Sentences with phrase «church in a particular context»

These have their own understandings of what it means to be the church in a particular context.

Not exact matches

Because all of Scripture is culturally directed — i. e., because all of it was written for a particular situation and out of a particular context - the evangelical can not use the issue of culture to distinguish between arguments for women's place in marriage and her place in the church.

If with this we associate the usual «catholic» view that a priest is especially assigned the responsibility of administering the sacraments of the Church and in particular the celebration of the Eucharist, we have a proper setting or context for the labor of proclamation.

This claim is frequently presented, whether implicitly or explicitly, as a correlative to the idea that Christianity often as personified by Jesus or less frequently by Paul - was «goad» for women, paid them particular attention, or at least offered them opportunities not otherwise available, to caricature, the ideal of «the Feminist Jesus».60 In an admirable and scholarly article Leonard Swidler has marshaled historical evidences to show convincingly that Jesus was a Feminist.61 The politics of such a view is self - evident, for much study of the subject has developed within a context where women were struggling to establish a proper role for themselves within the contemporary church; to this end they have sought an egalitarian past to act as model for present polity.62

David (with apologies for interrupting the Luther vs Calvin showdown I think this cartoon is spot on, and I notice that you have not put it in the context of church, but in no particular context.

Explaining his views on the Church's involvement in politics, he said: «While St Paul's is not on any particular political side — that is not its role — it does have an important part to play in providing a place for reasoned debate within a moral and spiritual context.»