Sentences with phrase «central bodies of the church»

Never before had the central bodies of the Church published a document of this type.

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In 1956, the Joint Committee presented, to both organizations, a statement tracing the history of the association of the two bodies and offering the Committee» s conviction that the time had come for the World Council of Churches and International Missionary Council to consider afresh the possibility of integrating the two Councils.18 In the same year, the Joint Committee prepared a draft plan of integration, with a booklet entitled: Why Integration 2, to be presented to the World Council of Churches Central Committee Meeting in 1957 and the Ghana Assembly of the International Missionary Council in 1957 - 58.

For this aspect of tradition — the dimension of symbolic distinctiveness preserved in the ancient patterns of the worship and ritual life of the Church — is at least as central to Catholic identity as many of the doctrinal positions worried about by those who conceive of tradition primarily as a body of authoritative teaching.

For these lectionaries include within their various sections — Gospel, Epistle, Introit, and Gradual — a large body of the most memorable and central addresses of the scriptures to the worshipping generations in the church.

Eight years of experiment and study as a professor of religion and the church at Emory University's Candler School of Theology have convinced Hopewell that «the congregation is as central to theological education as the human body is to medical education.»

When you serve in your church and invest in the families, kids and teens around you, it might start feeling easier to understand your role as central to the body of Christ — because that's exactly what you are.

Thus in 1829 John Henry Newman — still at that stage an Anglican — affirmed that Christians become entitled to the gift of the Holy Spirit «by belonging to the body of his Church; and we belong to his Church by being baptised into it».24 And more than a century later, Michael Ramsay, Archbishop of Canterbury in the 1960s — whose meeting with Paul VI in the 1960s was a central moment in the ecumenical movement of that era — took a generally Catholic approach to baptism, if expressed in a somewhat vague, «Anglican» way: «The life of a Christian is a continual response to the fact of his baptism; he continually learns that he has died and risen with Christ, and that his life is a part of the life of the one family.»