Sentences with phrase «developed by this church»

The book's title, The Birth of the Trinity, in fact understates the support it gives to the claim that the doctrine of the Trinity was not developed by the Church on slender foundations, but is found with significant richness in the New Testament.

This seems parallel to the early creeds and confessions that were developed by the church.

One of the truly creative answers developed by the Churches was that of the institutional churches.

The formidable pedagogy developed by the church to inculcate the person of Christ into the total world view and ethos of Christian life has today largely failed, the house of authority, to use Edward Farley's image, having collapsed.1

A special machinery was developed by the Church to meet this need, namely, the College of the Cardinals.

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In particular, the LCMS, along with its sister church, Lutheran Church — Canada (LCC), has developed good relations with the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), publishing last year a joint statement rejoicing that they can «jointly affirm core teachings (articles) of the Christian faith shared by our church bodies.&church, Lutheran Church — Canada (LCC), has developed good relations with the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), publishing last year a joint statement rejoicing that they can «jointly affirm core teachings (articles) of the Christian faith shared by our church bodies.&Church — Canada (LCC), has developed good relations with the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), publishing last year a joint statement rejoicing that they can «jointly affirm core teachings (articles) of the Christian faith shared by our church bodies.&Church in North America (ACNA), publishing last year a joint statement rejoicing that they can «jointly affirm core teachings (articles) of the Christian faith shared by our church bodies.&church bodies.»

By developing the theme of the Holy Spirit's work in the church through both word and sacrament, Ross is able to lay a foundation that explains much of what is done in the evangelical liturgy.

The new mendicant orders that had already begun to develop by the middle of the thirteenth century were challenged by many in the Church who argued that there was no scriptural warrant for creating these orders.

They are revealed by God's historical and dialogical self - revelation by words and deeds, and in the fullness of time by God's eternal Son becoming flesh in a certain time and space of history; in church history under the guidance of the Holy Spirit they have to be witnessed to and developed through the living tradition (see the dogmatic constitution Dei Verbum, 2, 8).

The new initiative has been developed by Care for the Family, CCPAS (The Churches» Child Protection Advisory), and the Evangelical Alliance.There are 4,000...

By visiting the sick, organizing the church and developing an urban ministry, the pastor imbued the members of the congregation with a new sense of confidence in their value to one another and, in particular, to the neighborhood.

Within two generations after Origen the intellectual leadership of the Christian churches in Cappadocia were calling for the churches themselves to develop that «atmosphere» by developing a distinctively Christian literature in the broad sense.

(You can encourage your church to become a more exciting place by helping to develop a network of growth groups, for persons at all the life stages.

It is a sheer fact, undisputed by any who have knowledge of what transpired in early Christian history, that the Christian Church developed its patterns of thought, its theology, through the constant interaction of the biblical witness and the «non-biblical» environment in which the primitive Christian community found itself.

It is a continuously developing organism, so the history of the church — indeed of any religion — is a story of continuity and change and the church today has been shaped by the past.

While the Church must always continue to develop its exposition of the Faith through theology and apologetics, it should by no means neglect the power of beauty to affect human thinking, feeling and judgement.

Telling the story develops the identity and mission of a congregation by establishing the setting of the story of a local church, its picture of the world; narrative proclaims corporate nature.

By his own public statements and also through his role of helping to develop an alcoholism education emphasis for the youth and adults in his church school, the minister helps to plant the seeds of understanding of the nature and treatment of alcoholism.

Quite a different pattern has developed in Germany, where the churches sponsor family counseling services staffed mainly by physicians and psychologists.

Other factors inhibiting the church from developing a new understanding of creation are the patriarchal nature of the ecclesiastical establishment and the expectation of a millennial period in which human strife will be overcome and superseded by a reign of peace and justice.

And today, rather than playing defense, American seminaries like Mundelein in Chicago are exploring how the Church might go on offense — not in an offensive way, but by developing new models of a 21st - century apologetics that invites disenchanted post-moderns to experience the divine mercy and come to know the truths to which that experience leads.

Building on the Catholic emphasis on the importance of free marital consent, Luther and Calvin developed further the covenantal understanding of marital commitment, elevated the status of women, emphasized the freedom of young adults to choose their partners, helped make marriage more compassionate and established marriage as a civic institution regulated by secular law yet also blessed and given meaning by the church.

Here, more than in any testimony developed at the trial, was the mute evidence of the anguish caused by the rift in the church: «Green silk altar hangings given by Miss Winifred Walker in memory of her sister, Ruby Walker... Private communion service given by Mrs. Annie Rose Robertson Sprague in memory of her mother and her sisters... A dogwood planted on the front lawn in memory of Marie Gatling Payne...»

These principles have a notable ancestry within the Calvinist tradition with which I identify: from the concept of sphere sovereignty developed by Dutch theologian and statesman Abraham Kuyper, to the Politics of the sixteenth - century German Calvinist Althusius, all the way back to Calvin himself, who spent the greater part of his career struggling for the freedom of the Church in a city where civil rulers dictated ecclesiastical policy.

The manner in which «fulfillment theology» has been developed by the Christian church has frequently led to ecclesiastical triumphalism and, in many cases, to anti-Judaism.

Failure to develop strong centralized structures can be attributed to polity (particularly among the Baptists), accidents of history, patterns of church growth, migration to the cities by rural blacks and, most critically, lack of money.

The Protestant bishop of Karachi, for example, has been stopped twice in the past year by Christians who object to his plan to develop commercial space around the outer wall of St. Andrews, the second - largest Protestant church property in Karachi.

English Puritanism developed an anti-absolutist ideology because it found a relatively strong popular base among the laity but was opposed by the state church, which was closely linked to the king who gave it patronage in return for ideological support.

The main objectives of this Consultation were to analyze globalization and its impact on human rights; to study ethical and theological considerations with regard to globalization; to search for alternative development paradigms; to study the policies of developed nations on development and trade policies in the context of globalization; to gain inputs on the experiences of indigenous people, workers and farmers who are affected by globalization; to consider the response of the Churches to the challenges posed by globalization and to study and identify concerns that the Asian churches can take up in order to address the adverse impact of globalization in the Asian Churches to the challenges posed by globalization and to study and identify concerns that the Asian churches can take up in order to address the adverse impact of globalization in the Asian churches can take up in order to address the adverse impact of globalization in the Asian context.

Its advocates champion a thesis advanced by historian Philip Jenkins and others: Christianity's axis of power is tilting south and east, with church membership growing rapidly in the developing world while it declines in Europe and America.

A number of churches have fine programs along this line, but I am particularly impressed by the Covenant Discipleship groups recently being developed in the United Methodist Church.

It is our belief that this vision is urgently needed by the Church in this time of crisis and we are committed to continue to promote and develop it through the movement in its many different spheres of influence and especially through this magazine.

These tendencies are exemplified by early Christian heresies that doubted any possible relationship between Jerusalem and Athens, and developed an extensive legalistic theology against the «compromising» church.

Then an explicit and crucial piece of ecclesiology is inserted into the text, based on a vivid Gospel image well developed by the Fathers: «the wondrous sacrament of the whole Church» emerges from the crucified Lord's pierced side.

For me, when I realized that there was a spirituality that was developed by the early church — by the same community that wrote the New Testament and would naturally understand it best — and that this spirituality had been practiced unchanged by believers in every culture and time, I had to be there.

In response to the Nazi evils, Barth led the Confessing Church to develop the Barmen Declaration, a document wherein every credimus [we believe] is followed by its corollary damnamus [we reject].

Eastern Orthodox scholars, such as Soloviev and Bulgakov, developed much of this thesis many years ago, but are almost entirely ignored by the Western Church.

R. Bultmann wrote, «according to the oldest view, Christ's resurrection coincides with his exaltation to heavenly glory».23 G. Bornkamm agrees, saying, «What is certainly the oldest view held by the Church made no distinction between the resurrection of Christ and his elevation to the right hand of the Father, while only later was there developed, in addition, the theory of the resurrected Christ walking the earth for a time and only subsequently ascending into heaven.

C. F. Evans sums up by saying, «It is plain that Matthew's final chapter furnishes neither reliable historical information nor early Christian tradition about the resurrection, but only an example of later christological belief as it had developed in one area of the church, and of the apologetic which had been conducted in that area in the face of Jewish attacks.

Several women's groups turned from primary concern with the institutional church to community projects, as a result of the «new flavor» developed in the groups through interpersonal deepening.20 It has been my experience that many larger church meetings, including worship services, can be enlivened by incorporating small group communication and awareness experiences into the proceedings.

The vertical orientation of the church fellowship defines another unique resource — an explicit concern for nurturing spiritual growth by helping people develop functional adult values and philosophies of life and thereby strengthen their connection with the Source of life and growth.

The young Catholic Churches, as they grow, develop a synthesis of faith, culture and life, and so it is a synthesis different from the one developed by the ancient Churches.

The Church pursued her mission in a developed world that was still broadly influenced by a Christian moral vision and vocabulary.

Too many scholars are not liberated from the prejudice that Jesus did not say (or even know) that He is God, so that the doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation were developed by the early Church (for orthodox scholars, authentically developed).

By emphasizing a doctrine of Christ without the whole perspective of the Trinity, theology developed in a very one - sided way and has come to be pre-occupied with the church as the body of Christ, with its structure, hierarchy, and its rules and regulations.

For nonpacifists, the «just war» theory, developed by theologian and church father, St. Augustine (354 - 430 CE.)

While bound together by a common faith and aspiration, they seek to develop their personal gifts in the service of Christ and the Church.

Besides, such a belief would so naturally have developed in the church in the same way that belief in the Bethlehem birthplace developed: According to the Scriptures (the kind of exegesis represented by Mark 12:35 ff.

By appearances, the book is little more than a long, historical survey of the doctrine of the atonement, showing how various views of the atonement have been developed over time and in response to various events within the church and the surrounding culture.

By Madras 1938, there had developed a church - centric view of mission in the International Missionary Council, and in the ecumenical movement as a whole.