Sentences with phrase «across denominational lines»

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They formed societies that cut across denominational lines.

If a weakness of international ecumenism today is that people in the pews can not see the result of the efforts made, local ecumenism is flourishing and bringing a vivid sense of the life and vitality of Christian encounter across denominational lines.

Where black churchmen were bound together across denominational lines by the spirit of justice which — though at times only timidly — opposed the oppression and dehumanization of others, white churchmen were united across those lines by a spirit of hatred for black people.

High rates of denominational switching and interdenominational marriage, reduced levels of denominational identity and cross-denominational tensions, and pervasive contacts across denominational lines all point toward a declining monopoly of specific religious traditions over the securement of religious convictions.

In part, it is family - pew loyalties that lead people across denominational lines.

Perhaps even across denominational lines, those of us on the center left need to articulate how the Bible still functions for us as a religious authority indeed as the word of God.

Even the common theological point of view, which cut across denominational lines, was opposed by some.

We are obligated to listen to one another, and to discuss our differences across denominational lines, theological persuasions — and even across the center aisle of the sanctuary (where one side of the church prefers Paul Tillich, the other side, Left Behind).

Not exact matches

In spite of obvious religious objections to these proposals, considerable scholarship across denominational and religious lines endorses the practice of organ donation, procurement, and transplantation.

Indeed, an argument could be made that at no time since the First Great Awakening have so many churches of disparate denominational, theological and stylistic approaches been so united in terms of their music: one can now walk into old - line Pentecostal churches, small - town evangelical congregations, mall - like suburban megachurches, and many a mainline Protestant sanctuary across the country on any given Sunday morning and hear the same hymns and choruses done in approximately the same musical styles, with similar settings and instrumentation.

Actually, Rick Perry issued the best open call to prayer I have ever seen at http://governor.state.tx.us/news/proclamation/16038/ which appears to unite all people across belief and denominational lines.