Sentences with phrase «ecumenical christian»

Americus, GA United States About Blog The Fuller Center for Housing, founded by Millard and Linda Fuller, is a non-profit ecumenical Christian organization devoted to an unrelenting quest to provide adequate shelter for all people in need worldwide.

Glens Falls, NY About Blog Healing Spring Christian Ministries is an ecumenical Christian healing and prophetic prayer ministry based in Glens Falls, NY.

Orleans, MA About Blog The Community of Jesus is an ecumenical Christian community in the Benedictine monastic tradition whose mission is to be a faithful witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, to glorify God through worship, the common life, and the creative arts.

Our readers are intelligent and compassionate, interested in the lives of others and engaged with the ecumenical Christian tradition.

The property was later purchased and converted to an ecumenical Christian boys» residential summer camp (Camp Rockmont).

Orleans, MA About Blog The Community of Jesus is an ecumenical Christian community in the Benedictine monastic tradition whose mission is to be a faithful witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, to glorify God through worship, the common life, and the creative arts.

Our readers are intelligent and compassionate, interested in the lives of others and engaged with the ecumenical Christian tradition.

Orleans, MA About Blog The Community of Jesus is an ecumenical Christian community in the Benedictine monastic tradition whose mission is to be a faithful witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, to glorify God through worship, the common life, and the creative arts.

Orleans, MA About Blog The Community of Jesus is an ecumenical Christian community in the Benedictine monastic tradition whose mission is to be a faithful witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, to glorify God through worship, the common life, and the creative arts.

It was at university that I was drawn to the work of Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), an ecumenical Christian charity working for religious freedom for all.

The resistance of German pastors reached its climax in the two synods of Barman and Dablem in 1934 to the membership of the Ecumenical Christian Council in Denmark marks the beginning of his career in the ecumenical circles.

KC's involvement with the Ecumenical Christian Centre was considered to be unique because of a shift in orientation that he initiated at the Centre.

She is active in the Association of Catholic Women, is chairman of an ecumenical Christian group running the nationwide Schools Bible Project, and was appointed a Dame of St Gregory by Pope Benedict XVI.

She is active within the Association of Catholic Women, chairs an ecumenical Christian group running a nationwide Schools Bible Project, and was appointed a Dame of St Gregory by Pope Benedict XVI.

(He identified me as an ecumenical Christian, part of the «you» that was cheering on the bishops as they tentatively reached toward us «separated brothers and sisters.»)

Such reflections, to be sure, run directly contrary to views widely shared by socially engaged, ecumenical Christians.

While no Christian disagrees with these efforts, some Catholic, Orthodox, liberationist and ecumenical Christians tend to reject these emphases because they fail to evoke direct social action in the more usual sense.

Not exact matches

If the Ecumenical Patriarch were to bring Antioch's issue into open council, so that all the Orthodox churches could discuss it and form a binding agreement, he would demonstrate his primacy — showing himself the first among equals that many Orthodox Christians hope he can be.

The signers raised concerns about the Assembly call for a coherent ecumenical theology, affirming the need for theological work but insisting that the «ecumenical movement needs a theology rooted in the Christian revelation as well as relevant to contemporary problems.»

Arguably the foremost decision unanimously agreed upon at that assembly of church heads was the convocation of a Great Council in 2016, tentatively planned to be held in the Church of Haghia Irene — the site of the second ecumenical council of 381, which completed the «creed» recited by most Christians today.

As for the ecumenical part of the equation, the Holy See seems to accord highest priority to avoiding anything that might give offense to the Russian Orthodox Church, which it perceives to be one key to advancing a broader agenda of ecclesial reconciliation between Christian West and Christian East.

Theology Without Boundaries: Encounters of Eastern Orthodoxy and Western Tradition by Carnegie Samuel Calian Westminster / John Knox Press, 130 pages, $ 14.99 paper Calian, President and Professor of Theology at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (a Presbyterian school), has written a book intended to acquaint Western Christians with the ecumenical contribution of Eastern Christians.

Are we to dismiss it as untrue simply because it is critical of Zionism and therefore would seem counterproductive to the cause of ecumenical relations between Christians and Zionists?

But the vast majority of Christians do not share his ecumenical universalism and so I stay atheist for them, while for the others I may be an agnostic.

The ecumenical movement has adopted the position that «whatever is Christian I will try to belong with, in some sense.»

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.

Since my early days as assistant at my teacher Edmund Schlink's Ecumenical Institute at Heidelberg and afterward during many years of regular ecumenical discussions, especially with Roman Catholic theologians, I became increasingly aware that Christian theology today should not limit itself to some narrowly defined confessional loyalty inherited from the past but should help to build the foundations of a reunited, if to some degree pluralistic, Christian church that should become more and more visible within the foreseeabEcumenical Institute at Heidelberg and afterward during many years of regular ecumenical discussions, especially with Roman Catholic theologians, I became increasingly aware that Christian theology today should not limit itself to some narrowly defined confessional loyalty inherited from the past but should help to build the foundations of a reunited, if to some degree pluralistic, Christian church that should become more and more visible within the foreseeabecumenical discussions, especially with Roman Catholic theologians, I became increasingly aware that Christian theology today should not limit itself to some narrowly defined confessional loyalty inherited from the past but should help to build the foundations of a reunited, if to some degree pluralistic, Christian church that should become more and more visible within the foreseeable future.

He has been a teaching fellow at Princeton Theological Seminary, an international consultant to the Commission on Ecumenical Missions and Relations, National Board of Missions, of the United Presbyterian Church (USA), and is founder and Director of the Christian Center for Asian Studies, and Director of the Doctor of Ministries Studies, a joint program with San Francisco Theological Seminary.

The greatest concern of the Ecumenical Council is this: that the sacred deposit of Christian doctrine should be guarded and taught more efficaciously.

This year I was invited to deliver these ecumenical lectures on the theme of Christians in public life.

The fundamentalists were driving out Christians, who account for about half of the two million citizens in the islands, one of the strongest Christian areas in Indonesia.The violence has raised concerns in the international community and particularly in ecumenical circles in recent months.The woman told ENI that the Jihad warriors, shouting Islamic slogans, «attack and burn down Christian houses, shops and even entire villages, killing whoever comes in their way».

Joseph Allen's Love and Conflict: A Covenantal Model of Christian Ethics (Abingdon, 1984) connects God's general covenant with humanity to the specific covenant Christians know in Jesus Christ, and to the particular obligations, duties and rights that have to be worked out in political, economic, personal and ecumenical life.

Thus, the struggles against torture and terrorism require us to recover and recast a genuinely ecumenical and normative public theology, one willing to engage in the patient yet urgent task of identifying, clarifying and defending those universal principles of right and wrong inherent in the Christian understanding of life.

Those who use the ecumenical lectionary have discovered themselves following a common calendar shared by 80 million American Christians.

They were more ecumenical, forming international alliances designed to bring conservative Christians of many nations together.

Yet the visitor might also marvel that the Christian faith has taken root in an amazing variety of cultures, although it has to be said that such an ecumenical spirit has seldom been characteristic of the churches.

While this prediction accords with some ongoing dynamics of Christian history, and while it might be vindicated several centuries down the line, the persistent vitality of traditional Protestantism, as well as certain ecumenical moves by both Catholics and Protestants, suggest this was a kind of pro-Catholic wishful thinking on Tocqueville's part, as well as a too determinedly logical kind of thinking.

Simon thinks the only reason he and his crew were granted access to the monks, many of whom had never done interviews, was a story they did on the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the leader of the global community of 300 million Greek Orthodox Christians.

This statement, originally titled «A Christian Women's Declaration,» was issued on September 16, 1997 by the Ecumenical Coalition of Women and Society, a project of the Washington - based Institute on Religion and Democracy.

The concerns that surface when one considers piety or the quality and depth of the seminarian's relationship to God and other persons include: (1) Christian community, (2) spiritual formation, (3) vocational study, (4) ecumenical fellowship, (5) corporate worship, (6) personal witness and (7) community service.

It was this Roman soldier who made the first ecumenical confession of the Christian faith.

In celebration of this year's Pentecost Sunday on 23rd May, Premier Christian Media is inviting churches and Christians nationwide to join together in a nine - day ecumenical act of unity and prayer, known as a Novena.

These men and women were invited to grapple with a massive, urgent issue currently confronting the whole Christian community and contemporary culture — in an ecumenical spirit of worship and dialogue, within an atmosphere of the warm hospitality of a great Christian university.

Most mainline Christian denominations and many ecumenical agencies have official statements on economics and justice.

The urgent ecumenical question is how African, Asian, Latin American, North American and European Christians can live together in the same church, authentically expressing the same faith of Christ and love of Christ.

My own indignation was especially «righteous» since I was deeply involved, with others, in a protracted, earnest crusade to recover and re-present John Wesley (not only to Methodists but to other Christians as well) as a significant theologian and as a fruitful resource for contemporary ecumenical theology.

He detailed many signs of encouragement that this reformation was in process, among them the historical understanding of the Bible and the growing ecumenical character of Christian thought.

At the same time, it must be said that this ecumenical (to all the inhabited world) sense of the missionary aim was given new impetus by what John R. Mott (Edinburgh, 1910) defined as «the decisive hour of Christian Mission» which called for» the evangelisation of the world in this generation».

But our work together thus far has already established several points that may have an important bearing on the future of theological education in America: (1) the party - strife between «evangelicals» and «charismatics» and «ecumenicals» is not divinely preordained and need not last forever; (2) the Wesleyan tradition has a place of its own in the theological forum along with all the others; (3) «pluralism» need not signify «indifferentism»; (4) «evangelism» and «social gospel» are aspects of the same evangel; (5) in terms of any sort of cost - benefit analysis, a partnership like AFTE represents a high - yield investment in Christian mission; and (6) the Holy Spirit has still more surprises in store for the openhearted.

Under the auspices of NCBC, the World Council of Churches, the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians (EATWOT), and the Korean Christian Church in Japan, I have visited many countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.