Sentences with phrase «synod which»

The most important decision of the Synod which had a very far reaching effect on the life of the church, was to declare the bishop of Seleucia - Ctesiphon as the primate of the Persian church; and in recognition of this preeminence he was given the title «Catholicos».

Not exact matches

In the event, however, all it produced was permanent exile — with Seminex finally being absorbed into various seminaries of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (formed in 1988 through merger of the other large Lutheran bodies in this country), from which the Missouri Synod is more and more estranged.

The measures are part of an overhaul of canon law regarding how church leaders dress which is set for the upcoming General Synod meeting later this week.

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

No book better dissects the issues - beneath - the - issues at these Synods than this brilliant analysis of the sexual revolution, i.e., «the destigmatization and demystification of nonmarital sex and the reduction of sexual relations in general to a kind of hygienic recreation in which anything goes so long as those involved are consenting adults.»

Evangelii gaudium, which followed a 2012 Synod of Bishops meeting on «The New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith,» has long been seen as a sweeping statement of Francis's agenda.

The Times reports details of the abuse complaints will be given to the General Synod, which began its three - day meeting in London on Thursday.

The Church of England carried on discussions over sexuality at its General Synod (when is it not talking about sexuality) but it was its advice to its schools which hit the front pages that encouraged teachers to let pupils cross dress.

It maintains cordial relations and some measure of cooperation with the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, which nobody would place in the mainline....

The ensuing battle over the established Lutheran churches resulted in the Saxon Migration to America, which gave rise to my own church, the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod.

George Weigel makes this as one of the key ideas which the recent Synod on the family has thrown up for resolution.

And this, I might add parenthetically, was the issue beneath the issues at the synods of 2014 and 2015: the obedience of the Church to divine revelation, in which we find the Church's constitutive «form.»

In practice the Government played the role of a presbytery or a synod in administering rebukes and discipline, which the clergy decided was necessary against such people as Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, or Robert Child.

The fact was that the synod did not produce merely advice; it produced a confession of faith which included even the form of Church government.

The recent Synod on the New Evangelisation proposed to us: «This faith can not be transmitted in a life which is not modelled after the Gospel or a life which does not find its meaning, truth and future based on the Gospel» (57).

This time, the Synod has made no provision for a fudge which would satisfy the Anglo - Catholics, who last time were given «fying bishops» — a provision enabling them to erect a church within a church.

Bishop Eduardo Horacio Garcia, who was Cardinal Bergoglio's auxiliary bishop in Buenos Aires, recounted shortly after Pope Francis's election that «at the end of the Jubilee Year, for which Cardinal Bergoglio had called a missionary year, we priests of the archdiocese asked Cardinal Bergoglio to call a synod in order to discuss how to harvest the fruits of our mission and draft guidelines.

During the Synod, the bishops gave particular attention to the difficulties in which numerous families in many nations found themselves because of institutions and laws which did not help people to know the inviolable rights of the family, or even threatened these rights.

The Synod's task, then, will be to offer pastoral solutions to those suffering from loneliness, or from broken hearts and homes — solutions that illuminate rather than obscure the values to which their hardship gives radiant, poignant witness.

Archbishop Rino Fisichella is the president for the Council for Promoting the New Evangelisation, which Benedict XVI established in 2011, and was thus a key participant in the Synod on the same subject in October 2012.

In this regard the Lineamenti, or outline notes, for the forthcoming Synod of Bishops on the theme of the New Evangelisation affirm that Our Lord «will give his Spirit and provide the force to announce and proclaim the Gospel in new ways which can speak to today's cultures».

The project is part of the Church's renewal and reform programme which aims to build on the three goals - set by General Synod in 2010 - to address some of the deep - rooted missional challenges facing the Church of England.

Conscious of his responsibilities to the Church throughout the world, he made extensive use of the episcopal conferences mandated by Vatican II and of the Synod of Bishops which he himself had established during the Council.

These actions produced a dissenting movement which ultimately became the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches, formed in 1976 from five synods within the Missouri Synod tradition.

Tietjen's memoirs serve as an important reminder that no American denomination is immune to the forces of conflict, paranoia and abuse which prevailed in the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod.

The General Synod heard the ban was widely ignored which prompted calls for the Church law to be updated.

Two months later, to Tietjen's surprise, Jacob A. O. Preus was elected president of the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, the denomination which controlled Concordia Seminary.

Tietjen's memoirs provide insights into the Missouri Synod controversy which can inform our understanding of the nature of controversy and schism within the broader context of American Protestantism.

All the attention devoted to the first Roman Catholic Synod on the Family, which wraps up this week at the Vatican, is but one sign that the ties binding hearth and altar to one another can still be the subject of considerable concern.

Similarly, Lindsell's historical analysis has some validity for the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, which took theological shape in a confessional reaction to the 19th century emergence of the «Evangelical United Front» — a reaction grounded in Lutheran scholasticism just as the Princeton theology was grounded in Reformed scholasticism.

But this was contrary to the Old Side orthodox view, which stressed the strict adherence to a confession of faith and argued that the presbytery, and ultimately a synod, determines the fitness of a man for the ministry on the basis of his education and doctrinal beliefs, and an external call from a congregation.

The first action of the Synod was to draw up a «true apostolic and orthodox» confession of faith which repudiated both Monophysitism and Chalcedonian orthodoxy of the West.

It was in the Synod of AD 486 the church made an official decision which went against the radical ascetic tendency of the East and against the canon laws of the West.

Having said that, the following are suggestions which may be helpful to the Synod:

The bishops asked him to speak to their Spring General Assembly, held in New Orleans June 10 - 13, as part of a broader effort to prepare for the upcoming Synod on the Family, which takes place this fall in Rome, and the World Meeting of Families, which will take place in Philadelphia in 2015.

«The synod voted against conversion therapy, which purports to make gay people straight.

Apparently plenty, as Warren's speech — which he said he wrote from scratch the night before after yesterday's speakers covered his previously prepared main points — was «probably the first time ever the synod hall resembled a revivalist meeting,» tweeted David Quinn, an Irish Catholic columnist.

The theme of next year's phase of the Synod was announced 13 October, immediately after the reading of the Relatio Post-disceptationem, or mid-term report, which marked the end of the first half of this Synod.

Citing economic factors which sometimes contribute to the decision not to have children, the synod nonetheless states that «being open to life is an intrinsic requirement of married love.»

Earlier this year, the General Synod held discussions on a controversial report concerning sexuality which backed traditional marriage but also called for «maximum freedom» for homosexual people.

On the hotly debated question of Communion for divorced and remarried Catholics, the synod's report offers a solution of the «penitential path» or a period of reflection and penance which would allow the partners in a second marriage to receive communion.

This latter is one of the means by which news from this synod of bishops is disseminated.

Did I simply imagine the uproar on the floor of the Synod on October 16, 2014, as bishop after bishop protested an interim report generated by Baldisseri and his colleague, Archbishop Bruno Forte, which did not reflect the discussions of the previous two weeks?

It represents the culmination of his 15 years of identification with the «religious socialist» movement in Germany, dating back to the time just after World War I when he was called on the carpet by the synodical consistory in Berlin to account for his appearance as a lecturer at a meeting of the Independent Social Democratic Party — a party which, from the synod's standpoint, had added to the injury of being socialist the insult of having been antiwar as well.

We need not recall here the history of what led up to the declaration of Humani Generis (which is doctrinal in character, even if it does not constitute a dogmatic definition), starting with the pronouncement of the local synod at Cologne in 1860 rejecting evolution in any form, the censure passed on the works of theologians favourable to evolution, such as M. D. Leroy (1895) and P. Zahm (1899), the decree of the Biblical Commission in 1909, the tacit toleration of works favourable to evolution by theologians such as Ruschkamp (1935), Messenger (1931), Perier (1938), down to Pius XII's Allocution to the Papal Academy of Sciences in 1941.

The unity of Latin America, counterbalancing the colossus of the North, was also a not - so - subliminal point at the Synod for America held in Rome at the end of 1997, on which I am now writing a book.

«It is not, therefore a matter of debating doctrinal questions,» said Archbishop Bruno Forte, who will be the special secretary for the synod, «which have in any case been clarified by the magisterium.»

The fact that there was considerable resistance to these views at the synod was in no way reflected in the first version of the «mid-term report» (entitled relatio post disceptationem), an effusion which bore all the hallmarks of an attempted PR coup (the word «coup» isn't over the top here: spin, in our time, is one pathway to the seizure of effective power).

Earlier this year, the GOP candidate withdrew her membership from Salem Lutheran Church, a church belonging to the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, which received media attention earlier this year for calling the papacy the Antichrist.

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