Sentences with phrase «protestant episcopal»

In 1987, the last year for which these figures are available, the continuum ranged from revenues of $ 15,727 and expenditures of $ 14,501 per student in schools affiliated with the Protestant Episcopal Church to revenues of $ 3,950 and expenditures of $ 3,536 per student in schools affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.

10 Journal of the Proceedings of the 55th Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of New York, 1839, 31, 33, 4344, this was Bishop B. T. Onderdonk whose predecessor, the High Churchman John Henry Hobart, had promoted the arrangement of churches with the pulpit behind the Holy Table, as at least making the altar visible — it is occasionally found in the eighteenth century, as in the Wesley Chapel at Bristol or Bishop Seabury's church at New London, built in 1784 - 86 (Robert A. Haliam, Annals of St. James's Church [New London, 1873], 89 - 90).

Money has gradually declined in value since then; the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church, founded in 1820, in its early days thought of $ 500 as a generous salary for a domestic missionary, and the first American bishop to be supported wholly by his diocese (the Bishop of New York in the 1830's) received $ 2500.

[The reader may find additional material by or about Samuel Shoemaker, Jr., at: (1) the Maryland Historical Society, Manuscripts Division, under «Shoemaker Papers;» (2) the Princeton University Archives at Princeton University, Olden Lane, Princeton, New Jersey, in the Samuel Shoemaker alumnus file; (3) the Episcopal Church Archives in Austin, Texas; (4) the Library of Congress, in the Ray Foote Purdy files of the Moral ReArmament (and Oxford Group) Archives; (5) the Maryland Diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Church; (6) the Stepping Stones Archives, Bedford Hills, New York, the Shoemaker - Wilson letters; (7) the Hartford Theological Seminary Archives, Hartford, Connecticut; and (8) the parish offices of Calvary / St.

Meanwhile, contention and disagreement grew within the Protestant Episcopal Church as well.

In the latter part of the nineteenth century the Protestant Episcopal, Lutheran, and Methodist denominations in particular called upon women in comparatively large numbers to serve as deaconesses.

What is really guaranteed is the Church as the eternal Body of Christ, not the Church as organized under the name of «Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America» or any other name.

(The following statements are somewhat characteristic of such schools: Bethany Theological Seminary affirms that its object is «to promote the spread and deepen the influence of Christianity by the thorough training of men and women for the various forms of Christian service, in harmony with the principles and practices of the Church of the Brethren»; Augustana Theological Seminary «prepares students for the ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church with the special needs of the Augustana Church in view»; the charter of Berkeley Divinity School begins, «Whereas sundry inhabitants of this state of the denomination of Christians called the Protestant Episcopal Church have represented by their petition addressed to the General Assembly, that great advantages would accrue to said Church, and they hope and believe to the interests of religion and morals in general, by the incorporation of a Divinity School for the training and instructions of students for the sacred ministry in the Church aforementioned.»)

Walter Taylor Sumner, dean of the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Chicago from 1906 to 1915, instituted in 1912 his own system of inspection for prospective couples to ensure that they were «normal physically and mentally.»

The team was composed of the most respected biblical scholars in the US and Europe, including Dr. John W. Bailey, Professor Emeritus, New Testament, Berkley Baptist Divinity School, Dr Albert E. Barnett, Professor Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Dr. Walter Russell Bowel, Professor, The Protestant Episcopal Seminary, Virginia, Dr. John Bright, Professor, Union Seminary and many others.

The Lausanne conference had two main roots — one in the World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh in the spring of 1910, which revealed how widely on the foreign missionary fields the spirit of federation and unity was operating, and the other in the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the fall of 1910, which called for a commission on a world conference on Faith and Order, having to do with the whole church, at home and abroad.

The Protestant Episcopal Church organized an interdenominational commission, which made approaches practically to the whole church.

At the Edinburgh conference in 1910, Bishop Charles H. Brent of the Protestant Episcopal Church had keenly felt the need for a full discussion of theological beliefs in order that the Churches might find the proper mutual support in the modern world.

U.S. President Barack Obama shakes the hand of Reverend Luis León while leaving St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church with first lady Michelle Obama and their daughters.

The Protestant Episcopal Church of America then raised a general call to all Churches «which accept Jesus Christ as God and Saviour to join in conference following the general method of the World's Missionary Conference, for the consideration of all questions pertaining to the Faith and Order of the Church of Christ.»

Not exact matches

The adversaries of Humanae Vitae also could not have foreseen one important historical development that in retrospect would appear to undermine their demands that the Catholic Church change with the times: the widespread Protestant collapse, particularly the continuing implosion of the Episcopal Church and the other branches of Anglicanism.

The Episcopal Church describes itself as protestant.

The theological tendencies of such people run the gamut, from the likes of retired Episcopal Bishop John Spong, who rejects Christian orthodoxy root and branch, to certain types of conservative Protestants, who claim «no creed but the Bible.»

Following on missives from Catholics to House Speaker John Boehner, from Catholics and evangelicals to Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to Congress as a whole, Protestant leaders such as the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Katharine Jefferts Schori, are advancing the argument that the GOP budget is an immoral document.

Was the Episcopal Church Catholic or Protestant?

Choosing to contrast Roman Catholicism principally with the Protestant tradition in which he was raised, he would have strengthened his argument by also addressing why he found inadequate the Episcopal church in which he spent most of his adult life.

Most mainline Protestant churches in Puerto Rico, with the exception of the recently autonomous Puerto Rican Episcopal Church, are institutionally attached to their parent bodies, functioning as if Puerto Rico were already a state.

Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Centre of Reform Judaism, also testified, as did the National Council of Churches, the Episcopal Church and a group of evangelical Protestants who signed a statement warning against global warming.

Now, I've never been to a church service — evangelical, Protestant, Episcopal, or otherwise — that didn't stipulate certain requirements for participating in communion.

Only one other mainline Protestant denomination, the Episcopal Church, has elected openly gay and lesbian bishops.

As you may have noticed, a flurry of articles and blog posts have materialized in the wake of the Episcopal Church USA General Convention, many asserting that the Episcopal Church's declining numbers, and those of other Mainline Protestant churches, are direct result of their progressive policies.

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For Catholics during this period, the church had seemed a more formidable adversary to intellectual prowess than local clergy of the Protestant churches — congregational, presbyterial, or episcopal — had seemed to their coreligionists a century earlier.

A lifelong Protestant — at various times attending Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodist churches and eventually an Episcopal church — I associated fasting with rigid control of the body, with extreme forms of self - discipline, with a denial of the flesh that I could not quite understand.

At every protestant church I've ever worshiped at, it is made clear that it's not Presbyterian / Protestant / Episcopal table but the Lord's table and any believer who has be baptized is welcome to partake — but at mass, it's made clear that only Catholics arprotestant church I've ever worshiped at, it is made clear that it's not Presbyterian / Protestant / Episcopal table but the Lord's table and any believer who has be baptized is welcome to partake — but at mass, it's made clear that only Catholics arProtestant / Episcopal table but the Lord's table and any believer who has be baptized is welcome to partake — but at mass, it's made clear that only Catholics are welcome.

Anglicans drew together in the (Protestant) Episcopal church.

Members of «mainstream» Protestant churches — from Episcopal to Methodist and Presbyterian — are much less inclined to share this view.

Generally, the Tories were associated with lesser gentry and the Church of England (and in Scotland the Episcopal Church), while Whigs were more associated with trade, money, larger land holders (or «land magnates») and the Nonconformist Protestant churches.

The Catholic faith has two different versions, and for Protestants there are separate examples from each denomination, including Episcopal, Methodist, Presbyterian and Lutheran versions of the traditional wedding vows.