Sentences with phrase «distinct tradition of church»
Celebrating the vernacular: Certain regions of the country have a distinct tradition of church architecture, and congregations often want to tie their new building to that tradition.
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Had it not been for the unpleasantness of the sixteenth century, Lutheranism might have become a distinct tradition of spirituality — somewhat like the Franciscans or Dominicans — in full communion with the one Church that Luther wanted to reform.
In Heart of the World, Center of the Church, David Schindler points out that the complementarity of the Catholic tradition is not based on a fragmentation of the male and the female into two distinct parts: «Each images the «whole» of the Trinity, but does so differently.»
On the importance of the teacher in the early church — distinct from the preacher — see B. S. Easton, «The First Evangelic Tradition,» Journal of Biblical Literature, 50:148 - 55; F. V. Filson, «The Christian Teacher in the First Century,» ibid., 60:317 - 28.)