Sentences with phrase «ecclesial self»

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

It will be important if the ROC begins to recognize Ukraine's political and ecclesial self - expression and self - determination.

This ecclesial self - understanding had been theoretically validated during my doctoral studies.

But such is also the task which we must acknowledge to be ours and accept with courage, faith, prayer and ecclesial self - denial.

Not exact matches

If the future pan-Orthodox Council is to have historical significance, its leaders will have to transcend their personal resentments, stop looking after the self - interest of their respective ecclesial fiefdoms, and go beyond the haphazard list of items drawn up decades ago.

The last suggestively argues that dominant notions of «religious freedom» in our political culture have been shaped by Protestant individualism rather than by ecclesial Christianity, with the result of playing into the hands of secularist delusions about the autonomous self.

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

This will also have an ecclesial character, so that the deeper conversion does not turn upon one's own self - understanding but the way in which the community comes tonarrate one's identity.»