Sentences with phrase «by emerging church»

Having grown up in the conservative evangelical subculture that cast salvation as little more than a ticket out of hell that you cash in on Judgment Day, I've personally been enthralled and challenged by the emerging church's perspective on the Kingdom of God.

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The picture of the Church that emerged was distorted by this apologetic context — too much emphasis was being given to points that were disputed (the authority of the pope, for example) and not enough given to other important points (such as the nature of the local churches).

Or are captured by the fact that we meet in a downtown L.A. club called the Mayan, defined by the thousands of pagan gods that cover the entire complex, and label us an emerging church.

Borrowing from the work of sociologist Donald Miller, Wells sees «postmodern spirituality» at work in emerging, extra-denominational «new paradigm churches» characterized by three modes of thinking» the therapeutic, the individualistic, and the anti-establishmentarian.

The far - from - impressive picture of liberal churches that emerges from these data is that they are inhabited by aging, not very committed members, many of whom are headed out the church door.

A strongly emerging feature of the new evangelisation that has been consistently emphasised by Popes John Paul and Benedict has been the evangelising of culture through the patrimony of the Church, the talents of artists and the efforts of believers to show the relevance of the Gospel to the world at large.

And the Church in the 20th century hadn't always got its language and style right: Casti Connubii in the 1930s says wise and true things about marriage and family life, but didn't somehow quite manage to tackle the emerging questions being raised by women as educational opportunities for them expanded and new responsibilities cametheir way in public, commercial, and professional life.

This is a difficult task, because there are so many diverse reasons for the separations, reasons going back to the time of the reformation, reasons which have emerged only later through the historical development of the separated Churches, doctrinal reasons, but also sociological, national, cultural ones which by themselves do not add up to a real denominational difference.

The emerging Church movement he represented was increasingly viewed with suspicion by elder statesmen of the established evangelical churches.

Since World War II, however, only limited parts of the church are aroused to sacrificial giving and service by these visions, and no new vision has emerged to give focus and direction to the denomination.

And contrary to those inclined to see a triumphant tale of Christianity emerging from communism, today's Church remains plagued by the same ills it has borne for centuries.

By segregating all that was unambiguously church - related from «Vanderbilt proper,» he could hope to emerge with a university freed from denominational involvement and restraint.

On the other hand, he was certainly a great hero to the younger anti-Nazi campaigners, such as the «White Rose» group at Munich University (Hans and Sophie School — who were, incidentally, also inspired by the writings of another great Catholic, John Henry Newman) and the youth group at St Ludwig's Church in the same city who combined opposition to National Socialism with devout Catholicism and enthusiasm for the emerging liturgical movement.

Then an explicit and crucial piece of ecclesiology is inserted into the text, based on a vivid Gospel image well developed by the Fathers: «the wondrous sacrament of the whole Church» emerges from the crucified Lord's pierced side.

This is immediately followed by the assertion that the Church's position «is grounded in a proper view of economics, true to the etymology of the term, which emerged in ancient civilizations and in early Christian history to describe the arrangement of a household — God's household, which is ordered and open to those who long to sit at the table which they helped set.»

By their profession of faith, their worship and life, the human beings in the Church form as it were the one expression in which the hidden grace promised and offered to the whole world emerges from the abysses of the human soul into the domain of history and society.

Only by proposing such a theological development can we realistically hope to emerge from our present problems, regain that unity of purpose which is so urgently needed and which is a sign of the Spirit and renew the Church in preparation for a new evangelisation of the world in the coming century.

«Anglicans,» having only emerged as a separate entity over the last decade by quitting the Episcopal Church, are growing.

I have recently been at a seminar by Frank Viola — he taught us about the Organic Church, and although his books «Pagan Christianity», «Reimagining Church» and others, really stirred the idea of the «Emerging Church» OUTSIDE the institutional church, in my life, I realized we are going to miss it Church, and although his books «Pagan Christianity», «Reimagining Church» and others, really stirred the idea of the «Emerging Church» OUTSIDE the institutional church, in my life, I realized we are going to miss it Church» and others, really stirred the idea of the «Emerging Church» OUTSIDE the institutional church, in my life, I realized we are going to miss it Church» OUTSIDE the institutional church, in my life, I realized we are going to miss it church, in my life, I realized we are going to miss it again.

But one theme emerged that I hadn't looked for, over and over: Women, in the middle of their lives, who felt invisible and ignored by the church, the same way they feel invisible or ignored in our culture.

It is ironic and telling that within a few days of writing a post about how young people seem to be gravitating toward either neo-Reformed theology or the emerging church, I should come across a piece by Dan Kimball in which he speaks of the emerging / emergent phenomenon in the past tense.

System 4: A curriculum to equip people for mission and to explore the issues that confront Christians in a changing world, such as the newly emerging Shalom resources developed by the United Church of Christ.

Typically the church is slow to adopt new insights that emerge here and there in the movement, but by the same token, it resists many of the most perverse errors.

Practical theology, emerging out of life in a faith community, is a doxological mode of reflection that, by placing itself within the context of the church's service to God, attempts to facilitate the goal of a faithful life in the present on behalf of God's future.

For example, at a breakfast conversation sponsored by the Emerging Women Leaders Initiative, women from main - line churches shared powerful words of hope and encouragement with evangelical women who struggle to have a voice in their traditions.

Although my thinking is inspired by the seminal work Practical Theology: The Emerging Field in Theology, Church, and World, edited by Don Browning (Harper & Row, 1983), my thoughts essentially are an attempt to make sense of what I do, and thereby add one more opinion to the important effort to reform and renew theological education.

Thus, emerging churches often characterize themselves as «ancient - future,» a phrase that comes from a series of books authored by Webber (Ancient - Future Faith, Ancient - Future Evangelism, Ancient - Future Time).

Will the emerging church be able to sustain its focus on theological renewal without being coopted by trends, hype and marketing?

As the book launch approaches, I've been warned by several advisors to avoid aligning myself with the «emerging church.»

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This post is part of a synchroblog event organized by Julie Clawson, around the question «What is emerging in the Church?»

Whether among the secularized masses of industrial societies, the emerging new ideologies around which societies are organized, the resurging religions which people embrace, the movements of workers and political refugees, the people's search for liberation and justice, the uncertain pilgrimage of the younger generation into a future both full of promise and overshadowed by nuclear confrontation - the Church is called to be present and to articulate the meaning of God's love in Jesus Christ for every person and for every situation.

Although Pius XII was influenced by the fundamental changes in economic theory initiated by Keynes, it was not until Pope John XXIII in 1961 published Mater et Magistra (Mother and Teacher) that a new methodology and the identification of the problem of «development» emerged, requiring substantial changes in the social teaching of the Church which were expressed in Pacem in Terris (Peace throughout the World) in 1963.

His book «accepts the concept of multiple Reformations wholeheartedly,» and seeks to deepen the concept by paying equal attention «to all the different movements and churches that emerged in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, stressing their interrelatedness.»

Helping such churches thrive in a market - driven society is the project being undertaken by postliberal mainliners (as described by Diana Butler Bass in her recent study of vital mainline congregations, Christianity for the Rest of Us) as well as by postevangelical congregations, sometimes dubbed «emerging» churches, that are associated with the work of Brian McLaren and others.

When the churches can no longer avoid controversy by smoothing things over, the positions that emerge in debate have little relation to the Christian faith.

How will the church cope with the limited structures set up by the technopower elite if it chooses to use emerging information technology to communicate the Gospel?

In the last week of May, three separate and unconnected documents emerged which in their different ways contributed to this important aim, two from within or actually initiated by the Church, the other an entirely secular report which gives us the general context of the problem.

The terminology of «daughter» or «younger» churches had begun to emerge out of this colonial period to describe churches planted by missionaries.

This moral disengagement, broken only by the missionaries — mostly of low - church varieties and not intent upon political change — lasted until after World War II, when the decolonization movement emerged as that war's perhaps most important consequence, though it had not been foreseen and had still less been an aim in the developed countries.

A university pastor has been suspended indefinitely by her church denomination after it emerged she hosted a same - sex wedding.

Nevertheless, if a common sense of Church is nascent among the many members of one body and if a relatively clear idea is emerging of the one service to be rendered by ministers in their many duties, then some common idea of a theological school ought also to be possible.

And yet, people who are excited and intrigued by what the emerging / emergent churches are doing are willing to learn the terminology and begin using it themselves.

One of the criticisms leveled at traditional churches by the «emergent / emerging» crowd is that they use too much technical language, theological terms, and Christian jargon that nobody understands.

Later a Jewish Christian sect by that name emerged in church history, but Tertullus's designation does not apply to them, for they acquired their name and organization after Paul's time.

The emerging legislation represents a compromise between a more expansive bill pushed by Assemblywoman Margaret Markey (D - Queens) and a more restrictive one by Assemblyman Michael Cusick (D - Staten Island) that is supported by the Catholic Church.

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