Sentences with phrase «called liturgical churches»

There is no more distorted reflection of the power of the Spirit than Pentecostal services in so - called liturgical churches, which embroider Christianity's memory of great historical moments with the pomp and circumstance of banners, dramatic proclamations and unsingable hymns and anthems.

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Overall, he has produced an impressive body of work which, thankfully, demonstrates that liturgical arts (which Schickel prefers to call «ritual arts» because «it stresses the way in which these objects participate in the drama of religious ritual») can be tastefully done in a modern idiom without lapsing into the triteness or sentimentality that plagues so many of our newer churches.

The so - called aggiornamento (bringing up to date) of the Roman Catholic Church was expressed in ecumenical openness, biblical and liturgical renewal and greater consideration of the huge social problems facing the world.

There was irony in the fact that Richard's wake and funeral Mass took place in what the Catholic Church's liturgical calendar now calls «Ordinary Time»» a phrase Richard detested.

The Episcopal Church, they write, has by and large forsaken its calling as part of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church - choosing instead to be a «liberal yet liturgical» option in American denominationalism.