Sentences with phrase «ecumenical approach»

«The ecumenical approach to working with glass among this year's entrants, its techniques and expressive potential, was impressive,» said Zimmer.

Taking an ecumenical approach to equity income and growth in dividends can be helpful to dividend payers and growers as bond yields start to compete with equities.

For it is precisely God's purpose that stands opposed to any deep ecumenical approach between the black and white churches of America.

The churches themselves increasingly supported this ecumenical approach as the basis for the culture.

The Vatican II document on the «Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World» has been of crucial significance in the ecumenical approach of a positive character to the redefinition of the forces and values of secular culture within the context of Christian faith and ethics, themselves renewed in the modern context.

Pope John Paul II may have pointed the way toward an ecumenical approach to martyrdom when he recognized both Protestants and Catholics as martyrs in Uganda, where they were killed by the Bagandan kabaka (king) for converting to Christianity.

A less self - serving and probably more ecumenical approach would be for liberals to wait for evangelicals themselves to answer this question.

I'm still working out the details, but hope to join Hugh and Mike (and Shane Claiborne, Phyllis Tickle, Greg Boyd, Brian McLaren, Peter Rollins, Nadia Bolz - Weber, and many others) in Raleigh September 8 - 9 for an event that celebrates a more inclusive, ecumenical approach to Christianity.

During these crusades, Moody pioneered many techniques of evangelism: a house - to - house canvass of residents prior to a crusade; an ecumenical approach enlisting cooperation from all local churches and evangelical lay leaders regardless of denominational affiliations; philanthropic support by the business community; the rental of a large, central building; the showcasing of a gospel soloist; and the use of an inquiry room for those wanting to repent.

Not exact matches

And while unanimity is a long and painful form of consensus to build, if the Ecumenical Patriarch were to take that approach — or at least recognize its validity — he would set his council, and his primacy, on much surer footing.

Metropolitan Alfeyev is weary of metropolitan Zizioulas's account of primacy, which accords to the Ecumenical Patriarch an authority over the Orthodox East which approaches the authority of the pope over the Catholic West.

These different approaches remain as part of the ecumenical discussion.

Some, indeed, many of the most prominent voices in mainline Protestantism seem to have approached ecumenical dialogue this way in recent years.

By sharing her personal experience, Ofelia Ortega describes how Pentecostals have gradually approached the historic Protestant churches through the world ecumenical movement.

Certainly one myth characterized their approach and limited their ecumenical and civil outreach.

Diverse theological approaches and styles give new meaning to the universality of ecumenical goals and vision.

Here was a new approach to the ecumenical faith.

For Catholic theology, the ecumenical movement and the Second Vatican Council have signaled the end of the old «apologetic» approach to revelation.

These short reflections will have to suffice as a first glance into the ecumenical - hermeneutical approach to Leonardo Boff's notion of the Trinity.

Hopeful of securing a broad ecumenical base of support, the Los Angeles Council of Churches was approached, but the needed funding was unavailable, so it was decided to underwrite the support within the American Baptist structure.

The five - pronged approach described above for use by a local church can also be used advantageously by denominational and ecumenical groups in their planning of alcoholism strategy.

I found that Käsemann's approach to the New Testament has been almost totally repudiated by his New Testament successors; that Moltmann stands virtually alone in the Protestant faculty with his interests in liberation theology and the problems of other cultures; and that Küng, though supported by his small group of assistants at his Ecumenical Institute, is officially embraced by neither Catholics nor Protestants.

The assumption was that this approach would remove control of the ecumenical machinery from the hands of laity and parish clergy and place it in the hands of denominational officials.

The combination of chauvinism, mechanism and pietism built into this approach seems to contradict essential elements of the liberal Protestant character, especially its commitments to free and open inquiry, ecumenical theological ventures, and the critical exposure of what Paul Tillich called «distortions» of all kinds, including those built into its own structures.

Thus in 1829 John Henry Newman — still at that stage an Anglican — affirmed that Christians become entitled to the gift of the Holy Spirit «by belonging to the body of his Church; and we belong to his Church by being baptised into it».24 And more than a century later, Michael Ramsay, Archbishop of Canterbury in the 1960s — whose meeting with Paul VI in the 1960s was a central moment in the ecumenical movement of that era — took a generally Catholic approach to baptism, if expressed in a somewhat vague, «Anglican» way: «The life of a Christian is a continual response to the fact of his baptism; he continually learns that he has died and risen with Christ, and that his life is a part of the life of the one family.»