Sentences with phrase «ancient church»

I speak throughout Canada and internationally to churches, conferences, women's groups, universities, and workshops on topics ranging from spiritual formation, a sacramental view of living, being a Christian feminist, the ways that we can navigate change throughout our faith journey, the embrace of ancient church practices as a charismatic Christian, writing, social justice, and many other topics.

Edinburgh's superb architecture ranges from ancient churches to monumental Victorian masterpieces - all dominated by a castle on a precipitous crag in the city's heart.

But I would say, when we're talking about church teaching, the notion that we're watering it down, I think is not helpful because — once again — the primacy of conscience is in fact church teaching and is a quite ancient church teaching that's being restored.

Walk around in the maze - like alleyways, visit ancient churches, or just simply sit in the local cafes as you gaze at the colorful houses and windows that make up the entire town.

The most ancient Churches have a tradition of recognizing families as «little churches»....

While the West has struggled to come to terms with the relationship between modern forms of inquiry and ancient church dogma, the Orthodox seem to march on, untroubled by modern historical consciousness.

Like many of its sister ancient churches of the East, the Armenian Apostolic Church lays special emphasis on the season of Great Lent as a «school» for personal spirituality.

In Bruges posits the idea that our boys are in God's waiting room — not Florida, but some enchanted backwater, waiting for judgment on high for their sins while sightseeing ancient churches and contemplating Bosch.

The Basilica is a large, ancient church whose roots trace back to the 16th century.

I think there are something like 40 + ancient churches in this Barrio, Quito Antiquo.

Next you head to the former capital of the state, Ribandar, where you get to see ancient churches and the ruins of St. Augustine Tower.

There's lots of sightseeing to be done around here too, including Qawra Tower and beautiful ancient churches.

Scenic Highlights: Set eyes on the stunning Caucasus Mountains, wander in and out of ancient churches, stroll narrow streets in Tbilisi, savour under - the - radar delicious food and wine in Georgia

Stroll through the ancient walled city of Intramuros, explore the Philippines» financial capital in Makati City, and visit ancient churches and historic museums.

His mother Helena (c. 255 — c. 330) visited the Holy Land in 326 and identified several of the holy places, including the birthplace of Jesus at Bethlehem, where she built the Church of the Nativity, which is one of the most ancient churches that pilgrims continue to visit to this day.

There is now an opportunity to exercise that love in a way that not only will restore communion between two ancient churches but will demonstrate that all Orthodox Christians truly do belong to one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church.

Indeed, Luther can quite straightforwardly identify the doctrine of justification with the Christological dogma of the ancient Church, as he does in his Sermons on John 6:

Look at the similarities between the ancient church in Ethiopia and Eritrea known as the Tawehdo right of the Catholic Church

His study focuses on addressing modern theological issues including Soteriology, Christology, and video games in dialogue with the ancient church, especially the Greek Fathers.

And so out of poverty, out of struggle, out of the worst kind of oppression, a new form of the ancient church is being born.

The canon had been determined by bishops and rabbis and received from the ancient church without question by the Reformers, just as they continued to receive the dogmatic decisions of the ancient councils.

The mutually recognized authority of Scripture served well in the debates with the papacy, but the Reformers and their successors never did a terribly good job of saying why they received what they received from the ancient church.

First of all, both the East and the West were the heirs to the Bible and to the ancient Church, which in both worlds refer beyond themselves to an origin that lies outside today's Europe, namely in Palestine.

He may, of course, have known John Mark, as well as Peter; he may, indeed, have been John Mark; but I should feel much more certain in describing him as a Roman Christian — though possibly not born in Rome — who reflected at an early day the somewhat cold and unimaginative outlook characteristic of at least a major strain in the heritage of that ancient church.

Indeed, it was the confession at baptism in the ancient church, the affirmation at the very initiation into the Church.

Proxy baptisms and other ordinances have been performed for the dead since the ancient church.

This is how Orthodox believers view their dynamic continuity with the ancient church and scripture.

And in the ancient churches it's easy to construct a vision of the medieval man or woman who once sat in the same hard pew — a person who understood, as we never can, his or her place in the universe.

For the function of art in the ancient Church (as it continued to be in the Eastern Church) was to depict the sign, not the event, and solely in a transcendent world symbolizing the world of God.

Ancient orthodoxy has provided a starting point on which all parties in the ecumenical conversation could agree, and current Orthodoxy (of the Orthodox churches) has presented an incarnation of the ancient church from which all parties could learn.

He reiterated that he had written a piece in The Times four years ago, saying: «the world must wake up urgently to the plight of the ancient churches throughout the region who are faced with the threat of mass murder and mass displacement».

To process with the pilgrims to these ancient churches, as Weigel and his collaborators did, is to enter into the storied history of a place that belongs to all Christians.

The so - called «Nestorian Church» is properly called the «Church of the East» and is the ancient church of Persia.

This, however, leaves us with the question why this was not understood at the time, why the reformers did not have the patience to listen to the ancient Church lovingly and understandingly till they heard this sola gratia and sola fide, and why the Church, on her part, did not speak more clearly and bravely about what was the just concern of the Reformers.

The ancient church required a multiyear catechesis before one could be baptized.

Protestants were trying to rediscover the ancient Church, but instead they created a dancing array of sorcerer's apprentice brooms, all trying to sweep one another clean.»

Nearly all the ancient churches and monasteries have been destroyed or converted into mosques, madrassas or prisons.

They celebrated Easter by bombing an ancient church, and their slave markets list their «property» according to age and religion, with Christian and Êzidî girls from the age of one on sale.

The offices in the Church from Ephesians are are Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor / Teacher and in the ancient church the only offices in the church were Bishop, Pastor and Deacon.

The error that I believe that the ancient church made was to substitute supposedly Christian observance for the pagan ones and hoping that eventually the reason for the pagan holiday would be forgotten.

Lee follows the ancient church and describes the transfiguration as both an epiphany and an apocalyptic vision that «discloses the face of God and the hope of God's future.»

Soulen gives a long and fascinating list, ranging from the ancient Church Father Irenaeus («God, Offspring, Similitude») to theologians from contemporary Myanmar («Sun, Brilliance, Warmth»).

The Epiphany of our Lord was, in the ancient church, a day that was set aside to commemorate not only the visitation of the Magi, but the Lord's Baptism, and his first miracle.

Imagine, for a moment, that there was a great struggle in the ancient church regarding whether or not music was conducive with Christian worship.