Sentences with phrase «protestant church bodies»

Like most recent statements from Protestant church bodies, it attests to the seriousness with which such Christians still take the marital bond, which continues to be understood as the most appropriate context for sexual relations.

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The largest body, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), generally looks and acts like any other mainline Protestant denomination.

Carlyle was adamantly Protestant and thought that the church as an invisible reality was a critical counterpart to a natural supernaturalism that informed the body politic.

This is an extension of the efforts to remove older anathemas except that most second and third generation Protestant churches have never formally condemned any historic ecclesial body.

Once the theologian could speak of the church as a truly human communal and social body, and perhaps the Catholic theologian can still do so, but I see no way by which the Protestant theologian at this time can speak both honestly and positively about the church.

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.

A pulling away on the left by large segments of the evangelical world would likely result in a merging of those segments with a conservative Protestant mainstream in a way that would have a major impact on the shape and internal politics of a number of church bodies.

One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.

the Protestant answers: the body of believers, the church.

Despite the practical resistance to the civil rights struggle on the part of numerous Protestant congregations, especially in the South, most national and regional church bodies were supportive of the extension of equal rights in this way.

However, the constitution of the major Catholic, Protestant, and sectarian Christian Churches, of the Jewish, Islamic and Parsi bodies, of the Buddhist and Jaina Samghas, and of Confucianism, are in each case the result of complex historical developments.

Evangelical Protestant, Orthodox, Roman Catholic and mainline Protestant churches appear to confront unique situations, though perhaps the greatest crisis is being experienced among the mainline bodies (my own tradition).

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.

Six years later, as numerous editorials and articles indicate, the Methodist Church — then the largest Protestant body in the nation, with heavy southern concentration — was still struggling to resolve its own institutional segregation.

A small number of national churches and synagogues maintain special aging offices, with staffs and budgets, and some of these Orthodox, Jewish, Protestant and Catholic bodies are members of the National Interfaith Coalition on Aging.

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.

An increasing number of official church bodies, both Roman Catholic and Protestant, have made public statements of their remorse about Christian mistreatment of Jews and Judaism.

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Many protestant churches are now realizing (and have for some time) that this is an integral part of discipleship of their corporate body through one - on - one meetings.

This included the Baptists, Lutherans, Reformed, «the Protestant Methodist church,» and «the whole body of the New England Puritans» as well as the Presbyterian churches.77

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After completing his studies of Social Work and Social Sciences at the Lutheran University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg, he was employed as a social worker by the Protestant church community in his hometown.He trained as a psychotherapist in Switzerland focusing on body therapy.