Sentences with word «ecclesial»

Certainly individuals do return, but ecumenism is about the reconciliation of ecclesial communities.

It is a false dichotomy, in my view, which has hampered the witness of ecclesial communities on either extreme.

A standard Protestant objection to Catholic Mariology is that she is not as important in scripture as she has become in ecclesial traditions.

• This transmission of the Gospel is a living act of ecclesial tradition» (GDC 78).

Those of us who have been involved in designing and promoting various models for the process of sustained prophetic inquiry can testify to the general lack of interest of ecclesial bodies in such ministry: «social action» is by and large out, and, where it is a priority among church leaders, most of its practitioners are concerned with direct action, not action research.

It may be some new challenge to our civilization, such as that posed by Islam, that will serve as a catalyst for a new Christian solidarity with implications for ecclesial unity.

Since he is a Methodist and not a Roman Catholic or Orthodox Christian, he recognizes that this leaves him with some problems of ecclesial authority.

I will enter the intra-Catholic broils around such proposals as Archbishop John Quinn's only so far as to agree with another statement by Weigel, that «democracy,» in the common understanding of the term, is not a useful idea in ecclesial context, and that proposals to devolve authority should be carefully examined lest they in fact increase bureaucracy.

I am surprised that we have not given greater room for the new ecclesial movements in this country.

Pioneer of the Catholic Lay Movement, forerunner of the new ecclesial communities, founder of the Madonna House Apostolate, Catherine Doherty was a prophet and poet of the Holy Spirit.

But she does believe that the serious study of the congregation at all of the levels of its life — theological, ethical, historical, cultural, socioeconomic and aesthetic — can provide deep insight into the lived ecclesial reality with which theological education ought to be in intense and constant dialogue.

(2) «the unity of the sacrament of Holy Orders, in the clear distinction between the ministries of Bishops and Priests on the one hand and the Diaconal ministry on the other,» is strongly underlined by ecclesial Tradition, especially in the teaching of Vatican II and the post-conciliar Magisterium.

But I assume nobody on either side of the ECT project expects that proposals for ecclesial reconciliation, and therefore for full communion, will be on the agenda in the foreseeable future.

As for the Orthodox, «Pope Benedict emphasizes that we are already in nearly full ecclesial communion with these churches.»

Patrick Collins, from his essay on «Thomas Merton on Ecclesial Reform and Renewal» in Commentary.

Twenty or fifty years from now, we will likely be in official dialogue with some of them, recognizing them as ecclesial communities, and it will not be helpful if they remember, as they surely will remember, that we once derided and dismissed them as cults and sects.

In such a view, the boundaries are not grounded in moral truth or fidelity to ecclesial vocation but would appear to be merely external limits on the expression of an otherwise amoral therapeutic.

The Church in India is in a privileged position, because of its situation in the midst of other religious traditions, to work out new ecclesial structures which translate the vision of the Kingdom.

In the 20th century individual clergy coming into the Catholic Church from ecclesial bodies separated from the Catholic Church at the Reformation, were given special permission to be ordained as Catholic priests.

This theology was «church dogmatics» - it had to do with the reiteration of the self - understanding of ecclesial existence.

Fr James Tolhurst roots Cardinal Newman's understanding of ecclesial magisterium in Newman's experiences as a Church of England priest.

Thus ecclesial order is the paradigmatic manifestation of the Jesus doularchy in the political order of humankind, including the Roman Empire.

In light of this broadly ecclesial understanding of intercession, Augustine returned to Parmenian's argument.

Pottmeyer notes: «The active reception of the Council's first steps toward a new ecclesial self - understanding is... a task that will take decades....

Non-Roman Catholic communities may possess some authentic ecclesial elements and be able to make fruitful use of them as channels of grace.»

If my work has some use in different ecclesial traditions, I suspect it is partly because as a Methodist I am not theologically subtle.

Pastoral imagination is a gift that is given by God in and through communities of faith possessed of deep, rich ecclesial imaginations.

From this we learn that the beatific vision does not cancel out our personality or God's, but rather gives us the measure by which we may understand all human possibility, and it places sociability at the heart of divine union, It is a profoundly ecclesial vision.

Here it would be far more accurate to say that the Catholic Church is irrevocably committed to Christian unity, not ecclesial unity.

The United Church of Canada, one third of it Presbyterian at its inauguration in 1925, at its 32nd General Council in l988, after much study and years of hot debate, made the kind of decision in the face of this issue that ought at least to be considered by other ecclesial communities facing it.

I was invited to speak at the Rhein Meeting, a weekend gathering in Cologne organized by Communion and Liberation, the lay ecclesial movement founded by Luigi Giussani in Italy in the 1950s.

That idea was regarded as dangerously progressive and uncalled for by the English ecclesial establishment of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

It was not a theory to be bantered about but a rigorous ecclesial practice which arose out of the church's day - to - day life and shaped that life.

A rich ecclesial culture, a distinctively Christian way of being in the world, sometimes finds itself positioned against the world as the world is defined by those who are hostile to the influence of the Church.

At that time, I had just finished a study of Ecclesial Base Communities (CEBs), and I understood their importance and that of the theology of liberation in the Catholic Church.

This has always been possible, in different ecclesial forms.

They wonder what ecclesial status Tony Palmer — a longtime....

In its Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, the Second Vatican Council called for a truly ecclesial intellectual development.

program, students can continue their contextual education through a variety of internships, including clinical pastoral education, campus ministry and Christian education, as well as in other ecclesial settings in the U.S. and abroad.

Calvin, for example, denied that Roman Catholic ecclesial communities were churches (except in a very attenuated sense), because they failed to preach what he took to be the true Gospel.

It is beyond the scope of this article to trace the development of ecclesial roles in the sub-apostolic age.