Sentences with phrase «church over matters»

Which again is is right, but not a priority of the church over matters that affect everyone like poverty and other areas of community service.

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(3) Since the church is still divided, and various communions are at odds with others over diverse matters, progress toward visible unity must be reaffirmed and reasserted.

The separation of church and state should mean that it doesn't matter whether the president is protestant, Catholic, Mormon, Jewish, Atheist, Muslim, whatever — the government does not and can not privilege one religion over another.

When he thinks of the matter at all he is likely to try to imagine a nebulous substance like a wisp of invisible smoke that is said to be present in churches and to hover over good people when they are dying.»

Underlying this erroneous tendency, as Faith has pointed out many times over the last forty years, is the implicit or explicit denial of the transcendence of God, the Divinity of Christ, the historical objectivity of revelation and the authority of the Church in matters of faith and morals, and also the denial of the spiritual soul as a principle of existence that is distinct from yet integrates the material within the unity of our human nature.

A barrage of such stuff, pouncing on any scandal that could be dug up and chipping away at the pontificate of Pope Benedict, not to mention the usual stuff about the need to elect a pope who would change the «policy» of the Church over such matters as abortion, gay marriage and women priests, had been unleashed almost immediately, once Benedict had been congratulated for bringing the papacy into the 21st century by resigning.

At the beginning, their «psalms and hymns and spiritual songs» (Colossians 3:16: Ephesians 5:19) were probably taken over and adapted from the older heritage, and while the evidence on this matter is scant, the devotional services of the early churches doubtless leaned heavily on the Old Testament, especially the Psalter, and even on the customs of the synagogue.

I believe in my soul that the evangelical church missed an opportunity over at least two decades to be the Black Lives Matter movement.

@Brett The early leaders of the church, Popes, Cardinals and Bishops used the generic term «wife» as church, collection of people or congregation because they knew they were about to screw the sheepies over not matter their gender.

There is a basic incompatibility between Islam's belief in all encompassing doctrines that embrace religion, private and public life and the American principles of liberty of belief and speech and the absolute separation of state and church affairs For Americans belief is a private matter, not so for Islam, where theocracy rules over all human affairs.

Findings on questions such as the number of people who go to church regularly vary over the years, but the remarkable thing is that the variation is very slight, usually within a matter of a few percentage points.

So the evolution of the Church's understanding of the gospel over the centuries is not a matter of «paradigm shifts,» or ruptures, or radical breaks and new beginnings; it's a question of what theologians call the development of doctrine.

To put the matter bluntly, the world and the churches have changed substantially over the preceding decades.

The question as to whether there is a qualitative difference in the education being offered in church - sponsored colleges as over against state - supported institutions is a matter that has to be debated in the zero - based mission planning that Bishop Adams suggests.

Such reporting, says Shaw, is superficial and distorted because most journalists are abysmally ignorant of theology and church affairs, and preoccupied with fitting everything into the categories of dispute over politics and matters sexual.

«Per the church autonomy doctrine, the courts lack subject matter jurisdiction over the matter.»

I know that defenders of a strict separation of church and state will wonder why Ryan engaging in this public exchange with a Catholic bishop over what might seem to be a purely secular matter.

These words, reported Sandro Magister of L'Espresso, «were reprinted with great emphasis in L'Avvenire, the newspaper of the Italian bishops» conference, which has a direct link to the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone: this is a sign of strong displeasure and irritation on the part of the Church leadership over how this matter came to aconclusion.»

Organs of Presbyterian polity would then work in concert, over time, to engage the whole people of God in substantive matters of faith and morals before the church.

But the Pope remains «the subject of supreme and entire power over the whole Church,» as the Explanatory Note makes clear, and possesses the authority to define matters relating not simply to faith but also to morals.

This amendment granted the Church additional powers over its own governance, enabling it - through the Synod, to bring forth its own legislation, and even to amend Acts of Parliament on matters affecting it.

If they love and care for each other, that's better than a church that runs over its members to get a job done, no matter how glorious the job is.

His mind was still agonising over the matter of the exercise of authority, and in particular the matter of the «Ban» on the sacraments so often exercised by Church authorities when they wanted an overdue debt paying — bans «flying about like bats», as he had said in March — and in general the whole business of excommunication.

Similarly, they did not merely say there should be separation of church and state; rather, they actually separated them by (1) establishing a secular government on the power of «We the people» (not a deity), (2) saying nothing to connect that government to god (s) or religion, (3) saying nothing to give that government power over matters of god (s) or religion, and (4), indeed, saying nothing substantive about god (s) or religion at all except in a provision precluding any religious test for public office.

Any black man, no matter how busted, is feted and fawned over as soon as he strolls into my church — the hopeful sisters line up.