Sentences with phrase «church for cultural reason»

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This is a difficult task, because there are so many diverse reasons for the separations, reasons going back to the time of the reformation, reasons which have emerged only later through the historical development of the separated Churches, doctrinal reasons, but also sociological, national, cultural ones which by themselves do not add up to a real denominational difference.

But what critics who point to these reasons for the loss of certainty seem too often to forget is that the Church is never only a function of a culture nor ever only a supercultural community; that the problem of its ministers is always how to remain faithful servants of the Church in the midst of cultural change and yet to change culturally so as to be true to the Church's purpose in new situations.

For this reason they have retrenched into what Berkouwer calls «a biblicist misinterpretation of the church's dealings with Scripture and its confession 6 Interpretations have seemed to lead in questionable directions — directions which either have moved away from traditional Biblical consensus or have disputed current cultural analysis.

For several centuries the gatherings of the dominant class in American society, white Anglo - Saxon churches have tended to assume that they themselves have no cultural particularity and therefore no reason to investigate their own ethos, tradition, and world view.

But today, for reasons discussed in earlier chapters, it is simply a widespread cultural phenomenon that for increasing numbers the God - talk and religious language in which the church proclaims her message possesses little or no reality.

Cultural change is cited as a reason to alter the Church's teaching on communion for the divorced and remarried.

One reason why the Christian church in particular has always found theatre a troublesome cultural manifestation is that its own theology, as expressed in the first verses of St. John's Gospel, makes a similar claim for Jesus, as «the word made flesh» (Hinton, 4).

«One of the reasons may well be fewer people identifying as «cultural Christians» ie those who have no active involvement with churches and who may previously have identified as Christian for cultural or historical reasons.