Sentences with phrase «earlier churches on»

But speculation of this kind, for all its divisiveness, was inevitable; and agreement in the early church on what we have called the «basic Structure» of faith did not prevent it.

Not exact matches

But in the early primary state of South Carolina, with voters scheduled to go to the polls on Saturday and candidates working the state furiously this week, local evangelical pastors are using their influence to rally church members towards salvation, not electioneering.

You on the other hand Angela couldn't be more wrong about Joseph Smith and the early members of the church.

The council of 2016, which has been on the table for discussion and preparation since at least 1961 (although there were earlier proposals for such a council in the 1920s and 1930s), will for the first time ever gather representatives from all fourteen independent Orthodox Churches.

Hours earlier, Maj. Gen. Qassim Atta said in a press conference broadcast on state - run Iraqiya TV that 15 «Arabs» - in Iraq, a euphemism indicating they came from outside the country - were responsible for three deadly attacks in Baghdad in recent months, including a bloody church siege.

«I do find it a puzzling quality of liberal Christians that they tend to get excited when something that had been a cherished belief or practice of the Church is shown to have been false,» says Rod Dreher, commenting on a new book by a Notre Dame historian who says that the early Church's stories of martyrdom were false.

Early Popes (and other Christian Church leaders) placed the blame on the Jews for the execution of Jesus.

Where the critical point in his earlier theology of grace is God's crucifying contradiction of sinful human nature, here the point on which everything hinges is the authority of Christ the Savior, exercised concretely in the sacramental signs of the Church.

Realizing early on that the Catholic Church would be ill - served in the coming battles with secularism without an ability to draw on her own best treasures, Migne devised the scheme of publishing, in uniform format, the entire extant corpus of early Christian literature, much of which was still in manuscript.

However well - intentioned this impulse might be, an ecumenism that proceeds on the basis of forgetting earlier periods of church history is theologically suspect.

Were the names stuck on gospels that upheld the beliefs of the early church?

In his account, the Church's attempts to tame violence through preaching humility and peace had a negligible effect on the ancient traditions of manliness until its efforts were joined with the state's in the early modern period.

But I know a few evangelical and Pentecostal pastors who'd worry that one in four people in church on most Sundays wasn't on board with the resurrection, a biblical reality reflected in the teachings of our Lord, of St. Paul, and the early Cchurch on most Sundays wasn't on board with the resurrection, a biblical reality reflected in the teachings of our Lord, of St. Paul, and the early ChurchChurch.

The attempts to argue that he did not die, or did not die on a cross, have proven futile and many scholars would argue that it is very difficult to account for the early church without recourse to «easter».

It was that inner discontent which stirred Martin Luther to declare his 90 + thesis on the door of the Wittenberg Church in early 1500's and sparked The Reformation.

Going back to the early church fathers and Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, Thatcher argues that children should be «regarded as evidence of the blessing of God on marriage.»

Maybe you should go back and read the early church fathers, the men who learned the faith from the apostles and see what they have to say on this issue.

«The argument against the authenticity of 2 Peter turns on three main problems: (1) problem of external attestation in the early church; (2) stylistic and literary problems with 1 Peter and Jude; and (3) historical and doctrinal problems that seem to indicate internal inconsistency and a late date.

It also places it in continuity with the experiences of the early church, and within the continuing narrative of the development of Christian thought — as people have struggled to make sense of and articulate their lived experience of God — which produced the great ecumenical creeds (with their clear progression of understanding about God, Christ and the Holy Spirit)- and which continues on today.

A few years ago Pope Benedict XVI gave a series of lectures on the early church fathers, and they have been collected into a book: Church Fathers: From Clement of Rome to Auguchurch fathers, and they have been collected into a book: Church Fathers: From Clement of Rome to AuguChurch Fathers: From Clement of Rome to Augustine.

In addition to my earlier comment I will say that I will be surprised if any of the mega church pastors have any comment on the Jonestown massacre that took place on November 18, 1978.

My wife and have have a retired pastor friend who early on in his pastoral career, with the help of several new, young couples challenged the bullies in the church.

Evangelicals have been blessed with the recent increase of studies on the early church fathers.

In this «world come of age,» the Church's mysteries would not be proclaimed publicly but preserved in secret, on the model of the arcanum of the early Christian Church.

To add, modern - day tithing was actually derived from Catholicism, who treated it like, pretty much, church dues or tax (it was something they added early on).

There was a security, love, and wonder I sensed (at an early age) that only Catholics had ¯ the hushed, steepled churches and the priests; the parish school with veiled nuns whose black habits swept the floors; the picture of the pope on the bedroom wall, a strange man with what looked like an eggshell on his head who gave the sense of a wider world and eternity.

The apostles of the early church, who were taught by Christ and inspired by God, organized the church to primarily focus on three things: teaching, fellowship and prayer.

(CNN)- If you don't have a college degree, you're less likely to be up early on Sunday morning, singing church hymns.

Wright begins with a painfully short analysis of the early church and the assembling of the canon, noting that the emergence of Gnosticism and other heresies led to an emphasis among early Christians on the historical nature of the church as rooted in the Jewish story, stressing «the continuity from Jesus» day to their own, and indeed on the continuity of the people of Abraham, transformed through Jesus the Messiah but still obedient to the same world - transforming call.»

The Imitation of Christ, commenting on the early Fathers of the Church, notes «how scrupulously they kept the fasts» having called attention to «the long and arduous temptations they had to suffer.»

In the United States, where the Church experienced a particular problem with clerical abuse scandals during the 90s and early 00s, their Bishops Conference commissioned a Report on the causes and nature of clerical abuse by the John Jay Institute, an independent legal research group, called the John Jay Report.

A few days earlier, on October 29, the Times reported on African - American ministers - among them the Rev. Calvin O. Butts, pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, and the Rev. Floyd Flake, a former congressman who is pastor of the Greater Allen A.M.E. Cathedral in Queens - who publicly endorsed New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg for re-election.

Does a recently discovered ancient commentary on the gospels mean the early Church didn't take the Bible literally?

Yet, in the fourth Gospel, we are told that when Jesus joined the disciples in the upper room after the resurrection «he breathed on them and said to them, «Receive the Holy Spirit»» (John 20:22), establishing a direct (and almost too obvious) connection between him and the amazing Power of the early church.

In early 2004 I was gathering information on an abuse case involving a pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) for a report in Forum Letter, an independent Lutheran publication I then edited.

Earlier this month, I moderated a panel at Fordham University's Orthodox Christian Studies Center on the nascent alliance between American Evangelicals and the Russian Orthodox Church.

Coming out of extreme fundamentalism, I thought it was just the churches to which I'd been exposed early on.

Based on my early church experiences, letting my son «make up» his own mind about religion would be misguided, because that conception of freedom fails to recognize how children learn to reason in the first place.

I never appreciated his use of gratuitous nude pictures he used earlier on to increase his numbers... but I saw it for what it was... I can also see why my husband and I'm sure others, would be offended by what they see & read here if this is not their view of church & religion.

One might find at least a tiny echo of this inadequate notion of reform in his initial impulse to rebuild Christ's Church by attending to ecclesiastical masonry — an episode in the early steps of his pilgrimage toward Christ that makes me think of present - day temptations to live the New Evangelization by getting top - drawer management consultants to advise the Church on messaging.

Second, if the church is attentive to the New Testament, Justin Martyr and Hippolytus, the Eastern church, the Western catholic tradition, the Anglican tradition, the Lutheran tradition, the Calvinist intent (and practice, if not in Geneva then in places like John Robinson's Leiden), the Wesleyan intent and that of the early Methodists, then its worship on every festival of the resurrection — that is, on every Sunday — will include both Word and Supper, not one or the other.

Early on in the book of Acts Peter is the chief spokesman, but after he presents the gospel to the Gentiles Paul then becomes the chief spokesman to the church.

Jesus repeats what he said earlier to Peter and this time confers the power of binding and loosing on the church itself.

Browsing the new arrivals shelf at your local theological library, you're now as likely to find titles by the Catholic dogmatician Matthew Levering, the Orthodox historical theologian Paul Gavrilyuk, and the Reformed theologian Kevin Vanhoozer on why we need to continue to speak, with the early Church, of God's inability to suffer — and of God's voluntary assumption of our human nature, in Jesus Christ, in order to share, and thereby overcome, our suffering — as you are to find another volume on God's suffering in the divine nature itself.

On a visit to the UK for the Pioneer Church Leaders Conference in early 1996, they heard about the Pioneer «Partnership» structure and decided to use the model.

The early evangelicals, like Katharine Bushnell, understood that for too long the church associated women with Eve's sin and men with Christ's victories over sin — a view that wreaks havoc on the Christian view of sanctification.

Earlier this summer, I decided to dedicate some time and space on this blog to the concept of racial reconciliation within the church.

I'm working with several of these smart, inspiring survivors to post a weeklong series here on abuse and the Church, hopefully this spring or early summer.

Today, just as in the early and medieval church, part of the devotional appeal of relics, particularly those of great saints, lies in the possibility of miraculous cures (Acts 19:12), either through their instrumentality, or on the occasion of their close proximity.

For example, he takes one on a tour of the baptistery in the early - third century house church of Dura Europos (Ferguson, Baptism 440 - 443).