Sentences with phrase «by clergy as»

Ideas about the sanctity of conscience and the importance of godly edification were emphasized and subtly modified by clergy as they attempted to secure popular submission to the secular authorities, regain ecclesiastical control of the laity, forge alliances with the state, and secure patronage from the aristocracy.

Next to the role of prophetic guide to justice in community, no role is so neglected by clergy as prophetic guide to education.

Not exact matches

Throughout my ministry as a priest, I have been sustained in grace by the prayers of the parishioners and religious that I have been privileged to serve and by the prayers of my brother clergy in the Archdiocese of Birmingham.

East Eastern Christians see a dichotomy of God and creation Eastern theologians are largely unaffected by modernism Eastern theologians do not agonize over the existence of God Eastern theologians systematize the transcendent, the miraculous, and the mystical into their theology, without a concept of «supernatural» Eastern theologians have coherent and helpful answers for most practical spiritual problems (such as during bereavement) Eastern clergy, monastics, and lay experts have resources for spiritual direction, moral direction, and Eastern clergy, monastics, and lay experts have resources for spiritual direction, moral direction, and bereavement counseling; thus they do not outsource religious problems to secular experts.

Hall admitted the windows had been installed by his predecessor as cathedral dean, Francis Sayre, «one of the great activist civil rights clergy of the 1950s and 1960s... [Sayer] could live in that tension, but I can not, and I believe this cathedral can not.

The parishes will be led by former Anglican clergy - including those who are married - who could be ordained as Catholic priests, according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Claiming Romney and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints are non-Christians is an insult and it should not be encouraged by other Christian clergy as is so often is.

According to the letter, one list posted includes the names of all Boston Archdiocese clergy who have been found guilty of sexually abusing a child by the Catholic Church or under criminal law, as well as any accused individuals who voluntarily requested removal from the clergy.

For some reason it never seems to occur to the clergy person (s) to ask whether the accuser (s) have first personally confronted the defendent, as instructed to do by Scripture, before appealing to an authority figure.

The comfort and counsel of a pastor is needed as much by clergy families as by lay families, but clergy are reluctant to consult their peers or judicatory officials whom they perceive to have power over them.

In the tense atmosphere of the city council meeting the night of the vote, Presbyterian minister Paul Miller acknowledged that emotions were running high but told the overflow crowd he spoke from «deep pastoral concern»; he then read a prepared statement signed by 18 members of the clergy who decried «the recent efforts to single out a given group... and to seek to castigate them as being unworthy and unfit to belong to our community.»

By pressing the ancient moral criterion of equity while refusing to discuss the economic criterion of growth, the clergy in effect revived a medieval understanding of faith as intellectual sacrifice.

Recent scholarly studies such as by Stickler, Cholij and Cochini have reopened the debate about the origins of priestly celibacy, arguing that the Eastern practice is not ancient but an accommodation to lapses among married clergy.

A tremendous crash of organ, trumpets, drums and bells thundered through the silence reaching to the very rafters heralding the Pope as he quietly and humbly made his entrance surrounded by clergy and servers.

In 2013, Pastor McBride was selected as the # 9 Top Clergy Leader to Watch in the US by the Center for American Progress.

The pilgrims would gather at a church, known as the collecta, where they would be met by the bishop and other clergy of the city.

Historian Daniel Howe observes that the Unitarian clergy fomented considerable dissent in Massachusetts against the U. S. annexation of Texas by portraying the Texans as irresponsible speculators who had entered Mexico at their own risk.

But there are surely many possibilities to make it clear also by legislation that laymen have not only the right to receive the sacraments from the clergy, as the present Code of Canon Law states.

Preaching as communication can be blocked by many images: images that the clergy may have of the laity, and the laity may have of the clergy; images both may have of the church, the gospel, religion, or of the relation of the church to the world.

One year (4 units) of clinical pastoral education in community mental health, or its equivalent as defined by national certifying clergy organizations professionally concerned with community mental health and community action.

If you listed every single good deed done by church members, officials, clergy and the Catholc church as a whole, and measured it against the negatives, I believe the scales would tip toward te positive most aggressively.

This image is rejected by American clergy as pretentious even as they privately theologize by thinking actively about what God has done and continues to do in specific situations in their ministering.

What of all the scientists who had their discoveries branded heresy becuase they conflicted with The Truth as presented by clergy?

Carmo Rodeia, one of the sanctuary managers at the site, was quoted by AFP as saying 40,000 walkers, 2,000 journalists, 2,000 clergy and 350 patients hoping for healing will attend the pope's visit.

In some conceptions of the ministry one or the other sort may be entirely lacking, or, as in the case of judicatory authority, may be transferred by communal or institutional decision to certain ministers or companies of them or to representative bodies of clergy and laity.

Marx's critique of religion was replaced by the eighteenth century popular critique of religion, clergy, and church, evidently because it was more effective as a political weapon.

And though Stalin executed priests and other clergy that he perceived as a threat to his power, later when he, like many political leaders, saw benefit to be gained by using religious beliefs to enhance his own power, he made an alliance with the Russian Orthodox Church, just as Putin has done today.

The advice issued by the House of Bishops at the time did not prevent clergy from entering civil partnerships, on the basis that the law did not specify the relationship as necessarily sexual.

By looking around them, however, Darwinists belatedly noticed that humans happily cooperate and, in cases such as celibate clergy, even sacrifice their own «genetic good» for others.

That moment triggered a series of responses and counter responses by authorities and residents, as well as local and national clergy that shaped two weeks of protest and clarified camps that were largely defined by social and religious location.

Two more priests have been placed on administrative leave by the Philadelphia Archdiocese as part of an ongoing investigation into the sexual abuse of children by clergy.

Why not let America's Roman Catholics vote for themselves as to whether or not contraception is a sin and force their clergy to abide by the vote?

At an international videoconference organized by the Holy See's Congregation for the Clergy last November, Jean Galot, with an apparent reference to Balthasar, said that the hypothesis of hell as a mere possibility «removes all effectiveness from the warnings issued by Jesus, repeatedly expressed in the Gospels.»

Correction, bible described the earth as a sphere suspended by nothing, clergy lied to the people, something they are still doing to this day.

The ramifications for Christian clergy who try to preach the parable in this fashion are yet to be fully explored and few Christians are theologically prepared to humble themselves by considering themselves as servants to Israel, the bride of God.

By «pastoral counseling movement,» I mean the several thousand clergy with extensive training in counseling and psychotherapy who practice this function as a major dimension of their ministry.

However, the plans could prove to be decisive as the proposals would mean Methodist clergy who had not been ordained by a bishop would be entitled to hold Church of England services.

This meant for the earliest disciples a basic renunciation of the struggle for existence, implemented by a complete break with the power structure of society: the automatic prerogatives of the chosen people, the security of the holy tradition, the comfort of established religious organization and clergy — all such props, controlled by man and as a result constantly available to him for securing his existence, were in principle eliminated.

As Elizabeth Eisenstein says in her book on the role of the printing press, Protestant clergy «viewed printing as a providential device which ended forever a priestly monopoly of learning, overcame ignorance and superstition, pushed back the evil forces commanded by Italian popes, and, in general, brought Western Europe out of the dark ages.&raquAs Elizabeth Eisenstein says in her book on the role of the printing press, Protestant clergy «viewed printing as a providential device which ended forever a priestly monopoly of learning, overcame ignorance and superstition, pushed back the evil forces commanded by Italian popes, and, in general, brought Western Europe out of the dark ages.&raquas a providential device which ended forever a priestly monopoly of learning, overcame ignorance and superstition, pushed back the evil forces commanded by Italian popes, and, in general, brought Western Europe out of the dark ages.»

By and large, most earnest Christian people — and we must here include the clergy as well as the laity — are not very well equipped in this respect.

There is no ordained clergy in Islam; they have as leaders men who have established their ability to guide by their learning and piety.

Perhaps by acknowledging them and understanding them better, we can reduce our sense of isolation and guilt and prevent these feelings from festering into a basically destructive relationship — not only for the clergy spouses but for all members of a parsonage family, and for the church as a whole.

The mobilization had been called by Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, one of the first such efforts by the activist group now known as Clergy and Laity Concerned.

And it is, as it had been a hundred years earlier, largely the work of clergy and religiously active lay educators, who find themselves opposed by church officials and some tendentious colleagues who give every sign of being intellectually cramped and authoritarian.

A.E. Medlycott points out that the value of the report of Theophilus is its evidence that by the middle of the fourth century India or its adjacent territories had indigenous, worshipping congregations ministered to by local clergy, with customs such as sitting for the Gospel, that were well adapted to the Indian culture though divergent from accepted western practice.

I predict that this year Americans will take the thousands of victims of clergy abuse and the intentional cover ups by the catholic church seriously enough to hold the vatican accountable, Yes, instead of letting them get away with cheap, as usual, apologies hundreds of years later.

By accepting the wonderful «challenge of orthodoxy» that is the placing of Christ at the center of their lives, clergy of all stripes would find the inspiration to minister God's love to all the baptized as they labored to promote the Kingdom of God.

What began as an effort by legislators to expand judicial accountability for sexual abuse by Catholic clergy has grown to cover people in every walk of life.

Further, experience has shown that theological education defined as clergy education suffers from the «happiness paradox»: that is, just as we can not achieve happiness by a course of life defined by the pursuit of happiness, so we can not achieve the education of superlative church leaders by a course of study defined by the roles and tasks of church leadership.

If one is totally honest, the Tridentine liturgy as practised by the ordinary clergy in a daily «low» Mass was by and large a hurried and not very reverential exercise.