Sentences with phrase «current life of the church»

Such thought could, of course, be understood as «church theology,» but the tendency of that rubric is to focus attention upon the traditions and current life of the church in a way that is too limiting.

Not exact matches

We suspect that much of the difficulty of current church life, and our corresponding theology, is that we have not paid serious attention to how hard it is rightly to understand the common things we do as Christians — such as pray, baptize, eat meals, rejoice at birth, grieve at illness and death, reroof church buildings.

If the current trajectory of the Catholic Church continues there will be no one left besides people who live in the 18th century with the desire to have it forced into government.

Then the social - ethical task of the church would not be simply to develop strategies within the current political options — though it may certainly include that — but rather to stand as an alternative society that manifests in its own social and political life the way in which a people form themselves when truth and charity rather than survival are their first order of business.

The greatest challenge facing oldline Protestantism today is whether within our life and thought we will welcome movements that buck the currents of establishmentarianism, Christendom and modernity and that call the church to speak once again the «language of dissent» to a culture and church of compliance and consumption.

The two Churches heads discussed various matters including contemporary social life, pastoral care, education and issues of morality, while also touching on the current events affecting both Egypt and Russia.

Yet it was through the Church in one or another of its many forms that the continuing current of Christian life found its main channel.

The Waldenses were in the tradition of earlier twelfth - century leaders, such as Peter of Bruys and Arnold of Brescia, who led a life of poverty, denounced the clergy for unworthy luxury and grasping for political power, and condemned many of the current customs of the Church.

This has been going on for at least the 2000 years of recorded Christianity, and if there is ever going to be acceptance of the church by people who are trying to live their lives consciously, people who find safe haven in the unconscious hypocrisy that the current Christian church allows to exist are going to be the people who run that church and Christianity in general.

It may be helpful to note, however, that an account of the perceptions and interpretations of the cultural context of theology and church life is as important as a description of a current trend in some graduate schools.

«Current Locations» also speaks to these artists» affinity with creating a sense of place (or places): painter Barbara Marks creates voluminous pictorial & interior spaces with her deeply saturated color palette; Elise Church paints intimate environments based on her travels in space in time; Colombian artist, Esperanza Cortés incorporates natural resources and folklore motifs from her homeland as a means of exploring personal identity; Kyle Vu - Dunn sculpts warped «natural» environments to harbor the self; and Viviane Rombaldi Seppey blends world maps (with emphasis on places she's lived) with morbid imagery from traditional medical textbooks.

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