Sentences with phrase «accommodating of church»

Fascism was ultra-conservative; accommodating of Church, monarchy, elites, and other elements of the ancien régime; and mindful of social hierarchy (the classes or orders of the corpus).

Not exact matches

My country and my church have both already spent too much time, energy and money trying to accommodate these backward points of view when they are no longer even tolerable.

Although there have been variations through history in the exercise of that governance, and may be further variations in order to accommodate a fuller expression of Christian unity, Catholics believe that Christ has endowed the Church with a permanent apostolic structure and an infallible teaching office that will remain until the Kingdom is fully consummated.

What has happened is that some Protestant churches have accommodated charismatic beliefs about the gifts of the Spirit, praying in tongues, etc., into their worship and church life.

Non-Mormon churches offered their buildings to accommodate the needs of the displaced Latter - day Saints during the chapel's reconstruction.

Jesus didn't accommodate wrong perspectives in honor of church growth / attendance (John 6:66 - 67).

«Rather, I would suspect that it flows from a very anti-theological desire to accommodate the church to a culture of blurring gender distinctions and antagonism towards any form of male headship.»

The government should not be permitted to create incentives for religious practice or belief (like giving favored status to religious organizations, as compared to other nonprofits), to facilitate the religious practices of some at the expense of others (like offering vocal prayers in public schools), or to accommodate one religion but not others with similar needs or problems (like limiting draft exemptions to members of traditional «peace churches») Within these guidelines, religious accommodations are fully in keeping with the First Amendment — albeit in conflict with strict separation.

I watched the tension flee from their faces as I described what amounted to the least common denominator of church involvement — the kind of behavior in God's people to which I had accommodated myself years earlier.

If you want to complain about Catholics, there are plenty of modern «Christian» churches that will be happy to accommodate you.

A money, power and control obsessed Church, or a collection of people who've rejected the word of God to accommodate sin?

Which yields the sad irony that the more the Catholic Church strives to accommodate Orthodox concerns, the more disposed many Orthodox are to see in this merely the advance embassy of an omnivorous ecclesial empire.

Historically the church has never been able to accommodate itself to a mass movement without surrendering much of its identity, and our history since World War II has given us yet another example.

Shaw argues that the present struggles of the Church to be who she is amid governmental mandates and the ascendant «state religion» of secular humanism are the legacy of Baltimore's Cardinal James Gibbons and other early churchmen who found America to be so accommodating to religion as to warrant a reciprocal accommodation to nationalism.

That formulation will be of interest to scholars who worry that the Catholic Church has too easily accommodated itself to the «rights talk» of the liberal - democratic tradition.

Their model church was a small one, with a horizontal emphasis, accommodating no more than a few hundred in a circular worship space that encouraged a sense of belonging.

We have accommodated the church to what Isaiah says the people always want of their prophets: «Give us no more visions of what is right!

What we discover through the Team Visits is that now steps are being taken by many churches to «accommodate» the presence and participation of women.

I'm describing not fourth - century monks, but present - day communities of Christians who think the church in the United States has too easily accommodated itself to the consumerist and imperialist values of the culture.

Throughout the history of the church, risky anthropomorphisms in Christian discourse were excused by appeal to the accommodated, analogical, symbolic or poetic form of the scriptural revelation.

But I can't escape the feeling that in the church, the national flag betrays again the ambiguity and tragedy of contemporary biblical faith, rooted in revolutionary messianic hope but, alas, comfortably accommodated to the self - seeking ways of an inevitably corrupted temporal state.

Given the mystery of the gospel proclaimed in the symbolism of church and family, can Christians afford to dilute its strength in their desire to accommodate the latest cultural fad?

When the pastor's preaching started to draw hippies into his hitherto traditional church, he saw the opportunity of embracing a new generation of believers by accommodating their musical preferences, long hair and hippy attire.

Even our most successful churches such as Holy Trinity Brompton (HTB), with more than 3,000 in weekly attendance, can only accommodate such numbers by holding multiple services across multiple venues in the centre of London.

So then, I take it that this is just a nice structured chat about what a person believes, what the United Church of Canada (UCC) believes, and about the essential doctrines of the UCC triumphing over, or changing to, or accommodating the essential doctrines of the individual.

The state could have accommodated the church and modified their procedures, but they chose to do otherwise, thus removing the church from equal rights to participate in civic matters on account of religious beliefs.

Both churches in town needed larger buildings to accommodate their larger numbers, and the Methodists characteristically executed their funds campaign with aplomb, and with some smugness because the corresponding efforts of their Baptist neighbors were «down in the doldrums... God just doesn't seem to want us to build right now.»

The final result was the rejection within mainstream culture of biblical literalism with its repudiation of history, geology, and the scientific method, and an acceptance of the contributions of science, of evolution and Freudian psychology, of a «higher criticism» of the Bible, of the move from an agrarian economy to an industrial economy and its need for high technology, and of a rearrangement of political views to accommodate social planning and reform which became known in the churches as the Social Gospel.

In the Middle Ages, when the papacy abused its power by waging the Crusades, selling indulgences, and issuing simony, church leaders had accommodated to a culture of greed and violence.

They want the Church to accommodate herself, smoothing over any conflicts between Catholic teaching and the culture of death.

Moreover, however dependent the Indian Church structure later became on the Syrian Persia, the fourth - century report of Theophilus the Indian is evidence that at least two hundred years before Cosmas it had already begun the indispensable process of accommodating Christian practice to Indian ways.

There is an excellent chapter on the building of Riverside, and Fosdick's insistence that the architecture accommodate his two wishes for «beauty» and «a warm church to preach in.»

Our church leaders shouldn't need to live in fear of harsh criticism; our church councils don't have to accommodate bullying and intimidation and our culture need not threaten social exclusion for those who don't fit easily into any one box.

When public worship moved from the house church to the large basilicas to accommodate the growing numbers of Christians, worship settings became much more grandiose and formal.

Dalits who ran away from the village were accommodated in the Salvation Army Church at Ithanagaram and Tenali because of its accessibility to all for meeting, accommodating and protecting.

The wake and funeral was originally scheduled for the Church of the Nazarene in Far Rockaway, but it could not accommodate the thousands of mourners expected to pay their respects to Holder.

The island has a population of around 1000 but a new church had to built in the 1900s as the island's population increased when British soldiers were stationed on the island and the church was too small to accommodate all the new arrivals.

This Church of England primary plans eventually to accommodate 105 children aged between 4 and 11, with just 15 in each year group.

From our humble beginnings renting space in a local church for 77 6th - 9th grade students, we have now moved into our own campus which will easily accommodate our growing student body of close to 500 students this year.

Today, religious views of all kinds abound in Arlington Heights, and there are plenty of churches to accommodate your specific belief system and great schools for the kids.

To accommodate the needs of his congregation, Damien positioned the church so that the gusty trade winds passed through the many windows.

Large variety of homes from romantic cottages for couples to homes that can accommodate up to 26 people for retreats, church groups and family reunions.

The museum's holdings of 1,215 American paintings alone will grow by 226, including beloved works like Frederic Edwin Church's 1857 «Niagara,» a 7 1/2 - foot - wide blockbuster that Nancy Kay Anderson, the curator of American and British paintings at the National Gallery, refers to as «our «Niagara» problem» because it is so important and so large that paintings at her museum will almost certainly have to move or go into storage to accommodate it.