Sentences with phrase «church led them to stress»
The Reformers» theological convictions about the nature and purpose of the church led them to stress the importance of baptismal catechesis in congregational life.
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Wright begins with a painfully short analysis of the early church and the assembling of the canon, noting that the emergence of Gnosticism and other heresies led to an emphasis among early Christians on the historical nature of the church as rooted in the Jewish story, stressing «the continuity from Jesus» day to their own, and indeed on the continuity of the people of Abraham, transformed through Jesus the Messiah but still obedient to the same world - transforming call.»
By the late second century, a mounting fear of deteriorative change and a corresponding stress on material continuity led the church to mute Paul's language.
The stress on the authoritative teaching of Bible or church often leads to stopping at step 4.