Sentences with phrase «protestant churches»

This teaching raises questions about the loyalties associated with «the family pew» in Protestant churches.

Protestant churches have acted similarly.

Protestant churches are a loose - knit collective by design, with various doctrinal splits.

Sergei Ryakhovsky, head of the Protestant Churches of Russia, and several other evangelical leaders called the law a violation of religious freedom and personal conscience in a letter to Putin posted on the Russian site Portal - Credo.

They asked 1,000 senior pastors of Protestant churches around the country if someone within their...

Sadly, only three percent of Protestant churches have said that they have accepted direct financial responsibility for a new church as its primary sponsor within the last year.

That is why a man must be chosen of God through revelation to represent him and to preach his holy word — a thing that protestant churches totally lack because they apostatized from the Catholic church and which the catholic church can not claim either because the first pope was a bishop, not an apostle, and to this day can claim no authority from living apostles.

These and other Protestant Churches looked on the Army as a mere sect.

But Tchividjian believes that Protestant churches, groups, and schools have been worse than Catholics in their response.

He soon resigned his position in some conflict, but the charismatic renewal was already taking hold in Mainline Protestant churches, and even found its way into the Roman Catholic Church.

Though the declaration is not an ecumenical document, it will undoubtedly shape Roman Catholic relations with world religions and with Protestant churches.

These features were attributed to «ethnic» groups; the dominant white Protestant churches considered themselves beyond ethnicity, responsive primarily to universal precepts and revelation.

I am suggesting that it is not the mission of Protestant churches to make America Christian, or even to transform American culture.

Many traditional Protestant churches in the late 1960s and early 1970s criticized charismatic beliefs as divisive and questioned whether the spiritual gifts described in the New Testament were identical to those practiced by contemporary Christians.

He pointed out that instead of the church having Christianized civilization, the Protestant churches in America had been domesticated.2

The fading of the mainline protestant churches over the past two generations has not been limited to the United States.

it seems the modern Protestant churches are more into marketing schemes, bigger is Better, We have God all figured out, lavish production & music via «American Idol» etc..

From 1960 to 2000 the membership of liberal Protestant churches, measured per 1000 Americans, had shrunk 49 %, Catholics had shrunk 5 %, while conservative Protestant churches had grown 158 % and the LDS Church had grown 122 %.

Bilateral theological dialogues were formed between these and Protestant churches to promote unity.

But this rather manipulative use of religious institutions scarcely applies to the Protestant churches since they are plainer and less exotic than other houses of worship and on the whole have minimal allure for the Western tourist.

Many church people feel that there are few essential differences between various Protestant churches, and they easily change denominations.

It kept tabs on the worsening circumstances of Germany's Protestant churches, and it commended the 6,000 pastors who dared to speak out against Hitler's creation of a state - controlled «German Church.»

Yet these young social liberals are not attending the dozens of theologically liberal old line Protestant churches in DC whose beautiful sanctuaries are typically half or more empty with disproportionately old congregants on Sunday morning.

Such preference for the word or concept accounts in large measure for the meager presence of imagery in Protestant churches today.

Church attendance was falling in any case, as part of a general process of secularisation, and support for protestant churches appears to have fallen, if anything, even more.

The violence has spilled over into Ukraine, where leaders of the Evangelical Protestant Churches of Ukraine said that pro-Russian Orthodox militants had subjected their members to «abduction, beating, torture, murder threats, and damage to houses of worship, seizure of religious buildings, and damage to health and private property of the clergy,» the Free Beacon reported.

Is it different from the «pastor's wife» role in Protestant churches?

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).

But they get the most attention because of the scandal, rightfully so, and because of the huge amounts of money involved because Catholic Church structure allows a diocese to be sued instead of just a local church as the protestant churches would be.

We should not forget the history of those who tried to revive the life of the imagination in America after life began to drain out of the Protestant Churches; how America virtually ignored a Thoreau, a Melville, and a Whitman during their lifetimes; how Poe was driven insane, Henry James into exile, and Hart Crane into suicide.

At the hub of a concerned effort among Protestant churches for revitalization is the struggle for a just peace among the nations, It is the false use of money that continues to make the nuclear arms race possible, now again under the new nuclear doctrine.

Mainline Protestant churches, Jewish synagogues, and LDS temples I've visited as guests are nearly 100 % white.

Out of the Early Church emerged the Byzantine Church, the Catholic Church and the Protestant Churches.

Things are as hushed up in your protestant churches is my point.

On the other hand, there seems to be more diversity at Evangelical Protestant churches I've visited and Roman Catholic churches at which I've worshiped.

Hmmm, I am well aware of several protestant churches that don; t allow women in the pullpit or to serves as ministers or pastors (Southern Baptiist), What about Cathoolics?

In the Protestant churches the appeal to divine revelation was focussed on the Bible alone.

In 1925 the Protestant churches were much more liberal, relative to the society around them, than they are today.

One, I believe, does no real honor to the Reformers or to the movement of Protestant churches ever since.

Not so with the Protestant Churches of the day.

The Handbook cites a legitimate exercise of religious freedom» a Bolivian Catholic newspaper's criticism of the doctrine and practice of charismatic Protestant churches» as an example of religious intolerance.

Clearly this dimension is far more important in Orthodox and Catholic churches with their elaborate services than it is to austere Protestant churches or to members of the Society of Friends (Quakers), who sit together mostly in silence.

But the fact remains that generations of youth were energized by what they experienced as a new vision of what it means to be a Christian, that the mainline Protestant churches formed ecumenical organizations to work together to implement the new vision, and that, finally, in the depression, many of their practical proposals for social reform were implemented.

Yet modern Protestant churches suffer but little from Aristotelian logic nowadays, and university faculties do not suffer at the hands of the likes of John Scotus Erigena, or even a Peter Abelard.

This group leveled its guns of controversy against Darwin, historical criticism, the liberalizing tendencies in the large Protestant Churches, and finally against their archenemy — the social gospel.

Protestant churches teach against the culture of prosperity all the time.

It holds that while the Catholic Church and the historic Protestant churches are empty, the Pentecostal churches grow because they satisfy the needs of the people.

By sharing her personal experience, Ofelia Ortega describes how Pentecostals have gradually approached the historic Protestant churches through the world ecumenical movement.

Can oldline Protestant churches be as unabashedly self - critical and daring about institutional failings as Mikhail Gorbachev is in his Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World?

Whatever the reasons for the uncertainty, there is evidence that a new idea of call is emerging among Protestant churches and is contributing its share to the emerging new concept of the ministry.