Sentences with phrase «among different churches»

European religion was traditionally fraught with divisions among different churches, each defined by its own distinctive doctrine.

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You are so right that so - called «Christianity» is «a religious smorgasboard», in which there are an estimated 41,000 different sects and denominations to choose from among the churches.

If the institutional «church» at large would start to rightly divide the Word of Truth, we would probably find a different attitude among people.

Third, and similarly, «martyrdom witnesses to friendship not only among Christian churches but also between religions,» because «members of different faiths recognise holiness in martyrdom.»

That number is substantially different among respondents who attend church less often.

The test instrument described among the methods in this section is comparatively easy to use and score, and it provides a helpful way to compare the outlooks of both different churches and different people within a single church.

Because the COCU churches did not accept a merger model in 1973, but requested a different plan for growing together into unity, COCU has been preparing a threefold approach to common life, mission and worship among its member churches.

Protestants and Catholics tend to look at authority from rather different perspectives, and on the whole I think it fair to say that the version of the common tradition to which Catholics are heir tends to give them a more positive attitude toward the function of authority in the church than that found among Protestants.

From its birth, the Christian Church has counted among its members people possessing vastly different levels of certainty and fervor.

Every time we move, we church hop among different Catholic churches trying to find one that fits us.

Serving in Paris, France, she is among the 52,000 Mormon missionaries - most of them young adults; the others retired couples - who are knocking on doors and speaking 107 different languages in 180 countries, according to Lyman Kirkland, a church spokesman.

Interwoven with familial, civic, devotional, and secular configurations that are structurally different from the local church, other religious groupings offer alternative patterns of collective reverence and incidentally suggest other ways by which Christianity might conceivably have spread among peoples.

The churches of Christendom are divided among themselves in some 41,000 different denominations and sects, whereas Muslims are divided into Shiite and Sunni, as well as Jews are divided among Orthodox Judaism, Conservative Judaism and Reform Judaism.

Nevertheless, both are devoted to the personal vocation of man, though under different titles... [Yet] at all times and in all places, the Church should have the true freedom to teach the faith, to proclaim its teaching about society, to carry out its task among men without hindrance, and to pass moral judgment even in matters relating to politics whenever the fundamental rights of man or the salvation of souls requires it» (Gaudium et Spes, 76).

Many religious leaders, as well as public officials, talk of friendship between church and state, and claim that in charging the government to be neutral regarding religion the founders meant «neutral among different sects.»

As the church approached the second century, there was no uniform development in structure, theology and practice among different Christian groups.

More than 4 out of 5 evangelicals (84 %), practicing Christians (85 %), and those who attended church in the past week (85 %) said there was a lot of anger and hostility among the different ethnic and racial groups in America today.

An identity transformation of this type occurred among many Roman Catholics in the U.S. following Vatican II, and it may happen to the next generation of Protestants if lower levels of childhood involvement in the church result in a different interpretation of what it means to be a Christian and an «active church member.»

Many of the differences between the paid - time broadcasters and the sustaining - time broadcasters have come about because of their different understandings of the relationship among the church, the Christian message, and American culture.

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