Sentences with phrase «synod came»
A young and vigorous new bishop of the Virginia Synod came onto the executive committee of the board.
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He told the newspaper «many members of synod have indicated that they do intend to come out of the Minster to speak to us on Sunday.»
Coming after the Extraordinary Synod on Marriage and the Family, and preceding this year's follow - up, it had a special appeal for many.
In 305, the Synod of Elvira in Spain demanded celibacy of bishops and other clergy, and this came to be the rule in the Western church.
«We do not know if at the end of the coming October synod, the process will end, or if the Pope will convoke a third synod.
An attempt to reconcile the two traditions was made at the Synod of Whitby in 664, but it was Theodore of Tarsus, who came to England as Archbishop in 668, who united the Christians in England and who was the first bishop whom all English Christians were willing to obey.
In response to the pervasive relativism in contemporary culture, and the form of relativism that is called religious syncretism in the dialogue between religions — a problem that came in for special attention at a recent Synod for Asia — CDF, with the Pope's express support, is reiterating the Church's faith that Jesus is, as he said of himself, the way, the truth, and the life.
However, it was only at the beginning of the fifth century, as a result of deliberations by a number of synods, that the re-organization of the Persian church came into effect.
When you try to explain that the church fathers came up with what was «cannon» based on a number of synods / councils etc, and that not all Christians have the same cannonical books in their Bible, some Christians really spaz out.
perplexing pope In «Between Two Synods» (January), George Weigel thoroughly summarizes the 2014 Extraordinary Synod on the Family and the issues at hand for the coming Ordinary Synod of 2015, except for one pressing question: Where is the Holy Father in all the controversy?
«The church on Anglesey has really come together as the Anglesey Synod to grasp the new ways of working in our Diocese and to discover what ministry and mission as nine Ministry Areas on the island really entails.
I know of a synod of a church body which, wishing to put the matter of financial support of the «program» of the church on a less obviously allocated basis than characterizes the property tax office of the municipality, came up with a «fresh» idea: each should give as the Lord had prospered him — the synod called it the «Grace system»!
Although formed in the more isolated atmosphere of Missouri Synod Lutheranism, Neuhaus came of age politically and intellectually as a participant in mainline Protestant — dominated organizations supporting civil rights and then opposing the Vietnam War.
A few asked if the event had something to do with Pope Francis's coming to the United States, or with the Synod on the Family.
BW, I was fortunate enough to come to faith in a Missouri Synod Lutheran Church that was slightly less fundamentalist than most as an ADULT from a relatively healthy unchurched family.
I came out of the institutional church (Missouri synod Lutheran) and am now in the Vineyard movement.
Others, led by the courageous Pastor Martin Neimüller (1892 - 1984), who opposed the new regime's interference in church affairs and discrimination against Christians of Jewish background, came together in the Confessional Synod or Church.
To meet the challenge a synod was held in Dort (or Dordrecht) in 1618 - 1619 to which delegates came not only from Reformed Churches in the Netherlands but also from Switzerland, Germany, and England.
Since at the 1977 General Synod a woman elder did well in the race for the vice-presidency (in the RCA the vice-president of General Synod is heir presumptive for the presidency the next year), it seems well within the realm of possibility that during the coming decade a woman (elder or minister) will be elected president of the General Synod, the highest office the church can bestow.
The best method I have come up with so far would be to plot the data excursions from the expected past 6558 day patterns, by looking at the 5 to 10 day long disruptions caused by the current 6558 day period heliocentric (or Synod) conjunctions, as the corrective algorithms to adjust the inner planet patterns for the effects of the outer planet modulations.