Sentences with phrase «church as an institution»

I was not aware of this history of the word, and you are probably right that it has led to people viewing church as an institution.

While the denomination I serve is far from perfect, I have to say that my own lived experience of church has for the most part, been far more positive, uplifting, and healing, than the picture of church as institution that comes through in your cartoons.

One of the least effective, and usually counterproductive, ways for churches as institutions to care is to take political positions on bow such problems are to be remedied.

It's the latter that's hostile to the Catholic Church as an institution as a matter of principle.

But the world of biblical scholarship, theology and church practice is largely acting as if no change has taken place - our understanding and explanation of the meaning of revelation and the Bible is largely fixed in the old paradigm, putting most churches as institutions out of step and out of touch with the experience and culture of emerging generations.

The meta view shows that churches as institutions resist change to their own internal beliefs.

In response to our reader's objection, Mr. Solomon writes: «While I would not wish to oversimplify the case, and though I recognize that there are many liberal Catholic thinkers who are tolerant on this subject, the Catholic Church as an institution remains singularly and aggressively antagonistic on the subject of euthanasia, and does more than any other organization in the world to stand in the way of death with dignity.»

Jews should give up asking the pope to admit that the Church as an institution sinned in the past.

The church as an institution, not so much.

The church as an institution and as individuals is very, very wealthy indeed!

This recognition of the emptiness of the church as institution has aroused in our culture broadly and within the Wesleyan movement a strong interest in spirituality.

But it had very little effect on the School of Theology at Claremont as an institution, and our graduates have had very little effect on the church as an institution.

It is sadly clear that churches as institutions can not now provide the leadership humanity needs to avoid terrible catastrophes.

More and more stress was placed on the growth of the Church as an institution; hence the stress on advertising to persuade the people to come in.

Though the church as an institution possesses authority entrusted to it by Christ himself and is expected to exercise that authority, the individual person does not have such authority.

But now I was forced to think harder about the Church as an institution.

We need to foster a sense in the church that the polity and skills of workplace and family finally take precedence over the polity and skills that serve the church as institution.

These changes also place the church as an institution in a different power relationship to the culture than it has previously held since Constantinian times.

The author argues that in the 21st century, churches as institutions will remain essential to nurturing and shaping Christian identity.

Whether they serve primarily as communities of memory, as denominations that help people to act locally while thinking globally, or as support groups that nurture the reshaping of personal identity, churches as institutions will remain essential to nurturing and shaping Christian identity.

In the short term, I am convinced, this honesty will cause the church as an institution to lose power.

The tragedy is not that new clergy need to change their perception of the ministry, but that currently neither the seminaries nor the churches offer a metaphor for ministry that stands up under the first excruciating tension between the needs of one's calling and the needs of the church as institution.

Thus, Herman Bavinck, the great Dutch Reformed theologian, spends considerable time on the Church both as institution and as organism, addressing the kind of concerns Di Russo raises.

That is one of the best descriptions that I have read of the same struggle that I have unexpectedly found myself within this year, that being the way the church as an institution manipulates and forces and excludes and becomes all about itself instead of about people.

The manualists considered the Church as the institution established by Christ to preserve and proclaim His truth.

Then, even more so, I think the spiritual health of the churchâ $ ™ s members must not be linked to the income and profitability of the church as an institution.

The church as an institution promoting «religion» and «human religiousness» had come under criticism.

No, Christ is not disillusioned with the church as an institution on the whole (though I would admit that yes, he definitely is disillusioned with some, maybe even ours at times).

(7) The first model mentioned, the Church as institution, places exclusive emphasis on the hierarchical structure.

I really think we're so cynical sometimes, myself included, but I * do * believe that we can move more and more into perfection and sin less and less, and I * do * believe the church as an institution can function in a healthy and productive way and be a light to the community.

In the last century the Church was presented as a full and perfect society, on the same level as the state; at the same time, emphasis was placed on the hierarchical and juridical aspects of the Church as institution.

Recently Christianity has been identified as a cultural - linguistic system embodied and promoted in the church as institution.

They also acquire a way of becoming acquainted with the life of the world outside the church as institution, with its structure, its dynamics, and its ways of operation.

Interesting how what the church defines as our duty as Christians also happens to be mainly what benefits the church as an institution and little else.

I wonder whether the church as an institution will survive in our day as an effective instrument of God.

But because the church must learn to be the community of faith, we must abandon the idea of the church as an institution of power.

The fact is that, in spite of all the criticism against the church as institution, I have never seen a better alternative to a church that really works and does things in a Godly way.

I fully understand the distinction that is trying to be made between the church as the people of God and the church as an institution.

I submit that the church as an institution is not the bride.

Of course, we look back to the first Christian century through spectacles which have been ground and colored by some sixteen hundred years of the history of the church as an institution coextensive with the state.