Sentences with phrase «accept ordination»
The reluctance of many churches and church bodies to accept ordination of women is a case in point.
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Huang Bingzhang was ordained as Bishop of the Diocese of Shantou in southeast China on Thursday, the Vatican said, although Rome had asked him «on numerous occasions not to accept episcopal ordination.»
It affirmed that the ministry is a gift of God through Christ to his church, and is essential to the being and well - being of the church, that men gifted for the work of the ministry, called by the Spirit and accepted by the church, are commissioned through an act of ordination by prayer and the laying on of hands.
The health of Mansfield, of England, depends on which path is chosen, on whether the next generation chooses to be «actors» or to accept «ordination.»
It is God's ordination that those of humble, teachable, honest hearts, seeking the truth and life, shall come to life when it is offered, and such accepted the gospel on this occasion.
The former nurse acknowledged the division in the diocese of London over the ordination of female priests, and said she is «very respectful of those who can not accept my role as a priest or bishop».
Accepting Greenberg's thesis might suggest that the new tolerance of these churches, especially the move toward the ordination of homosexuals, is one more way modern societies help create, not just liberate, individuals with gay and lesbian identities.
Feminine theology calls for an end to all authoritarian models of truth — including the model of the ordained minister or priest, for «ordination» means accepting the authority of the traditional Christian framework and being licensed to carry on that tradition.
They more or less fit the description «postliberal» in that they accept such mainline practices as historical criticism and women's ordination while wanting the church to exhibit more robust dogmatic commitments.