Sentences with phrase «ecclesiastical calls»

The temptation among many, both those who occupy or have occupied ecclesiastical calls and also among those who are «ordinary» members of the church, is to collapse calling into call when it comes to the ministerial offices of the church.

These are the ecclesiastical calls to participate in the professional leadership of the church.

It appears that there is general though only implicit recognition of the fact that a call to the ministry includes at least these four elements (1) the call to be a Christian, which is variously described as the call to discipleship of Jesus Christ, to hearing and doing of the Word of God, to repentance and faith, et cetera; (2) the secret call, namely, that inner persuasion or experience whereby a person feels himself directly summoned or invited by God to take up the work of the ministry; (3) the providential call, which is that invitation and command to assume the work of the ministry which comes through the equipment of a person with the talents necessary for the exercise of the office and through the divine guidance of his life by all its circumstances; (4) the ecclesiastical call, that is, the summons and invitation extended to a man by some community or institution of the Church to engage in the work of the ministry.

I have no specific call to order my day and night, at least no call in the sense of an ecclesiastical call to the Ministry of Word and Sacrament.

However, we and others so often invest our ecclesiastical call with such meaning, importance and commitment that we equate calling and ecclesiastical call.

Not exact matches

As a consequence, ecclesiastical authorities felt an even stronger need to call yen Jews and others.

It is not called Eusebius» Ecclesiastical History, but rather Eusebius: The Church History.

The authorization comes from «the competent ecclesiastical authority,» which usually means the local bishop (in canon law often called «the ordinary»), although the wording of the law does allow the bishops» conference to suggest another competent authority.

On this basis, Protestants could question all institutional forms of mediation as falling short of the living Word of God who called such institutions to account, whether they were ecclesiastical or political.

The Reformation had called into question the place of art in sacred spaces, and the political and ecclesiastical future of the region was up for grabs.

For example, he resisted those who called Mary the «Mother of God» (Theotokos literally «bearer of God») and his condemnation may have been because of ecclesiastical rivalries.

Unlike the propagators of the Maria Goretti model, who enjoined girls to embrace virginity for its own sake out of deference to ecclesiastical authority, Dohen affirmed that the consecrated virgin freely chooses to sacrifice marriage, which she called «the greatest natural means to holiness and the source of the greatest human love» for the sake of «something else» (Vocation to Love [Sheed & Ward, 1950], p. 56) In her writings, that «something else» appears to include the spiritual status of a «bride of Christ,» lonely confrontations with God and, above all, the freedom and detachment necessary to serve God in the world.

The moderates, called «liberals» by their opponents, see the conservative resurgence as an ecclesiastical coup d'état, a great power grab engineered by ruthless church politicians who neither understood nor cared about the great watchword of the Baptist tradition: freedom.

The Jewish writers of the New Testament introduced the «ecclesiastical attitude» and other distortions that led to what Rauschenbusch calls «ascetic Christianity,» a religious attitude that thinks in terms of heaven, divine intervention, and personal salvation rather than social justice.

The ministry as a «profession» rather than a calling has encouraged the rush toward ecclesiastical preferment, with clergy jostling one another like bumper cars in order to secure the most prestigious placements.

The Reformation had called into question the place of art in sacred spaces, and the political and ecclesiastical....

The traditional ecumenical goal, «organic unity» among the churches, has fallen on bad days, largely because it is thought to call for a needless suppression of diversity achieved through a generation or more of ecclesiastical self - preoccupation.

The tractate so called gives instruction in Christian morals and ecclesiastical practice.

The emphasis upon order has less to do with ecclesiastical lock step than with what has been called «representative» ministry.

We began with Christ's call to go hand to hand with humankind's ancient foes and ended up with... ecclesiastical rituals!

As you may have gathered, I like nearly everything in your «Call to Covenant Community» manifesto; but most of all I appreciated your central ecclesiastical statement, «The church we seek to strengthen is built upon the hospitality of Jesus.»

Our «first naivete» is surely the condition of being in some sense «called,» but unable to distinguish the authentic message from the reality - apprehensions of our culture or from the dogmatic and ecclesiastical framework in which we hear it.

In others in which summons by an ecclesiastical body is as important as an inner call the latter must be supplemented or tested by a period spent under the supervision of a bishop, a conference, a presbytery, or some other official body.

Hence all human traditions, which are called ecclesiastical commandments, are binding upon us only in so far as they are based on and commanded by God's Word.»

Not only Tertullian but Clement of Alexandria and the document called «Apostolic Tradition» (Roman ecclesiastical regulations dating from the end of the second century) declare that he who holds the sword must cast it away and that if one of the faithful becomes a soldier he must be rejected by the church, «for he has scorned God.»

He refers to «the so - called Letter of James» as being among the disputed writings, «which nevertheless are recognized by many» (The Ecclesiastical History 2:23.46; 3:25.3).

Whether called Protestant, middle class, or bourgeois, therefore, the civility that becomes the civil religion is a set of ground rules permitting civil harmony in the midst of political diversity, religious peace in the midst of ecclesiastical pluralism.

They are focused on the ecclesiastical institutions which are called churches, or, collectively, the Church.

But then the Nestorian church (as most of the early Asian Christian communities came to be called) exercised ecclesiastical authority over more of the earth than either Rome or Constantinople.

While for the most part conforming to the normal expressions of public ecclesiastical observance, the Lollards privately responded with the special fervour of total commitment to the Gospel, nourished a form of religious egalitarianism which in some respect could be called a proto - Protestantism, and were sharply critical of the established priesthood.

The Puritans were called by Providence to settle the New World and to establish a «due forme of Government both civill and ecclesiastical, «8 grounded on the revealed word of God as encountered in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments.

The majority have not been extreme ecclesiastical conservatives since the Second Vatican Council called by Pope John XXIII».

By careful analysis, using various criteria such as are familiar to students of literature, the different strands were separated out which have been called the «J» or Jahwist, because of the predominance of Jahweh as the divine name; also Judean, since it seems to have come from southern Israel or Judah; «E» for the sections where Elohim as divine name is usual, or Ephraimitic, since it seems to have come from Ephraem or northern Israel; and «P» for priestly, as designating a pronounced priestly or ecclesiastical emphasis.

But in his case it is not merely a matter of a so - called ecclesiastical membership.

The bishop is regularly called by Justin the «president,» though this usage may have been dictated by a concern to avoid specifically ecclesiastical language in addressing the pagan world.

That materialism bothers Toller — «this is not the church I was called to,» he says at one point, referring not to First Reformed but to the larger ecclesiastical body — even if the peace and quiet suit him fine.

Benning prefers not to identify as traditionally gendered, so this would be the most direct correlational reading of such a work, yet the artist's project shares with Mike Kelley's more blatantly irreverent ecclesiastical banners the larger task of deconstructing so - called universal (catholic) beliefs as really the refined conceit of status - quo thinking.