Sentences with phrase «protestant mainline denominations»

The task is being carried out by four working groups, representing the Protestant mainline denominations, evangelicals, Roman Catholics and the university - related divinity schools.

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Like all mainline Protestant denominations, United Methodism finds itself challenged on its traditional position on sexual morality by the emergence of the conscientious conviction that gay and lesbian relationships are a legitimate expression of God's good and diverse creation.

The secularization of the churches hollowed out mainline Protestant denominations, but it did not end the American thirst for genuine contact with God.

I know of no mainline protestant denominations (or individuals) that teach the only way to God is through the church.

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

Many mainline Protestant denominations also have embraced the tradition in recent years.Whether one does or does not makes no difference at all.

In Searching for Sunday I feature several unusual church plants that are thriving in their communities, and many are associated with mainline Protestant denominations that were willing to take a risk on unconventional models.

In what is becoming something of a pig pile on the GOP from the Christian Left, more than two dozen bishops from mainline Protestant denominations sent a letter to Congress today denouncing proposed Republican budget cuts as «morally indefensible.»

Broadly speaking, it's more true for the mainline Protestant denominations and less true for fundamentalist congregations.

Furthermore, White Mainline Protestants and Black Protestants were considerably less likely than other denominations to hear about either religious liberty, abortion, or homosexuality.

For Douthat, however, our present identity as a «nation of heretics» marks a departure from earlier periods, in particular the post «World War II era of America's Greatest Generation, when Roman Catholic orthodoxy and the mainline Protestant denominations ruled the culture in ways that were truly Christian and faithful.

The UCC became the first mainline Protestant denomination to officially support same - sex marriage in 2005.

Naming abortion a sui generis conflict of life with life, most mainline Protestant denominations have affirmed that abortion should be rare but also legal.

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.

It's exactly what happened to mainline protestant denominations in the U.S., and to Church of England and Catholicism in Europe.

Different Christian denominations were at home in each party as well: Catholics and Southern Baptists supported the Democrats, and northern mainline and evangelical Protestants the Republicans.

In many mainline Protestant denominations, if the next generation does not find a way of establishing consensus, it may be necessary to draw dividing lines.

Over the next dozen years, the charismatic movement stirred controversy in virtually all mainline and traditional Protestant denominations.

Remnant charismatic groups in mainline Protestant circles persist, sometimes identifying with socially conservative renewal groups that oppose progressive leaders in mainline denominations, attacking their liberal social stances.

The study of MTS, if it represents what is happening in comparable institutions, illustrates why the mainline Protestant denominations are experiencing such turmoil and fragmentation.

Those whose parents and grandparents were mainline Protestants aren't carrying on the family tradition like those who align with other Protestant denominations.

Also, mainline denominations needs to become aware of the phenomenon of church planting among Protestants.

Mainline Protestant denominations, independent charismatic churches, and parts of the Roman Catholic Church comprise this Charismatic movement that emerged in the 1960's.

As far as I know, President Obama is still a member of the United Church of Christ — a progressive, mostly white, mainline Protestant Christian denomination with a rich American history that includes, among many others, the Pilgrims and Congregationalists of New England and many African - American churches, schools and colleges established in the south after the Civil War.

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

Nominal Christians make up a higher percentage of Mainline Protestants and Catholics than any other denomination of Christian, and this is why their numbers continue to sharply decline.

I am a chaplain in a mainline protestant denomination if you're wondering, and will share with you that many Christians do not believe in condemning or judging others for their beliefs however different they may be from our own.

In the 1960s and 1970s, many mainline Protestant denominations discovered the «Second Wave» Pentecostal movement, with its emphasis on personal interaction with God.

The bit of revisionist history (summarized by Scott McLemee) concerning the decline of mainline denominations in the U.S. that David Hollinger offers will, I suspect, not be overly surprising to those of us who have actually experienced the seemingly chronic inability of many mainline Protestant....

Clearly, we must not take for granted that the Western notion of «civil society,» as it developed largely in Britain and America from the seventeenth century onward with the close collaboration of the forebears of today's «mainline «protestant denominations, has answers for a contemporary global society.

Ecumenically, it's now the UMC that's in an awkward spot — with all other mainline Protestant denominations removing their denomination - wide prohibitions against LGBT persons.

National churches like the Church of England and other mainline Protestant denominations are losing ground in a world where nationality and culture are becoming increasingly flexible in the lives of most people.

While the majority of the (now disbanded) PP study group are members of Episcopalian, Lutheran, Methodist and Presbyterian churches, they believe that the future of the kind of ecumenism that originated from these and other mainline Protestant denominations now lies outside of them.

Since the mid-1960s, the mainline Protestant denominations have declined in membership, numbers of churches and church attendance.

Why is a century that started out so promising for our then mainline Protestant denominations ending with our being sidelined?

A minister of a mainline Protestant denomination, newly hired as a chaplain of a denominational college, met with a committee of the regional judicatory within whose bounds he would be working.

Don Browning, director of the Religion, Culture and Family Project at the University of Chicago Divinity School, has observed that in the 1970s and»80s most mainline Protestant denominations severely cut back their funding of family ministries programs while continuing to fund government lobbying efforts.

The Protestant world spans from one end of the spectrum, the mainline denominations, over to the other end, with independent fundamentalist denominations.

Compared with the views of current pastors in three mainline Protestant denominations (PCUSA, ELCA and United Methodist), the ex-pastors were not especially unhappy about living arrangements, salaries and benefits, spiritual life and relations with other clergy.

MAINLINE PROTESTANTS: Meanwhile, many other protestant denominations have made serious commitments to combating climate change, and the United Church of Christ leads the way.