Sentences with phrase «conflicting views of the church»

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But my early days of questioning the church were always in the context of seeking «biblical truth» when I found my views in direct conflict with those expressed in my church.

More recently, Coronation Street's Rev Billy Mayhew (Daniel Griffith) is a gay character who struggles with the apparent conflict between his sexual identity and the Church he loves, which could be viewed either as a reflection of real life, or a deliberate ploy to drum up viewing figures by exploiting a delicate and complicated theological subject.

But if we viewed our building not as «the church» but simply as a building that the church meets in on an occasional basis, then the conflict of what happens in the building the rest of the week disappears.

Some people are predicting conflict and maybe even a division in the Roman Catholic Church because of differing views...

«Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with Church dogma must be burned without pity.»

If the increase among men of love of God and neighbor is the ultimate objective may it not be that many of our confusions and conflicts in churches and seminaries are due to failure to keep this goal in view while we are busy in the pursuit of proximate ends that are indeed important, but which set us at cross-purposes when followed without adequate reference to the final good?

To describe the Church as a community of memory and hope, sharing in the common memory not only of Jesus Christ but also of the mighty deeds of God known by Israel, expecting the coming into full view of the kingdom on earth and / or in heaven; to describe it further as the community of worship, united by its direction toward one God, who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit yet worshipped more as Father or as Son or as Holy Spirit in this or that part of the community; to describe it as a community of thought in which debate and conflict can take place because there is a fundamental frame of agreement and because there are common issues of great import — to do all this and the much more that needs to be done would be to essay the work of a large part of theology.

St. Augustine's view of history was ultimately optimistic since its end term is the Kingdom of God; but we have seen how this was adjusted to a patient and complex view of history in which the two cities of church and world are mingled in cultural creativity and conflict.

Living together, «open» relationships, divorce, material belongings, wealth, church structure and hierarchy, what the «true» church is, the role of women in the church... the New Testament has some pretty challenging, and at times conflicting, views on these and other issues.

In the light of that claim, it is reasonable to attribute the New Testament's use of the phrase «the Jews» to the point of view of an era when the church was in conflict with the Jewish community, hence to conclude that the anti-Semitism in the New Testament is incidental.