Sentences with phrase «ecclesiastical life»

On the contrary, the church in «Asian Asia» in the early period was proudly Asian and did not depend upon Antioch for its origin or ecclesiastical life.

In the case of Christianity, the Gospel moved from the great centres of the Roman Empire such as Antioch or Rome to the places outside of the Roman Empire and Christian communities thus formed were dependent upon the churches in the Roman Empire for their ecclesiastical life.

Never fully at ease with ecclesiastical life (which in these books seems pretty awful), they find comfort in relationships with male authority figures.

Accordingly, in what follows the word «church» moves freely from reference to particular local institutions to ecclesiastical life generally.)

It was built on a complex and evolving set of treaties, informal agreements, and legal fictions through which the Church conceded to Catholic sovereigns rights over many aspects of ecclesiastical life — in exchange for which those sovereigns protected the Church from schism and supplied the resources for missions across the world.

Only in the light of this his central task can Kierkegaard's attacks upon the philosophical speculation of Hegel or upon the social, political and ecclesiastical life of his day be understood.

A great son of the Church who deserves a special place of honour in contemporary ecclesiastical life.

It is true that cultural prejudice and human sin has at times in history limited women's place in ecclesiastical life, and Christian civilization has made significant strides in this regard.

Not exact matches

Such a new ecclesiastical body is designed to allow these pathetic human beings, who are so deeply locked into a world that no longer exists, to form a community in which they can continue to hate gay people, distort gay people with their hopeless rhetoric and to be part of a religious fellowship in which they can continue to feel justified in their homophobic prejudices for the rest of their tortured lives.

I will also no longer act as if I need a majority vote of some ecclesiastical body in order to bless, ordain, recognize and celebrate the lives and gifts of gay and lesbian people in the life of the church.

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.

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.

Our spiritual life is constantly brought back to the decision of faith, to that corner which our moral, theological, and ecclesiastical ruses seek in vain to avoid.

Agape bids us seek justice here, not the stale justice of combat and compromise, but the justice of a search for a new economic, political, and ecclesiastical order in which sexuality can be fulfilling for each in a life which is a support and not a barrier to the love which binds all together.

Our main source for knowledge of his life and works in Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History, Book 5.

The monk Boniface, the chief missionary in the Rhine Valley, turned his back upon assured ecclesiastical position in England for the perils of a pioneer and left a profound impression of courage, selflessness, and beauty and strength of life.

This also is the reason that every Christian must of necessity be «high church,» not in any denominational sense, not with any ecclesiastical overtones, but simply because to be a Christian at all — as we have defined it — means to be a member of that great community of Christian life and worship and faith which has come to be known as «the church.»

Butler shows how in the early national period, as the line of distinction between religion and the civil authorities («separation of church and state») developed and the citizenry relied ever less on the government for things spiritual or ecclesiastical, church life prospered.

Divinings: Religion at Harvard From its Origins in New England Ecclesiastical History to the 175th Anniversary of The Harvard Divinity School, 1636 — 1992 tells the story of religious life at Harvard from its founding in 1636 through almost all of the twentieth century.

The practical and professional emphasis in the seminary has been in the direction of administration, social work, and ecclesiastical machinery rather than the practical discipline of the spiritual life.

There is no shortage of ecclesiastical channels to bring these neglected portions of creation into the life of the church: through sermons and liturgy, through educational forums and retreats, to recall that wild country and wildlife exist not only as strands in the biological web, but as gifts that illumine the sovereignty of God.

If so, religion must be a large experience in which we grow in knowledge as we grow in humility and courage, in which we deal with life and not abstractions, and with God as the environment in which we live and move and have our being and not as an ecclesiastical formula....

The priests» shortcomings continually remind us that ultimate justice flows neither from human institutions nor ecclesiastical insight, nor even from the sensible practice of a moral life.

In ecclesiastical terms, the very notion of authority, as opposed to domination, requires also the notion of a communion of saints who enjoy a sensus fidelium in respect both to belief and ways of living.

Spirituality was thought of as a form of holiness derived from the acceptance of one's station in life and living in obedience to the civil and ecclesiastical powers.

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.

The earliest ecclesiastical tradition regarding the origin of the Gospel of Mark is that given by Papias of Hierapolis, who lived in the first half of the second century.

But under John Paul II's 1979 Apostolic Constitution Sapientia Christiana, institutions granting ecclesiastical degrees were opened to all, whether clergy or lay, who met the academic prerequisites and could legally testify to leading a moral life.

Readers should be aware that Lyle Dorsett curator of the Wade Collection and the person who videotaped the approximately seven - and - a-half hour oral history interview with Douglas, has said that the comment to which Wilson is evidently alluding here actually refers to a time after their (ecclesiastical) marriage, when Gresham had come to live in Lewis's home.

Rosmini must, therefore, be consistently presented as a «progressive» hero, whose life's work was continually being foiled by ecclesiastical and political reactionaries.

The new forms of Christian life and practice that were emerging would provide the ecumenical movement with a concrete credibility well before ecclesiastical formulations would attempt to rise to the occasion.

The person who knows this Word of, God in his life and exalts it with wonder, or the one who has not experienced this liberation, who has perhaps been crushed or coerced by a family or ecclesiastical structure, and who considers this law abominable because he has known nothing but the slavery imposed by other people?

With his subsequent usher textbooks, autobiography (There Is life Beyond Name Tags, Dude Books, 2001), magazine (Badge and Bulletin, the only ushering magazine including a centerfold portrait) and cultlike following, Glibface had almost singlehandedly brought ushering into the sunlight of ecclesiastical celebrity ~ To his fame are credited such innovative strategies as parhug valets; tour guides, computerized seating readouts - for latecomers, and Roy Dude University's School of Usherology.

The spiritual struggle of Western man can be interpreted as his search for a way of life which will make possible free personal selfhood in the midst of all the forces, dogmatic, ecclesiastical, economic, social, and technical, which depersonalize him.

The danger of seeing the Holy Spirit simply in the context of Christian life — and, even worse, solely in the context of ecclesiastical experience — is that we narrow intolerably one great aspect of the operation of God in the world.

Though clergy and ecclesiastical officers must refrain from partisan political activity, as I have cautioned elsewhere, condemning the taking of innocent lives is not partisan, whether through protesting abortion clinics or (as the British clergy did in World War II) denouncing a government for bombing civilian targets.

Each person depends upon Jesus for his salvation and union with God (reflected in the objective order of the ecclesiastical hierarchy), but must also freely give himself over to the power of grace through growth in the spiritual life (the hierarchy of the stages of the spiritual life).

[Thus] the statements of the ecclesiastical magisterium furnish us with a precise description of the extent of social justice as the general norm of the life of the entire social body.

On the other hand their anti ecclesiastical attack paralyzed Catholic life and widely destroyed it.

The second fundamental difference is Schweitzer's independence of ecclesiastical order, and his freedom from identification with any traditional pattern of religious life.

from Persia was the beginning of East Syrian influence on the ecclesiastical and liturgical life of the church in India.

Thus, the political ecclesiastical and theological aspects of the time greatly influenced the life and thought of Bonhoeffer.

Though the ecclesiastical relation between the two churches existed at least from the end of third century, the immigration of Persian Christians to Kerala not only strengthened the existing community, but also influenced its liturgical life.

The «rapid about - face» began in the early 1960s under the impulse of the Second Vatican Council and «its willingness to address non-Catholic Christians as «brothers,» to acknowledge that blame lay on both sides for the ecclesiastical ruptures of the Reformation, to stress the unique role of Christ as mediator between God and humanity, and to urge ordinary lay Catholics to live lives of practical Christian holiness.»

The Christian faith comes to visibility in the world, not primarily in creeds, doctrine, liturgical forms or ecclesiastical organization, but in the lives of those people who are experiencing the faith, hope and love, which have the Christian quality.

They take its publication as an important event in the life of the church, and they note particularly its enthusiastic reception by the laity as a sign that they may have a theological vocation in the church after all, in spite of the fact that their writing has up to now given more ecclesiastical offense than they expected.

While the church frequently gave its blessings to civil persecutions, in its internal ecclesiastical practice its disapproval was even more frequently shown through the refusal of sacraments and ostracism from the common life.

In the main, with independence, especially in Greece, ecclesiastical and political autonomy was followed by some recovery from the ebb in the quality of Christian living during Turkish rule.

After the battles over ecclesiastical control of the seminaries subsided, there was a generation of teachers whose inner lives still evidenced the marks of piety.

Our second monk, William of Ockham, was born in England about a dozen years after Aquinas's death, joined the Franciscans, was educated and later taught at Oxford, and died in 1347 in Munich after a life of considerable turbulence, both intellectual and ecclesiastical.