Sentences with phrase «criteria than a church»

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They typically argue that Protestant and Catholic churches define the Church according to human criteria rather than the unity of the Spirit.

(Meier admits that this criterion may depend on our knowing more about both Judaism and the early church than we actually do.

I do not find this so strongly in other process thinkers, and insofar as Muray will not be more specific than that the criterion for reconstituting a tradition is «whatever contributes to the enhancement of relationality and creativity that are true of the fundamental character of reality itself» (93), I do not think he will much like the basis of Hauerwas» critique, namely the stories of the history of Israel and Jesus as they continue to be remembered and enacted in the Christian church.