Sentences with phrase «church affirmed»

«The church affirmed all its faithful members today.

The church affirmed an increasingly detailed body of authoritative Christian doctrine in which hope for the world to come had been subtly transferred to a distant future, to be reached only after death and resurrection.

By affirming that the Jews are still called as a nation, the Church affirms that no other nation is elected in the flesh.

There is an alternative to this situation, an alternative that can emerge when the church affirms some fundamental aspects of the faith.

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In the present Discipline the church affirms its openness to divergent theological traditions and projects, declaring that the UMC's «theological spectrum... ranges over all the current mainstream options and a variety of special interest theologies as well.»

(3) Any time that the church affirms the uniqueness of Jesus, that affirmation is easily misunderstood as an intolerant and provincial statement.

The church affirms the world as related to and co-created by God, and critiques and seeks to transform the profound and tragic distortions of relationality and creativity in the world.

Early in Faith and Order inquiries it became apparent that formal comparative examination of the confessional and other utterances of the churches was not adequate for a responsible understanding either of what these churches affirmed in common or asserted in difference.

Emphasizing the collegiality of the Petrine office, the Pope says: «When the Catholic Church affirms s that the office of the bishop of Rome corresponds to the will of Christ, she does not separate this office from the mission entrusted to the whole body of bishops, who are also «vicars and ambassadors of Christ.»

Both denominational leadership and local churches affirm our ministry.

And the Catechism of the Catholic Church affirms clearly: «The Church teaches that every spiritual soul is created immediately by God - it is not «produced» by the parents - and also that it is immortal: it does not perish when it separates from the body at death, and it will be reunited with the body at the final Resurrection.»

Not exact matches

In particular, the LCMS, along with its sister church, Lutheran Church — Canada (LCC), has developed good relations with the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), publishing last year a joint statement rejoicing that they can «jointly affirm core teachings (articles) of the Christian faith shared by our church bodies.&church, Lutheran Church — Canada (LCC), has developed good relations with the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), publishing last year a joint statement rejoicing that they can «jointly affirm core teachings (articles) of the Christian faith shared by our church bodies.&Church — Canada (LCC), has developed good relations with the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), publishing last year a joint statement rejoicing that they can «jointly affirm core teachings (articles) of the Christian faith shared by our church bodies.&Church in North America (ACNA), publishing last year a joint statement rejoicing that they can «jointly affirm core teachings (articles) of the Christian faith shared by our church bodies.&church bodies.»

I attend a small group of local gay Christians on Sunday nights, most of whom attend a local accepting (but not affirming) Methodist church.

I believe that it is the church's responsibility to love, accept, and affirm gay men and women and thereby create a positive environment where their sexuality can be expressed in healthy, monogamous, loving relationships (i.e. marriage or civil partnership).

She seeks instead to highlight that the breadth of scripture suggests that a breadth of interpretations can be welcomed and affirmed by the Christian church.

By respecting equally the life of the unborn child and the life of the mother, by supporting notification and consent before an abortion involving a minor, by offering ministries to reduce unintended pregnancy, by affirming (and encouraging church support of) crisis pregnancy centers, and by urging family counsel in decision - making about abortion, the additional language is decisively pro-life.

Together we affirm that Scripture is the divinely inspired and uniquely authoritative written revelation of God; as such it is normative for the teaching and life of the Church.

Sad to say, many churches have permitted the revolution to redirect the faith away from the hard path of obedience to one that simply affirms everyone without seeking to transform their affections and their lives by God's word.

But they are leading lives of such spiritual incoherence that their own integrity should compel them to seek reconciliation through the sacrament of penance, and to do so before affirming a fuller communion with the Church than they in fact enjoy by receiving Holy Communion during Mass..

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.

Evangelical Catholicism affirms divine revelation and embraces its authority, which continues through history in the teaching authority of the Church.

Along the way, Milbank suggests that the Church's emphasis on sexual sins and on hell played a role in secularization, and he ends by asking how we can affirm at least some «procedure and institutionalization» in reinventing a more participatory, erotic, and interpersonal Christianity.

In communion with the body of faithful Christians through the ages, we also affirm together that the entire teaching, worship, ministry, life, and mission of Christ's Church is to be held accountable to the final authority of Holy Scripture, which, for Evangelicals and Catholics alike, constitutes the word of God in written form (2 Timothy 3:15 - 17; 2 Peter 1:21).

Orthodox leaders regularly affirm the constitution's separation of Church and state.

From Merriam Webster: «a member of any of several church denominations denying the universal authority of the Pope and affirming the Reformation principles of justification by faith alone, the priesthood of all believers, and the primacy of the Bible as the only source of revealed truth; broadly: a Christian not of a Catholic or Eastern church.»

Though seminary faculties like to affirm, in principle, a relationship between Christian theology and the life of the church, academic theology tends to view the ministering congregation as an addendum to the really interesting issues of ethics, philosophical and political theology, or social policy.

It calls for the identification and development of resources «which will enable all families to be ministered to creatively and all persons, regardless of their family patterns, to be affirmed and supported in the life of the Church...» Behind such statements lies an emphasis articulated already in 1978 by G. William Sheek, then Director of Family Ministries and Human Sexuality of the National Council of Churches.

That white churches would send ministers to Mississippi to stand with the «crazy niggers,» however briefly, affirming to the world the soundness of what they were doing, was a powerful symbolic act.

«This important research affirms that church leaders broadly agree our faith compels us to care sacrificially for refugees, but also finds that relatively few congregations are actively engaged in doing so,» said Stephan Bauman, president of World Relief.

«I found myself convinced of the position the church has held with almost totally unanimity throughout the ages, that although many people find themselves, through no fault of their own, to have sexual desires for members of their own sex, this is not something to be affirmed and celebrated, but is a sign that we're broken, in need of redemption and recreation,» Hill told students.

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I also hear from a lot of evangelicals who have begun attending Mainline Protestant churches precisely because they welcome LGBT people, accept scientific findings regarding climate change and evolution, practice traditional worship, preach from the lectionary, affirm women in ministry, etc., but these new attendees never hear the leadership of the church explain why this is the case.

BIRTH OF A MOVEMENT: For nearly two decades, DeWitt has been pressing church leaders to affirm the church's role in caring for the environment.

In 2018, looking back and looking forward, we can affirm along with our loyalty to the Pope and the Church, a certain confidence in the future.

I am currently a member of a progressive Baptist church whose affiliations include: American Baptist Churches USA, Alliance of Baptist, Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists, Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America, as well as the North Carolina Council of Churches.

For example, traditional and gay affirming churches partnering on local projects, ministries, programs and initiatives that are unrelated to issues of sexuality (e.g., poverty).

If the church people believe in fidelity (you may fall down on that end and repent, being weak human beings), — but the people on the outside, don't wish to affirm fidelity, why are the people around the outside standing there?

He opened his lecture by affirming the Church's teaching that Catholics must live life to its natural end, a familiar and welcome belief among the folks in the audience that morning.

This entails more than Jewish tolerance; it requires Jews to affirm that the God of Israel has elected the Church to join gentiles to the people Israel.

Quite possibly Barth realized that a dialectical method must negate all human expressions of the meaning of faith — including the creedal and dogmatic statements of the historic Church — while paradoxically affirming the deepest expressions of «subjectivity» or Existenz.

We affirm the authority of the Scriptures and the doctrines represented in the ecumenical creeds of the Church.

The most important contribution of the churches, called for by those who newly look to it with hope, is to affirm the values of our tradition.

They may only enter into full communion with the LDS church as adults, no longer in the custody of their apostate parents, and only by virtue of affirming their faith in the principles their parents reject.

Thus the tension noted above between the values affirmed in the church and the dominant economic paradigm reappears here.

When a man is ordained to the sacred ministry in any of the Reformed churches — and this includes the Anglican Communion, which even the staunchest defenders of its «catholicity» must acknowledge is a «reformed» catholic communion — a form of words is used in which the centrality of the preaching office in that ministry is affirmed.

The same churches also recognize the importance of human development and affirm that growth in Christian understanding is lifelong.

Many people are critical of churches, and David seems to be someone on the inside who listens and affirms those criticisms.

We will work to strengthen those aspects within the Church that affirm the time - honored truths of the Gospel.

The report affirms feminist theology insofar as it is an aid to biblical interpretations that can be a part of a harmonized whole and insofar as it constitutes a call for equal treatment of women in church and in society.