Sentences with phrase «church upon the state»

Those who advocate a complete separation of church and state, with no influence whatsoever of the church upon the state, are forgetting our country's history.

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I would only counter that without some form of organization our position will continue to be marginalized by politicians and believers, especially those who continue to thrust religion upon the country without respect to the separation of church and state.

In this article, Leslie Ford of the Heritage Foundation, a think - tank based in Washington DC, draws upon sociological evidence from the United States to suggest that the Catholic Church's vision of the married family is the best poverty - busting measure available to modern society.

He states: «Every form of therapy, whether it is carried on in churches, growth centers, consulting rooms or wisdom schools rests upon a vision of what man might become, a diagnosis of his present unhappiness and a prescription for how he may move toward fulfillment»

[16] He also quoted his predecessor Pope Paul VI who said that the doctrine of Blessed John Duns Scotus «can yield shining arms for combating and chasing away the dark clouds of atheism which casts its shadow upon our era», and continued to state that the doctrine «energetically builds up the Church, sustaining her in her urgent mission of the new evangelisation of the peoples of the earth.»

To put it bluntly — and to focus solely upon the most important issue that I, as a Christian minister, must consider — I will state it as follows: Because Mormonism is a church of Satan, and Mitt Romney, in his leadership role (s) in this insidious and abominable cult, is a disciple of Satan, no Christian can support his campign.

The very decline of the influence of the Christian Church, itself partly due to failure to find a new synthesis of faith and reason, and then to live it in fervour of spirit, has thrown increased formative responsibility upon the State.

These fears assumed a fever pitch in 1832 when Pope Gregory XVI de?nounced separation of church and state, prompting Tocqueville to remark that across America «the Catholic religion has erroneously been looked upon as the natural enemy of democracy.»

The principle of ex opere operato - the effectiveness of the sacrament does not depend upon the spiritual state of the celebrant, but upon the proper performance of the rite in the Church - does not preclude the importance of a spiritual openness on the part of initiate and celebrant.

Nevertheless, the Church has there stated unequivocally that she must serve men and will courageously take upon herself all the risks of this service and enter the changing history of our time.

Anyone who practices freedom of religion and separation of church and state can not impose their religion upon politics without being heretical.

Now, even though I am not of an opinion on this issue please do not feel that your interpretation of the Separation of Church from the state is universally agreed upon.

To put it bluntly — and to focus solely upon the most important issue that I, as a Christian minister, must consider — I will state it as follows: Because Mormonism is a church of Satan, and Mitt Romney, in his leadership role (s) in this insidious and abominable cult, is a disciple of Satan, no Christian can support his candidacy.

Faith typed upon stating, «The Christian Church has been totally wonderful all over the world.

Whether this occurs depends not only upon the existence of such independent vehicles but also upon the capacity of church personnel and state personnel to cooperate.

Sorta like the one that Islam is a peaceful religion... lol... Seperation of Church and State... Peace be upon me...

If the argument here is correct, the two developments result from some of the same causes: The American kind of church - state separation meant no church monopolized religious symbols; courts were called upon to articulate ultimate purpose and justice; and judges felt little ambivalence in doing so.

Each can be stated over against one of the exaggerations which have crept into the Church's life, often in connection with a distorted emphasis upon one aspect of the work of the Holy Spirit.

And for what it's worth, my just war commitments hinge upon my belief that church and state have separate approaches, and that the latter has the power of the sword to execute justice.

His main point is to focus upon paragraph 15 of Humanae Vitae (HV) which states «the Church does not consider at all illicit the use of those therapeutic means necessary to cure bodily diseases, even if a foreseeable impediment to procreation should result there from — provided such impediment is not directly intended.»

The scripture states that upon a huge rock (Petra) I will build my assembly (church) and the gates of hell (the grave) will not stand against it.

Neuhaus» oft «repeated claim that a separation of church and state is a necessary condition for modern societies: is this an absolute necessity, based upon its intrinsic goodness?

They believe that the slightest hint of an infringement upon the separation of church and state must be resisted to save our country from an impending obscurantist theocracy.

What is unique about the case of Judaism, however, is the strange task that seems to have devolved on secular Jews by which they have assumed the role» to Novak's undisguised dismay» of being, so to speak, the gatekeepers and marshals of secular ideology, perpetually taking it upon themselves to police the boundaries between church and state.

In reflecting upon Vashti McCollum's death, J. Brent Walker, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, told the CENTURY: «The 1948 case that bears her name set the tone for the Supreme Court's view on the proper relationship between church and state in public schools.»

If the Church is deeply engaged in the civil rights movement, if it is struggling against right - wing misrepresentation of Christianity and of civil life, if it finds itself in a new phase of the Church - State relationship, if it is deeply involved in urbanization and in the passing of previous forms that once marked the so - called Christian epoch, then all these factors must have a profound impact upon theological education and the preparation of men for the ministry.

Hromadka of Czechoslovakia used to speak of the credibility of the evangelistic mission of the church as dependent upon the total life of the church, that is to say, it depends upon the way in which the church makes its prophetic mission of defence of human personhood and peoplehood in society and state and the ability of the church to reconcile diversity within its fellowship of divine forgiveness and become a source of reconciled diversity in the larger society.

The state oversteps its boundaries and encroaches upon human dignity when it seeks to extend its authority into all areas of human life in the same way that the church ceases to be true to its own commission when it becomes an organ of the state.

This country is based upon separation of church and state and some of these organizations, if they had their way, would make this country a western version of some Islamic countries where the religious leaders are the people pulling the strings, not the political people.

They have stressed obedience to the Lord's command «Go, and teach all nations» but have been shy of stating the conviction of Scripture and Tradition, up to and including Vatican II, that unless they hear the Gospel and enter the Church, many will remain slaves of the devil, the flesh and the world, and may never attain the eternal life Christ won for them upon the Cross.

When a bishop acts in persona Christi, fulfilling his duty to teach on matters of faith and morals by identifying propositions to which he calls upon the faithful to assent, he presumably means to state truths that belong to one and the same body of truths: primarily, those entrusted by Jesus to his Church and, secondarily, those necessary to preserve the primary truths as inviolable and / or to expound them with fidelity.

American believers in biblical religion and its moral teachings do not face the relentless pressure visited upon Chinese Christians who refuse to concede that the Church is a subdivision of the state.

It's because of such prominent attitudes in Church and state that the Vicar of Christ upon earth has to remind us Brits, in his ever - courteous way, of the existence, the relevance and the incarnate presence of divinity.

C. K. Shipton points out «there never was an established church in Massachusetts, there was no agreed - upon body of dogma, and serious moral deviation was punished by the state, not the church... Many of the normal functions of the established churches in Europe were here transferred to the state.»

So it is that the Church, building upon some passages in Scripture, pictures a state of preparation short of Heaven, where our gold is to be refined, our dross consumed.

The general thesis of this article is that, while many of these resentments and fears are justified, it is a mistake to project them in indefinitely extended form upon the future and to allow all of our thinking about» Catholicism and most of our thinking about church - state relations to be controlled by them in that extended form.

Therefore the Church's moral teaching states that condom use in marriage is a grave injury upon a good act.

That the phrase «separation of church and state» does not appear in the text of the Constitution assumes much importance, it seems, to some who may have once labored under the misimpression it was there and, upon learning they were mistaken, reckon they've discovered a key to solving a Constitutional mystery.

By separating church and state in our schools, while protecting individual expression of religion, we teach tolerance and acceptance of difference, as well as a respect for the religious freedom this country was built upon.

The first is a common law doctrine regarding the appropriate roles for civil courts called upon to adjudicate church property disputes — a doctrine which found general application in federal courts prior to Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U. S. 64 (1938), but which has never had any application to our review of a state court

The United States is founded upon a profound history of Protestantism in conjunction with a clear separation of church and state.

Returning to the States after 2.5 years in Eastern Europe, we have been surprised and disappointed at how the people we are encountering - even in the church - build relationships upon mere convenience.