Sentences with phrase «century old church»

What it does have is a more than century old church and an African American history.

Under the plan, 2,000 people would be forced to relocate, 900 homes would be torn down and 10 centuries old churches destroyed.

Not exact matches

The proposed mine sharply divided the inhabitants of the valley, which is dotted with centuries - old timber barns and onion - domed churches, and surrounded by sheer - sided mountains.

Built atop a Mayan temple, in Merida you'll find centuries - old colonial homes, churches, and grand buildings.

Sounds like you're fighting the same old battles that we in the old - line mainstream churches have fought for centuries!

Meanwhile, Iraq's beleagured president Nouri al - Maliki accused the organisation of trying to destroy the «centuries - old heritage» of Christians in Iraq, he said: «What is being done by the Daesh terrorist gang [ISIS] against our Christian citizens in Ninevah province, and their aggression against the churches and houses of worship in the areas under their control, reveals beyond any doubt the extremist criminal and terrorist nature of this group, he said.

But, as the editors of the Century acknowledged, many in the church preferred the old environment to the new and did not appreciate clergy who challenged it.

«David Wells of the World Pentecostal Fellowship confessed that too often evangelicals did not understand or appreciate historical churches, their centuries - old stand for Christ, and their presence in countries in which their witness and pastoral ministry has been dominant,» Stiller wrote.

A sea of Catholic devotees jostle for position as they try to touch the life - size statue of the Black Nazarene as it arrive at the Quiapo Church during the annual procession in honor of the centuries - old icon of Jesus Christ in Manila on January 9, 2013.

Rogue ordinations of priests and consecrations of bishops are nothing new in Christian history, but with the breakaways to the Old Catholic Church following Vatican Council I in the nineteenth century, the phenomenon of episcopi vagantes (bishops on the loose) became a pronounced feature of an underworld of apostate Catholics and sectarian Anglicans.

The old model of the Church was a faithful reflection of the old substance mode of philosophy that had characterized the Church since the fourth century.

This model is rooted in an understanding of schooling already at least four centuries old by the time Christian churches appeared on the scene.

Until the rise of the creationist movement amongst southern baptists over the last couple of centuries, belief in a 6000 year old earth was never doctrine in any christian church.

When reading the Old and New Testament, one finds that right from the start, both in Judaism and early Christianity, family relationships were considered extremely important, and this is also seen in the work of the churches throughout the centuries.

By the early - to - mid 4th century, the Western Christian Church had placed Christmas on December 25, [17] a date later adopted in the East, [18][19] although some churches celebrate on the December 25 of the older Julian calendar, which corresponds to January in the modern - day Gregorian calendar.

Yet even though the differences in usage between Old Testament and New Testament caused some second century Christians to conclude that two different realities were referred to, the apostolic church was adamant, that it was none other than the God of Israel who had spoken to men in Jesus.

The results of this schism are with us still; it is not uncommon to find Baptist and «Christian» churches still facing one another across town squares and village lanes throughout Tennessee and Kentucky, just as New England Congregationalists divided into Old Lights and New Lights in the eighteenth century.

Since ascending the throne of Saint Peter, Pope Francis has shown more than any pope in my life time (I am 68 years old and a Roman Catholic) that he follows the teachings of Jesus Christ and he is the biggest breath of fresh air the Catholic Church has seen in centuries.

Chrismons emerged in 1957 when Frances Kipps Spencer, the daughter of a Lutheran minister, decorated her Lutheran church's Christmas tree with centuries - old monograms and Christograms that pointed to the person and work of Christ.

And, surprising to us, old - line Pentecostal groups — those started through missionary activity in the first half of this century — are often not as vital as charismatically inclined churches that were started in the past two decades.

George A. Gordon, minister of Boston's Old South Church a century ago, was asked if he could remember a certain historical fact.

The Catholic church is slowly disintegrating due to the centuries old abuse of children by pedophile priests.

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

In the second century, at the time when the Canon of the New Testament was beginning to be formed, there was a controversy about the place which the Old Testament should occupy in the Church.

Church potlucks may be as old as the first - century Christian communities.

St. Joseph Catholic Church in North Vernon, Indiana has a century - old graveyard that has served as a final resting place for all sorts, but no one quite like Jason Carr.

I think most of the Americans are in lost... as most of them do not know who their father is and it is very unfortunate... even if they know who their father is, the mom has children from diff men outside of marriage... and while a child is being raised, watching what his / her parents do to enjoy their life... so things become normal when they grow up... like if you go back early nineteen century, women were not allowed to go to beach without being covered... and now it totally opposite... if you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend before 15, the parents worries that their teenage has some problem... and lot more can be listed... And then you go to Church, what our children learn from there... they see in front of the Church an old man's statue with long beard standing with extending of both hand... some of the status are blank, white, Spanish and so on... so they are being taught God as an old dude... then you learn from Catholic that you pray to Jesus, Mother Marry, Saints, Death spirit and all these... the poll shows a huge number of young American turns to Atheism or believing there is no God and so on... Its hard to assume where these nations are going with the name of modernization... nothing wrong having scientists discovered the cure of aids or the pics from mars but... we should all think and learn from our previous generations and correct ourselves... also ppl are becoming so much slave of material things...

He proceeds sequentially, from the sacred architecture of the Old Testament to the early Christian basilicas, then on to the Byzantine and Romanesque cathedrals and churches, and from there to the Gothic, the classicism of the Renaissance, the baroque and rococo, the neoclassicism and «revival» styles of the nineteenth century, and on to the present day.

Often this tension was felt to have been so painful that one or another heretic sought to suppress either the Hebrew or the Hellenic element, as with the efforts of the second «century Marcion to get the Church to excise the Old Testament from the Christian Bible, or, from the opposite side, the sneering rhetorical question from the puritanical pen of the early «third «century Tertullian, «What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?»

Of the old church an ancient historian said, «The church in the first three centuries won the empire because it outlived, it outthought, and it outdied the pagan world» — including intellectual and artistic achievement.

On the contrary, Pope John Paul II has suggested that the churches of Africa, for example, provide an important link with an older and undivided Church before the schisms of both 1054 and the sixteenth century.

While none of Jesus Christ's 1st century Christian leaders ever involved themselves in politics to the point that they ran for public office, after they all died out those men Jesus said would sneak into the church did sneak in and did get involved with political leaders and in just a couple of centuries the Holy Roman Empire was the old Roman Empire whitewashed to appear to be something of God's and both the church and the State being led by the very same man, Pontifex Maximus who had his own wife killed for proving that his trinity doctrine was horsepucky.

However, in the 6th century the wicked papacy was established in Italy and in the course of time the Roman Catholic Church (Church of the Holy Roman Empire of German nation, which is the successor of the old pagan Roman Empire) seperated from the Christian Church (Church of the Easter Roman Empire).

In the fourth century, St. Jerome, one of the first true scholars of the church and translator of the Old and New Testaments into what became the Vulgate Bible, asserted that everything written in the Bible is literally true.

Think of the coronations in the United Kingdom, where the civil head of state is crowned in Westminster Abbey by the Archbishop of Canterbury attended by all the prelates of the church, in a centuries - old religious ceremony replete with choirs, trumpet fanfares and processionals, seen and heard worldwide by millions on radio and television.

To find the «good old days» when most people went to church, we would have to reach back across the centuries and the seas to European cultures and their state churches.

Many of the Protestant scholastics of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were animated by similar concerns as the authors of Christian Dogmatics were: to defend a distinctly Reformed confessional identity, and at the same time claim continuity with the age - old tradition of the Church.

He shows how the Tractarians (and others) in the 1820s and 30s believed the Church to be in a condition of spiritual torpor, whereas after the split within the movement between the so - called Xs and Zs in the wake of Tract 90 and the radical takeover of The British Critic, the Zs (Newman's opponents) tried to create a picture of acontinuous stream of living High Church belief and devotion linking the 18th century Non-Jurors and Hutchinsonians to their own «Old High Church» segment of Tractarianism.

Why Milennials are leaving the church: Because a 21st century education inscience leaves no logical room for: men made from mud, 6000 - yr - old planet, talking donkeys, talking snakes, talking shrubbery, insects that wear hats, water turning to blood, corpses returning from the grave, flying men (winged and not - winged), or prophecy.

Over the past two centuries, Old Testament theology has been shaped by two countervailing forces: since the Reformation, the church has been reluctant to free the Bible from its doctrinal interpretations; but since the Enlightenment, the history - of - religions approach that prevails in the academy has refused to be limited by the constraints of faith.

All of which is to say at the very outset of our study of Exodus that through all the centuries of the life of Israel, the people of the Old Covenant (Old Testament), and equally of the life of the Church (the New Israel, the people of the New Covenant), the events and episodes told in the Book of Exodus have been read and reread, told and retold, not so much for their «was - ness» as for their «is - ness.»

Then apparently the old stuff was outdated so he sent his son to «fulfill» the old scriptures but then the son doesn't write anything to replace it, then nearly half a century later other people start writing about the son and claim that as the updated word of God in the form of hundreds of letters to the different congregations, mainly from the new «leader» of the Church Paul, who again changed the tenor of the message.

Second are those in which religion in general, or a specific faith in particular, is favored against other beliefs, as in the older requirement at the state level that officeholders believe in God, or in the nineteenth - century practice of supporting some churches with taxes.

For the Christian church this is a season of distress and adjustment: distress because the ambition of «Christianizing» the world is not fulfilled, and adjustment because its centuries - old life - view and world - view have become obsolete and new ones have to constructed.

In thus individualizing ordination Augustine witnesses indirectly to the extinction in the West c. 400 of the older catholic feeling for the corporate ministry of the local church.51 Within four centuries the hereditary priesthood of Israel had been replaced by the indelible priesthood of Christendom, valid not by inheritance and birth but through a kind of rebirth in the solemn rededication of ordination in the descent of the Holy Spirit, an action which also represented a tactile succession going back to the apostles.

Just two nights after the June 17 shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church that left nine people dead and underscored the centuries - old tension between blacks and whites in the state, Marcus visited Charleston.

Wrapped in ring roads or peeking above a grey urban swirl, one can often discover - as if they had been lost forever - beautiful, centuries - old little churches that stand as timeless reminders of the small village communities that went before.

Older examples include the blocking of Welsh church reform from 1868 to 1920, coercion Acts in nineteenth - century Ireland, and the Patronage Act (Scotland) 1711/12, violating the then recent Act of Union.

The exhibition, currently being shown at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore, includes one of the oldest mummy infants ever discovered, a mummified lizard from the Sahara Desert and a cache of 18th - century mummies uncovered in a long - forgotten church crypt in Hungary.

From the first century B.C.E., this city lay on the frontier of the Roman and Persian empires, which took turns controlling it, and once held both one of the world's oldest Jewish synagogues and oldest Christian churches.