Sentences with phrase «church over the centuries»

Most of the prayers and hymns used in the churches over the centuries do not present the message of love leading to justice, but rather individualistic petitions to God, praise of God or sometimes a triumphalistic thanksgiving for being Christians.

Seriously, I can not understand how such a large part of the church over the centuries could teach that.

Like all religious movements, the teachings of Luther were inevitably nationalized, and that nationalism was a factor in the disunity of the Christian church over the centuries.

Significantly, the witness of the Church over the centuries has denied the possibility that God is indifferent to what human beings do to themselves and to the life that has been entrusted to them, because every human being must one day account for their actions before their Creator.

Not exact matches

For well over a century, a range of men's footwear brands — Grenson, Church's, John Lobb, Tricker's and Crockett & Jones, among others — have called the East Midlands region home, producing more or less the same shoes, more or less the same way.

Since the Protestant Churches have no central authority they can interpret The Bible any way they want, which is why so many erroneous versions were destroyed over the centuries.

In its classic usage in the early twentieth century, modernism meant an approach that gave modern historical assumptions authority over church doctrine.

No local Church over the past two centuries has invested more in the intellectual life than German Catholicism.

It took over a century of deft Vatican diplomacy, disentangling the appointment of bishops from various political imbroglios, to make that canon possible, and the twenty - first - century Church now has the capacity to choose its leadership by its own criteria.

The Church, however, has consistently taught over the centuries that the direct and intentional taking of innocent human life, as in abortion, is a grave and intrinsic evil.

Have not been a practicing member of the Catholic church for over 25 yrs... for all the reasons we've seen in the last couple centuries.

Later in the 2nd century AD, there were more manifestations of Roman authority over other churches.

Through their «own» interpretation and countless translations over the centuries I don't believe it's quite «the word of God» as the church has asked us to believe all this time.

Church traditions have grown out of the expressions of worship that believerrs have found meaningful over the last 20 centuries.

Over the next several centuries, with what Wright considers the gradual loss of the «Israel - dimension» in the church's understanding of itself and its scriptures, «the notion of scriptural authority became detached from its narrative context, and thereby isolated from both the fit and the goal of the Kingdom,» according to Wright.

Over the past half century or so, too many parts of the Catholic world have come to think of «reform» as something we conjure up from our own cleverness, as if we must puzzle out what makes the Church «relevant.»

The Church has attached itself to different capital in interesting ways over the last couple centuries.

Cindy, I share your grief... especially remembering how Southern Baptists, Southern Presbyterians, and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South separated from their northern sisters and brothers over the issue of slavery in the 19th century.

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.

Records show that in 253, the Roman church included over 1500 widows, and by the fourth century, the church in Antioch included 3,000 widows and virgins.

Until the rise of the creationist movement amongst southern baptists over the last couple of centuries, belief in a 6000 year old earth was never doctrine in any christian church.

And in this task we will always be impoverished if we do not honour and respect the insight, wisdom and contribution of those who, from many traditions and cultures over the centuries of the history of the Church, have also brought their understanding to this sacred conversation.

Indeed, as early as Origen in the third century it was being pointed out that we must not think of the Ascension as a movement in space; and in fact Luke seems to have translated into mythical form, i.e. a pictorial narrative, the universal belief of the early Church that Jesus has ascended to the throne of God, not in a physical manner but in the sense that he has been exalted to Lordship over all the world.

We must on no account think that now the Church has got over the Council it is high time to restore peace and order as if, as an Italian Cardinal is supposed to have said, the Council had produced only broken pieces which would take a century to put together again.

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A church that had been a place of continuous Christian worship for centuries is now dedicated to those who took pleasure in spilling Christian blood all over Iraq's historically Christian Nineveh Plain.

I believe that we will have to arch over all of the phenomena of the past 17 centuries back to a time when the church was at its least Pagan.

In fact, scholars and various Church commissions have studied this topic over and over again since the seventeenth century!

How well did the church, over the centuries, maintain this key element of the biblical witness to a living, loving, empowering God?

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.

The efforts undertaken again and again over the past century to trace a line of continuity from the historical Jesus to Paul and from there to our church have been all too tenuous — more ingenious than convincing.

Though the early Church was quite concerned with social justice as a sign and fruit of the teaching of Jesus, over the centuries Churches have had different perceptions on rights, according to their social alliances and theological elaborations.

One of the phenomena most difficult for the Catholic Church to understand, as Gilfeather O'Brien points out, is how the Guatemalan cofradias (religious fratemities based on the syncretism of Roman Catholic and ancient Mayan teachings) have been unable to compete with Pentecostal groups that offer «personal transformation of the kind the Catholic Church has desired but never achieved over the centuries.»

Over the centuries the Church developed a spirituality based on another fundamentally different paradigm.

The Coptic and Russian Orthodox Church leaders have held a formal meeting in Russia for the first time in over a quarter of a century.

«There's a vast history of people the Catholic Church has made saints over the centuries.

Indeed, the free - church tradition has, over the centuries, created the social space in which it is possible to be faithful while retaining intellectual integrity and socially engaged without...

In a series of articles and editorials that appeared in both magazines during 1977, differences of opinion over the church's involvement in society were defined and debated with little resolution.11 Although both sides refrained from labeling it merely a contemporary version of the debate between sixteenth century Anabaptism and sixteenth - century Calvinism, both recognized the importance their historical antecedents played in the discussion.

Over the centuries the church has confronted many rival demands.

As the state has taken over social welfare from the Church in the past two centuries, so Christians concerned for the poor have increasingly said that we must be political.

We are part of a church much compromised by our alliances with the rich and powerful over the centuries.

Jeremy Myers sure that is true, but I never ever thought that way anyway, for I have known since I was a kid the meaning of the word church and the building has only been one of the most popular places church has met over the centuries

Although historically it has not always resisted associating itself with Polish national interests, the Ukrainian Catholic Church today has vigorously embraced the Catholic social teaching begun under Leo XIII and developed over the last two centuries.

Surely the Church has learned this clearly over the past centuries, whatever the temptations.

First, it is interesting that in the fourth century, the road to Constantinople in 381 is not paved by blunt appeals to church authority but by extensive wrestling over biblical texts and fine - tooling of extra-biblical language (most notably the term «hypostasis») in an attempt to establish which exegetical claims made sense of Scripture as a whole and which fell short.

Even changes that the church has made for good (over the centuries) we manage to find a way to ruin it.

Back in the nineteenth century, the Supreme Court explained that churches have authority over their internal decision - making because «All who unite themselves to such a body do so with an implied consent to this government.»

This integrative way of thinking about Church, state, and society has also been common among many Protestants and Catholics over the centuries.

Some Christian scholars are now more interested in the text as we have it and in the history of how it has been used and understood over the centuries by the Church.

Further, what is now considered cannon, was argued over, for a number of centuries by the church fathers... um, you know, the Eastern Orthodox ones?