive of exclusive access, censorship, and obstructive ecclesiastical overlords.

Smith urges Christian churches to assume their prophetic role with dignity and humility so that they can affirm their theological principles, put aside sectarianism, and live in the gospel.

The sociologist of religion must beware of falling into the same error in overemphasizing random phenomena (eccentric forms of sectarianism, etc.) The historical beginnings of religious and sectarian communities, however, are important fields for investigation of the mediums through which religious experience finds expression.

He suggests how to move beyond legalism and libertinism (chapter 10), how to move beyond sectarianism (chapter 13), and even (this truly would be a miracle!)

The time has come to set aside our sectarianism and live out the Gospel.

His America is a land ridden with sectarianism and obscurantism, a place of «sheer madness,» «capriciousness,» and «total arbitrariness.»

We had come through a terrible depression and a World War and understood the value of solidarity in the Christian family beyond sectarianism.

By sectarianism I do not mean denominationalism but the «Small Sects,» as Elmer T. Clark has called them.

People in droves are finding the emotional charge is better supplied intravelling the whole journey, from Catholicism into sectarianism.

Jim was disturbed to see the emasculation of this tradition, particularly by virulent secularists who promoted a new form of sectarianism and anti-Catholic attitudes.

However, from my perspective, it is not his pacifism that makes Hauerwas vulnerable to charges of fideism and sectarianism.

When we go beyond that simple, straightforward statement, we get into division / sectarianism.

But, it does seem to me that the sectarianism and divisiveness we see in the «Christian» world does little to advance the kingdom of God and gives ample fodder for critics to feed on and use against us.

On the contrary, it has been precisely those forms of religion believed in one way or another to be antithetical to a secular world, and so vulnerable to «the acids of modernity,» that have sprouted up everywhere and have grown at an astounding rate; namely, fundamentalist religion of every variety; ecstatic, charismatic religion; esoteric, cultic religion; mystical, otherworldly religion; religious sectarianism that «opts out» of society, its customs and its responsibilities — not to mention every possible variety of the occult.

There were two impulses in sectarianism:» (a) the impulse towards the perfection of individual life expressed in the pietistic sects and (b) the impulse towards the fulfillment of history expressed particularly in the Anabaptist and socially radical sects.

A sectarian church could not mend the sectarianism of society.

Augustine's writings against the Donatists and Pelagians helped to cement in the West a vision of the Church in which sinners in need of ongoing repair are welcomed, and the trajectories of Augustinian ecclesiology continue to challenge all forms of sectarianism....

They may not be as conscious of the Church as they are of its objectives, yet when they serve the latter they participate in the life of the whole Church and are moved out of the confines of sectarianism.

This sectarianism is an attempt to leap away from the narrow path of the paradox and become a tragic hero at a cheap price.

What some have taken as a universal characteristic of sectarianism, therefore, was contingent on a very particular set of historical circumstances.

One topic that I believe can be greatly facilitated by understanding it in a larger context is the question of sectarianism.

Sectarianism, in this sense, has been reduced by efforts to create organizations aimed at better meeting the challenges of world society.

It appears that sectarianism was at least modestly encouraged by this shifting of the gears in the world economy.

Formally, the resulting organizations meet the definition of sectarianism, although for present purposes their actual conformity in substance to the definition of sect is unimportant.

Fundamentalism has brought the term «Christian» into disrepute by denying the catholicity or universality of Christianity and narrowing it down to a rigid sectarianism.

Subsequently the Protestant denominations splintered even further, so that catholicity came to be replaced by sectarianism.

The effect of denominational size, we know from other research, can be linked in turn to the effect of immigration to the United States, to competition among denominations and between Protestants and Catholics for members, and to the so - called «baby boom» that followed World War IL In other words, in the United States, sectarianism has been associated with demographic expansion in the world system, just as it appears to have been in Europe in earlier centuries.

Given different dynamics in the larger world economy, quite different patterns of sectarianism might be expected.

As is the way with sectarianism.

It is all very well to denounce such theologians as Stanley Hauerwas for «sectarianism,» but they have much the right of it against their critics.»

In the face of a secularism that is indifferent to Catholic inclusive triumphalism, the Church must avoid retreating into an epistemological and cultural sectarianism that announces Christ's fulfillment of all things without venturing into the failures of our time to show, with ambition and creative élan, inklings of that fulfillment already present.

There is no basis in Christian teaching for a narrow - minded sectarianism which holds that there is only one access to the mystery out of which the world exists.

The power of the various dynasties in this period was based on the command of a war band, the support of a tribal or national sense of solidarity, or religious sectarianism.

The religion of the Qumran people was characterized by some of the most exclusive sectarianism the world has ever seen, an apocalyptic - eschatological sectarianism which looked for triumph in this world, and soon.

Sectarianism makes an idol of a particular religious group.

Yes, there is a lamentable lack of «historical,» not to say philosophical and intellectual, rootedness in premillenialism and in other manifestations of sectarianism.

[6] Bryan Wilson has correctly noted that the doctrine of sanctification provides the basis for sectarianism and for the enthusiastic propagation of this religious group that throws itself into spiritual conquest and tries to liberate sinful hearts from the clutch of Satan and guide the sinful to the path of holiness.