Sentences with phrase «certain early church»

Not exact matches

He may, of course, have known John Mark, as well as Peter; he may, indeed, have been John Mark; but I should feel much more certain in describing him as a Roman Christian — though possibly not born in Rome — who reflected at an early day the somewhat cold and unimaginative outlook characteristic of at least a major strain in the heritage of that ancient church.

Earlier in our weekend symposium, an Evangelical Protestant with strong localist tendencies had expressed a certain sort of jealousy for those of us whose denominations operate on a parish model, for this, he thought, must make sinking roots into one's church community far easier to do.

For this had been possible in the early Church and exists even today at least in very rudimentary form in the institution of the so - called patronates and in certain rights of the congregations in some Swiss cantons regarding the appointment of their parish priests.

For example, there are claims that certain people in the very early church suppressed certain writings, changed certain writings and even produced writings purporting to be from the hands of Paul or the Apostles.

Of course the very fact that the earliest Church could on occasion go on saying it in Jesus» way makes it difficult to be certain that any given saying originated with Jesus rather than in this earliest phase of the Church.

But here we may reasonably suspect a certain amount of embroidery, the more so since Matthew has also an edifying story about the traitor's remorse and grisly end — a story, by the way, inconsistent with another account of his death which is found in the Acts of the Apostles, not to mention a third divergent account which we know to have been handed down traditionally in the early church.

Does he question whether we can know for certain the writings of the early Church fathers?

Early Christians had certain rituals which defined a Christian http://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/207/2070037.htm, which members of the Church of Jesus Christ (LDS) continue today..

Priority should be given to establishing certain types of groups: As indicated earlier, one of these is a group for church officials, other lay leaders, teachers, and youth leaders.

The early church was certain that in Jesus we see «the Christ, the Son of the living God» (Matt.

The early church found in this passage a clear and certain prophecy of the vicarious suffering of the Christ.

The primary factors which bear on the question seem to me to be five: (1) the churchgoing habit in these churches is earlier and more persistently associated with religion; (2) the emotional accompaniments of worship are more vivid and dramatic; (3) greater demands — or at least, greater consciously recognized demands — are made on church members; (4) more concrete instruction is given in Christian doctrine; and (5) in spite of some false notes, other notes are struck which in certain great essentials lie closer to the heart of the Christian gospel than the usual liberal emphasis.

What follows is a letter to the Conference president, delivered earlier this week, that explains how I see the situation and certain steps that I think the Church should take.

The ADL press release complains about «certain Church figures» who are responsible for the «Christianization of the Holocaust,» citing the canonization of Edith Stein and, earlier, of the heroic Father Maximilian Kolbe who, in a drive - by smear, the ADL implies was an anti-Semite.

Again, I'm not a scholar so I won't be arguing whether a certain word is a verb or a noun, but more importantly looking at what the early Christians believed since many of the early Church Fathers were disciples of the Apostles.

Christ lay down certain principles (being a light, showing love instead of hate and plenty more) and the early church took these principles and put them into practice.

The history of how the early church came to adopt and defend the doctrine of inspiration is a little hazy, but a few things are certain.

In the early Church the sinner was only formally reconciled after doing penance, sometimes public penance in which the parish might join with him on his behalf, for a certain number of days.