Sentences with word «churchmanship»

The Bible is not simply a document of churchmanship with pastoral preoccupations.

To Cardinal Danneels: If we begin from the fact that Sunday Mass attendance in your country is something on the order of 4 percent (as I'm told by one of your brother - bishops), it does seem somewhat cheeky, and perhaps downright preposterous, to suggest that Africans take lessons in churchmanship from their putative Belgian betters.

Since the established churches were not reaching large segments of the population, evangelicals could not be content with ordinary churchmanship.

Of course, calling Wesley a liberal in these lectures refers primarily to theology and churchmanship rather than to politics.

One of the things that brought me back to a more active churchmanship by the end of the»70s was the fact that what I had been writing and publishing gained for me a growing religious audience.

Braun believed that many of those who attended church did so out of the belief that faithful churchmanship helped them to become acceptable people.

Augustine's insight was in part a corollary of his doctrine of predestination, but it was just as much a product of his practical churchmanship.

To be sure, the primary duties of ministry were seldom subject to arbitrary manipulation; but feelings about churchmanship could often be nudged up or down a few degrees on the high - low scale.

It is not a mark of sound churchmanship, Baptist or otherwise, to play off the universal church against the local church, or vice versa.

It was at once a challenge to American Protestantism and, increasingly, a platform for Disciples churchmanship.

Soren Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher and theologian, complained that modern churchmanship is only play - acting.

The Anglican scholar gave large credit both to experience and to the Bible, but stressed that in actual churchmanship, decisions become, in the last analysis, either a matter of thin individualism or of listening to the long wisdom of the mature church and of co-operating with the total community in its faithfulness to the inner heart of the Gospel.

Where church discipline was instituted, the regular visits of ministers and elders produced a sense of Christian mutuality and a spirit of churchmanship not matched elsewhere.

Ordained in the Anglican Church of Nigeria, and practiced in both evangelical / charismatic churchmanship and high / Anglo - Catholic

I have grave reservations about the wisdom — or the churchmanship displayed — in seeking such publicity, though this is surely a question on which the various participants will never be agreed.

St. Francis's churchmanship, if we may call it that, was closely related to his radically incarnational religious imagination, which is his second important legacy to our times, beset as we are by new forms of Gnosticism.

Lionized in the 1920s as a trendy man of fashion, he became increasingly conservative in politics and churchmanship and notorious for his truculent contempt for the sham enthusiasms of modernity.

Education and churchmanship were closely connected in the popular mind.

Reading over your names, looking at your faces, knowing the extent of your churchmanship and conscious of the devotion which you have always shown for the Successor of Peter, I must tell you that I do not feel a stranger in your midst.