Sentences with phrase «by the christian community»

all by the christian community.

This is part of a series called concrete liturgies by a Christian community, Vaux, where they're exploring what it means to express faith and worship in the language of the city.

Yet, in every age and cultural context Scripture must be interpreted, consensually, by the Christian community.

Thirdly, just as Christian scriptures are the gift of the Word of God offered by the Christian community as a record of its faith, so other scriptures can be considered also as a gift of the Word of God offered to Christians by members of other religious traditions.

Thus contemporary attitudes and practices of play will not only direct our inquiry into theological and biblical sources; they will themselves be challenged and redirected by the insights gained by the Christian community in dialogue with 18 - 23.

But theological schooling, even when undertaken by a Christian community itself committed to vigorous engagement in the public realm, has not itself been rooted in such engagement.

In The Church and the Homosexual I sought to overturn three traditional stances taken by the Christian community regarding lesbian and homosexual relationships.

Everything we can learn about the text's original setting and its subsequent interpretation in the church is legitimate knowledge for serious - minded reflection by the Christian community.

8 Hence one must «kill» the sacred - transcendent God.9 He must be specifically and deliberately pronounced dead by the Christian community, and even the putrefying corpse of his memory must be deeply buried lest its infection bring Christianity to its total death.

The expressions and ideas In the Odes clearly show that they belong to a period prior to any systematic development of Christian doctrine and practice and they were the first attempt by a Christian community to express its new found faith.

The converting people were led step by step to reject their former way of life and enter the new life in Christ as shared and experienced by the Christian community.

Wilson Chowdhry, Chairman of the BPCA, said: «Negligence and violence has led to the death of a man believed to be totally innocent by the Christian community.

They disagreed, however, on the reason why the situation had come about and what ought to be done by the Christian community within the new situation.

It must also be underscored that theology is not content with merely describing that which is lived out by Christian communities.

This mundane political usage was mirrored by the Christian community which began to signify ecclesiastical dignitaries by the term, and then also all those Christians with standing in the community of the Church, and finally, all individual members of the Mystical Body of Christ.

Downing reminds readers that postmodernism «should not be judged by problematic practices carried out in its name,» but should be more closely examined by the Christian community before judgment is rendered.

Not exact matches

It was the opinion of 95 per cent of those questioned in October, 1935, by the National Conference of Jews and Christians that there was less anti-Semitism in their communities at that time than there had been at the beginning of the depression.

The Christian faith and the other faiths that believe in a loving, peaceful God (including much of the Islamic world) have reached out into our communities to help people — helping first and preaching God's love by example.

I think Christians, in general, don't know jack squat about the gay lifestyle / community nor do they really take the time to understand... their scripture says this and that's all they need (blatant ignorance — but that's life)... even those scriptures are up for contention as noted earlier by Trey.

No less important, he said, the Catholic Church also claims an «authoritative teaching authority not made by other Christian communities, and certainly not by the NAE.»

The day's festivities will be run entirely by volunteers from Connect Network - a network that brings Christians, churches and communities together to help transform Sunderland.

Those who support gay marriage will say they are «persecuted» by Christians and that all Christians are bigots because they don't support the ideas of the gay and lesbian community.

Moreover, it is demeaning to suggest that Paul VI affirmed the Church's classic position on marital love and procreation (which had been held for centuries by virtually every Christian community until the Anglican Communion broke ranks at the 1930 Lambeth Conference) because he was afraid that changing the traditional position would unravel the entire body of Catholic moral teaching.

When Jews and Christians have something in common to say to the world, especially when that message is not one that simply promotes some issue of immediate benefit to the communities themselves, secularist stereotypes about the necessarily antagonistic character of religious public discourse fall by the wayside.

According to the prelate, the church attack has caused alarm among the local community, as the mainly Christian south of Nigeria has not suffered from the terror attacks carried out in the north by Boko Haram.

... Christian [community] is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate.

This is the hidden opportunity in 2016 for the Christian community in America and the secret grace offered to us by the unappealing options of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

In addition to the reported forced payments, many Christians are being driven from their communities by the violence or may soon face the prospect of being forced to flee from the brutal insurgent group...

Can't be a Christian without belonging to the Church (by which I mean the community of all faithful people, not any particular denomination — sorry Rome).

In impoverishing themselves by giving their gifts and abandoning their intellectual pride, the Magi «brought themselves down to the level of the shepherds, and so a first Christian community can be formed out of the two groups.»

The manifesto warns: «The next UK government should recognise that without specific urgent action now there is a very real danger that Christian communities will have ceased to exist in large parts of the Middle East by the time of the next general election in 2022.»

But, what we see insteadis the christian community simply standing by and letting extremists speak for their whole religion.

When we are ensnared by sin, it is then that we need good Christian community most.

While there are wonderful examples of kingdom communities who attract, embrace, and transform those who are most judged and marginalized by society and religion today, on the whole today's prostitutes and tax collectors steer as far away from Christians as they did the Pharisees in the first century.

Negatively, it will have to address itself to the ideological appropriation of Christian faith, which is inevitably the case where theology is claimed by a particular human community alleging privileged access.

In Shirley, the Community writers explore the best and worst of Christian culture, by presenting a fully realized, well - rounded character.

For instance, when the chorus tells us that Judaism has been rejected by God in favor of the Christian community, we are shown a mournful picture of «Vashti rejected and Esther chosen Queen.»

I've never met anyone in any religion more convinced of their personal experiences and testimonies than Mormons, yet the entire Christian community outside the Mormon churches dismisses their beliefs as false and their experiences as either delusions or deceptions perpetrated by Satan.

It has become so settled in the mind of the denominational community that «Asking Jesus into the heart» has become the defacto method for becoming a Christian, fearing baptizing converts immediately upon profession of faith will cause them to be «saved by works».

Early Christian communities were also dominated by this sense of the imminent end.

Students spent each day of the four - day conference participating in «community group» learning sessions and praise and worship led by well - known Christian musicians like Chris Tomlin.

As for the suggestion by the Society for Christian - Jewish Co-operation that an interfaith committee advise on revisions, he referred me to a statement by the burgomaster of Oberammergau dated May 13, 1960, which asserted that all matters pertaining to the play are entirely the business of the community of Oberammergau, that the Society for Christian - Jewish Co-operation had overstepped its bounds, and that if revisions became necessary Oberammergau would consult only the church, the poets and the experts in theater practice.

«teachers,» and «apostles»; who managed the staggering influx of widows and women into the Christian community by providing guidelines to ensure that Ephesian churches remained distinct from the pagan cults of the day, but who still expected trained women to prophesy, to teach, and to lead.

There is something deeply moving and reassuring about the shape of the Christian community that emerges from these readings: a community founded on and held together by love.

-- like the Republican evangelicals who all think their church is the most Christian, the most right, the only ones going to heaven yet ignore the real teachings of Jesus by judging others, ignoring charity and the needs of their community, not understanding when the Lord's Prayer begins with «Our» Father — the «Our» is not just white people.

His successors welcomed Jews expelled by Spain in 1492, and for the next four - and - a-half centuries three religious communities» Christian Greeks, Muslim Turks, and Sephardic Jews» shared the city.

One of the most significant essays in the volume, the concluding Christian reflection by George Lindbeck, helps us see precisely how the recognition of analogies and shared metaphors can in fact empower a community to live its own tradition more faithfully.

A prominent churchwoman from Indonesia's troubled Maluku islands has declared that brutal attacks on Christians by «Jihad groups sent from outside» are wiping out the Christian community in central east Indonesia.

Indeed many of the challenges facing the family in the modern world are probably symptoms of the mostly uninformed rejection of this beautiful teaching, held as truth by the entire Christian community until the 1930s.

Do a personal or group study around Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith by Soong - Chan Rah, Mae Elise Cannon, Lisa Sharon Harper, and Troy Jackson This powerful book provides historical information, reflection, and prayers around Christian complicity in sins against God's creation, indigenous people, African Americans and people of color, women, the LGBTQ community, immigrants, Jews and Muslims.