Sentences with phrase «confessional christians»

Whitehead is not, we have admitted, an ecclesiastical Christian, and not a confessional Christian.

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BEM provided an important basis for sacramental and confessional fellowship among Christians.

Since my early days as assistant at my teacher Edmund Schlink's Ecumenical Institute at Heidelberg and afterward during many years of regular ecumenical discussions, especially with Roman Catholic theologians, I became increasingly aware that Christian theology today should not limit itself to some narrowly defined confessional loyalty inherited from the past but should help to build the foundations of a reunited, if to some degree pluralistic, Christian church that should become more and more visible within the foreseeable future.

While personal relationships could form across confessional lines» families hired servants from other communities, for example» and while some religious leaders encouraged respect and compassion for members of other faiths, the relationship among Christians, Muslims, and Jews was hardly a model of cooperation.

Ulrich Duchrow has said rightly in Global Economy: A Confessional Issue for the Churches that the present perversion of economic, political and military institutions puts U.S. Christians in the situation of a status confessionis, a time that calls Christians to a special confession and resistance to the comprehensive wrongdoing in which we all are implicated.

Perhaps precisely because his primary concern was not with the confessional differences, Frère Roger was open to other aspects of Christian witness.

A natural law Constitution need not mean a confessional State, even though it is true that natural law is a Christian concept — but that point got completely lost in the emotional maelstrom that passed for a campaign here.

In such a summoned, gathered, confessional community «not only is Christ present among them, but a Christian church is there as well.»

Moreover, since God is infinitely good to all who truly seek him, I do not see how anyone's experience of grace or formation by grace can settle the truth of one confessional position as against another, and I doet want to look as if I think that the quality of my Christian experience or the strength of my Christian convictions should be decisive in persuading others to accept my views.

In direct proportion to its being deprived of the cultural props that have sustained it as the established religion of the western world, the Christian church is being cast back upon its rudimentary confessional basis.

And because an individual Christian no longer needed a priest to mediate for them, the confessional boxes were dismantled.

Christian's third conclusion means that Whitehead's philosophical theology is in a sense a confessional theology, i.e., a rational «explanation of an interpretation» of human experience.

Black Christians there have issued several confessional statements, including the famous Kairos Document.

Whereas confessional Lutherans defend the historic Christian position of the church on hot - button issues such as same - sex marriage, the ELCA and its partners have embraced the secular world's positions on these issues.

This confessional postmodernism is based on a «tripod,» three interrelated legs: (1) an ethics of character and virtue, (2) the cultivation and shaping of character and virtue through an ongoing participation in the Christian story and narrative, and (3) a separatist understanding of the relationship between the church and the world.

It is only when it is translated into Greek, given the definite article and set in the context of early Christian tradition that it becomes confessional.

For example, in the structures of Christian liturgy in the Protestant tradition, a «call to confession» or an «affirmation of faith» would represent performance in the confessional mode.

Christian doctrine identifies the rules by which Christians use confessional language to define the social world that they indwell.

Christian churches as well as communities of other faiths can not be faithful to their vocation without the freedom and right to maintain their institutional form and confessional identity in a society and to transmit their faith from one generation to another.

Many of the Protestant scholastics of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were animated by similar concerns as the authors of Christian Dogmatics were: to defend a distinctly Reformed confessional identity, and at the same time claim continuity with the age - old tradition of the Church.

The pope rejected ecumenism because it rested on an ecclesiological relativism, offering reunion among Christians without repentance for the sin of division, fostering a theological indifference to creedal and confessional integrity, appearing then only on the surface to be a unifying link.

Noll and Nystrom next survey the international bilateral dialogues on matters of doctrine that followed in the wake of Vatican II between the Roman Catholic Church, on the one hand, and the various «world confessional families» or «Christian world communions,» on the other.

I belong to the true Christian Church according to the Bible, the Fathers of the Church, the Ecu - menical Councils, the Confessional Docu - ments of the Lutheran Churches.

In contrast, the confessional Lutheran tradition «emphasizes, not a momentary decision to convert, but instead the process of becoming a Christian and thus the ongoing life of faith.

It would seek to remain in that central Christian tradition represented by the census among confessional statements of various Christian groups down through the ages....

Others, led by the courageous Pastor Martin Neimüller (1892 - 1984), who opposed the new regime's interference in church affairs and discrimination against Christians of Jewish background, came together in the Confessional Synod or Church.

The history of Christian division and confessional warfare helped give rise to a secular culture that was determined to free itself from religion altogether.

We never found him saying «Redeemer,» «Savior,» or other such more confessional language, although he did commend the figure of Jesus Christ to the Delaware Chiefs, and urged his men to conduct themselves as «Christian soldiers» worthy of the favors they asked of divine Providence.

Different confessional traditions may continue to enrich the historical self - consciousness of all Christians.

What Percy fails to understand is that the language of faith may have ceased to register because Christians have abandoned their narrative and confessional particularity.

Clearly, our church members should have a sense of their Christian identity rooted in the local church and in their own confessional traditions, but that is insufficient.

This is such an interesting passage because, in responding specifically to the threat of Gnosticism, John's rebuttal carries both confessional / belief elements and love / action elements — and both are described as vital to Christian faith.

We were in college together, young bucks full of vim and vigor, passionate about our common Christian faith, even while we stood on opposite confessional sides of the Reformation divide.

And tell it she does, in the picaresque confessional vein of Moll Flanders, through a series of episodes that chart her youth with her naturalist father (Christian Slater, whose transatlantic accent has somehow depreciated from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves), her early teen years as a budding sex addict (portrayed in flashback by Stacy Martin), her tumultuous on / off affair with her oily boss, Jerôme (Shia LaBeouf), and her later career as a torture artist in the employ of the mysterious L (Willem Dafoe).

A Lutheran Layman is a Confessional Lutheran Christian Blog without all the NONSENSE so common to Christianity today.