Sentences with phrase «states establishing churches»

Being a bigger admirer of Jesus, however, Bridget lives just as He would have her - traveling the United States establishing churches.

Not exact matches

The question is whether churches abroad, such as in the United States, Western Europe, and Australasia — comprised of Orthodox immigrants and converts long established in their new homelands, miles away and cultures apart from the «mother Churches, where they originated — have reached the maturity or acquired the single - mindedness and commitment to minister to their people and manage their affairs ichurches abroad, such as in the United States, Western Europe, and Australasia — comprised of Orthodox immigrants and converts long established in their new homelands, miles away and cultures apart from the «mother Churches, where they originated — have reached the maturity or acquired the single - mindedness and commitment to minister to their people and manage their affairs iChurches, where they originated — have reached the maturity or acquired the single - mindedness and commitment to minister to their people and manage their affairs in unity.

Because this feuding annoyed our key founders so greatly, they made it a top priority to establish the separation of church and state (and to make it Amendment # 1 of our Constitution).

«Given the benchmarks established by international law and universal legitimacy, and in light of the support offered by the Christian Church in the Holy Land, we believe Palestinians should also have a state that they can at long last call home.

So that we may accomplish this task, God has established three estates, in which all people exist and find their roles: state, church, and family.

He also came to oppose the long - established practice of employing chaplains at public expense in the House of Representatives and Senate on the grounds that it violated the separation of church and state and the principles of religious freedom **.

again there isnothing that is saying joining of church and state in praying during a metting... for it does not ESTABLISH that you have to believe in what they say..

Even as the absence of a feudal order and established church have shaped American institutions and political habits, the dialectic of a feudal order and established churches and of secularist rejection of religion has structured European attitudes toward the United States, particularly toward the American experiment in religious freedom and toward the seemingly unabating religious vitality that this system has produced.

He finds fault with «religious interpretation» in that it establishes priests and theologians as the guardians and rulers of the people of the church, and thus creates in thema state of dependence.

Maybe I will take an established church here in the States, or around the world.

In the United States the Federal Council of Churches» office to help non-Aryan Christians, established in the early 1930s, was more generously funded by the United Jewish Appeal than by member cChurches» office to help non-Aryan Christians, established in the early 1930s, was more generously funded by the United Jewish Appeal than by member churcheschurches.

We question how policy is being made when the established separation of church and state is only loosely upheld.

This hypothesis would explain why he so strongly establishes separation of church and state in his policy.

However, faith aside, separation of church and state was established for a reason.

On the state level, specific exemptions from property taxes for churches were established in Virginia in 1777, New York in 1799, and the city of Washington in 1802.

Here, I could understand how you might be describing the West as having «excommunicated Christ» in that Western thought has ideas like separation of Church and State and many tend to believe that government should not be informed by «the Church», thus leaving the working paradigm you establish.

While I agree that we need separation of church and state... It is a stretch to say that our politicians are establishing a theocracy... on the other hand, you are turning a bling eye to the billions of dollars that have gone into hospitals, universities, feed the hunger programs... All funded by people of faith.

After forty years of persecutions, the Church was in a markedly weak state when it faced the mountain of new tasks in the new society, and it was not able to establish its priorities and take advantage of its new possibilities.

As a result of the revivals a large number of churches were founded outside the officially recognized State - established congregations.

Massachusetts and others among the founding thirteen states, while protecting the full religious liberty of citizens under their new constitutions after Independence, maintained an established church and entrusted important moral and educational tasks to church communities with state support, direct or indirect.

The freedom of religion clause in the first amendment was to keep the government from establishing a state religion that all must be party to like it was in England (hince the Church of England) not to keep prayer out of anything the government has it's hands in.

The church has established temples in several countries in Europe, Africa and North America, including the United States.

An established church may be the immediate context in which a religious movement appears, and it may be the focus of the movement's ideology, but this institution is in turn likely to depend on the state and the economic hierarchy for support.

While the American Republic had no established church, the American state took a positive and benign attitude toward the full, free, and quite visibly public exercise of religion, not least at major state functions and national celebrations.

Harriet Martineau was a convinced Anglican who, coming to the United States in 1834 for a two - year period, compared the religious situation in America with what she perceived to be the «established» position of the church back home in England: «It appears to me that the one thing in which the clergy of every kind are fatally deficient is faith: that faith which would lead them, first, to appropriate all truth, fearlessly and unconditionally; and then to give it as freely as they have received it....

Where a church has a particular link with the state or is «established», as is the case with the Church of England, this may be a cause of discriminchurch has a particular link with the state or is «established», as is the case with the Church of England, this may be a cause of discriminChurch of England, this may be a cause of discrimination.

The founding fathers did intend that the state would not establish a church — they never came up with rules disqualifying people from voting based on their religion.

You still didn't state anything in regards to John Wesley or Mary Baker Eddy, and you still didn't address the issue of if someone wanted to start up their own christian church, so why would have to have a community established beforehand in order for that church to be a christian church?

The only movement there should be is the «separation of church and state movement» — why is the idea of «God» so pervasive when the government is not supposed to establish a religion?

Whether such freedom can exist in a state where any church is «established» is debatable, taking human experience as a whole.

Calvin established a theocracy in Geneva in which the Church dominated the State, though not without a long struggle to establish this control, and this temporarily resolved the tension between the two.

«Amnesty has written to the Secretary of State to ask her establish a public inquiry into the state and church response to clerical child abuse in Northern IreState to ask her establish a public inquiry into the state and church response to clerical child abuse in Northern Irestate and church response to clerical child abuse in Northern Ireland.

Although several states had established churches, they were not theocracies but rather had Christianity as their foundation, and their laws and civil governments were based on biblical principles.

The separation of Church and state and the legal recognition of the principle of religious liberty in both nations have led not only to pluralism through the protection of established religious groups and the encouragement of spontaneity and inventiveness; but have also fostered voluntarism in church organization and made the clergy largely dependent on lay suChurch and state and the legal recognition of the principle of religious liberty in both nations have led not only to pluralism through the protection of established religious groups and the encouragement of spontaneity and inventiveness; but have also fostered voluntarism in church organization and made the clergy largely dependent on lay suchurch organization and made the clergy largely dependent on lay support.

He would also come to oppose the long - established practice of employing chaplains at public expense in the House of Representatives and Senate on the grounds that it violated the separation of church and state and the principles of religious freedom.

They nurtured a relative independence from the state that has been too quickly swallowed by the established church after reunification, and too quickly forgotten by theologians and ethicists elsewhere.

This alternative response is found primarily in various mainline denominational and interdenominational groups in the United States, and in some of the established churches in Western Europe.

It is fairly well established that predominent African - American churches are excused from the separation of church and state.

The what of Christian belief is an attempt to state all that is implied in the whom of Christian belief; and the history of the Christian Church may be read, at least in part, as the constant effort of succeeding generations of believers in Christ to think out and think through the full implications of the new relationship to God established in Christ and enjoyed in the fellowship of Christian believers in Him.

They have also established schools and made a significant contribution to the development of the educational system, although in several countries in recent years church schools have been taken over by the state.

Because this feuding between these sects annoyed our founders so greatly, they made it a top priority to establish the separation of church and state (and to make it Amendment # 1 of our Constitution).

It was a panel of unscrupulous church «fathers» who destroyed other books that were equally inspired by God but didn't agree with their favorites; who were inspired by God to stifle dissent by persecuting and even murdering those who disagreed with them, just as God in his wisdom inspired the infanticide and genocide described in the Old Testament; just as God inspired the Crusades and the Inquisition, just as God now inspires those currently working to establish a global Islamic state to eliminate their opponents.

It can not be compelled by the state or by an established church.

In that case Justice Rehnquist wrote that Alabama has the right to enforce government - sponsored prayer in public schools, and even to establish a state - sponsored church if it wants to — which questions the premise (based on the Fourteenth Amendment) that constitutional prohibitions on infringement of rights extend to the states.

These claims are always contested — even when they come from established state churches.

Pope John Paul was emphatic in teaching that» [t] he use of the infertile periods for conjugal union can be an abuse if the couple, for unworthy reasons, seeks in this way to avoid having children, thus lowering the number of births in their family below the morally correct level.This morally correct level must be established by taking into account not only the good of one's own family, and even the state of health and the means of the couple themselves, but also the good of the society to which they belong, of the Church, and even of the whole of mankind.

As Christendom dissolved and the modern nation - state began to claim a monopoly on legitimate authority, the Church worked to disentangle herself and establish a sacred polity distinct from worldly authorities.

Let me state that It started by establishing that we Christians are the church — it's not a building — there are 400 + Christians denominations all claiming to be right & that one should join their particular church & get with their program.

G. S. Thompson, «The Effect of the Use of Mass Media to Establish a Local Church: A Study of the Pilot Church Project of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Tallahassee, Florida,» Ph.D. dissertation, Florida State University.

George S. Thompson, «The Effect of the Use of Mass Media to Establish a Local Church: A Study of the Pilot Church Project of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Tallahassee, Florida» Ph.D. dissertation, Florida State University, 1975, pp. 141 - 44.