Sentences with phrase «ecumenical community»

Any movement to undermine our candidates will not be viewed favorably in the ecumenical community.»

Ecumenical hermeneutics — as formulated in part I in dialogue with the FO study paper — seeks understanding and agreement with a view to creating and deepening Christian ecumenical community.

His broad brush often covers the whole evangelical movement, but here and there he suggests that «in the ecumenical community of the church the evangelical tradition is an honored member» and that «its views of conversion, of personal salvation and so on constitute a source of riches.»

Hosted by the Mount Tabor Centre for Art and Spirituality and held in the monastic context of the ecumenical Community of Jesus, the retreat will include lectures and slide presentations covering the topics of Art & Life, Art & Faith, Art & Prayer and Art & Communion.

Nonetheless, the initial impact of Bonhoeffer's death was felt less in his native Germany than in the international ecumenical community.

The 1937 Oxford Conference «Church, Community, and State» of the Life and Work movement brought together many representatives of the ecumenical community.

Not exact matches

The great setback has been with the oldline Protestant communities, with which the ecumenical movement of the twentieth century began.

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».

«At the bottom of this is the humility of the Crucified, which will always be contrasted by the great powers of the world, but which generates a real hope that is manifested in the creative vitality of the Church: in her communities and her movements, in the new responsibility of the laity, in ecumenical relations, in liturgical and spiritual experiences.

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.

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.

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.

Elsewhere, so do Catholic Worker houses, ecumenical L'Arche communities, and the «new monastic» communities of young urban evangelicals.

The Catholic News Agency quotes him as follows: ««The main problem that we have today in the ecumenical dialogue with all the Protestant» communities... is the lack of «a common vision of the goal of the ecumenical movement.

But the fact is that the media coverage of the declaration Dominus Iesus (The Lord Jesus), issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) in September, was almost uniformly negative, as was the reaction of the several communities engaged in ecumenical dialogue with the Catholic Church.

And whoever speaks of Taizé is bound to speak of Roger Schutz (1915 - 2005), whose intuitions and initiatives turned the community into a focus and center of the ecumenical movement.

He largely left the theological debates and disputes to Max Thurian, the subprior of the community, while he sought through personal contacts to win the council fathers to the cause of the ecumenical movement.

This church has identified itself as a Christian Community Church and believes that it is on the cutting edge of ecumenical Christianity by being «post-denominational».

Most denominational and ecumenical groups have only scratched the surface of their opportunity in the area of community mental health.

Such a form better incorporates the findings of the past 30 years of ecumenical debate on «place,» community and eucharistic fellowship.

The question being asked by women is whether the Decade will invite «the churches and the ecumenical movement to discover and nurture an enriched understanding of the very nature and mission of the church... growing from and supporting a new community, embodying the visions of all persons...,» as the Readers Group describe it in their interim report.

This church has identified itself as a Christian Community Church and believes that it is on the cutting edge of ecumenical 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.

The ecumenical focus has shifted from church unity, from reconciling the historic communities, to the service of the world, and therefore away from the kind of ecumenism that has been my chief concern.

the shift has been away from Freudian, Rogerian and Nietzschean values, especially individualistic selfactualization and narcissistic self - expression, and toward engendering durable habits of moral excellence and covenant community; methodologically away from modern culture - bound individuated experience and toward the shared public texts of Scripture and ecumenical tradition; politically away from trust in regulatory power and rationalistic planning to historical reasoning and a relatively greater critical trust in the responsible free interplay of interests in the marketplace of goods and ideas.

The aim was consciously ecumenical, following the directive laid down by Pope John XXIII for the Church to make clear its teachings in those essential matters so as to make itself more understandable to the separated Churches of the Orthodox and the ecclesial communities of the Reformation.

In his address to the conference, Henry Smith Leiper said, «And because of what we have seen of the dependence of the world mission on the Church, we who have had active service in the mission field know that as truly as a world mission without an urge to unity is unthinkable, a Christian Church without a consciousness of world mission ought to be also unthinkable».30 He then added, «am ecumenical movement without a sense of world mission to spread that community is a complete anomaly.

On the road of the Church's missionary obedience, the Holy Spirit will reveal the form of ecumenical organization which is most in harmony with the reality of the Church as a world community which seeks to be loyal to its mission and unity.43

Following the Santiago recommendations, the study deals with three aspects of an ecumenical hermeneutics: the quest for the One Tradition in the many traditions (part A, paras. 14 - 37) 8; the quest for the One Gospel in the many contexts (part B, paras. 38 - 48); and the Church as hermeneutical community in matters of discernment, the exercise of authority and reception (part C, paras. 49 - 66).

It also seeks to explore the significance of the Ecumenical Movement as an expression of the «hermeneutical community» of the Church and to formulate criteria for discernment.

The present ecumenical movement, and here we include the meeting of Christians and Jews, and the meeting of the Christian community with other religious communities, has an authentic element of charity within it.

These include»... the revalidation of the bishop's role; the importance of regional episcopal collegiality; ecumenical reflection on the differences compatible with unity; challenges of inculturation;... (the need for) genuine community in a world of increased anonymity and bureaucracy...» (20)

Taizé is an ecumenical monastic community founded in 1940 by Roger Schutz.

The decisive ecumenical consideration is whether two churches agree on those things that make a community a church.

Yet the modern ecumenical movement has almost completely failed to attain its one overriding goal: the reunion of divided Christian communities.

... The need to recover baptismal unity is at the heart of the ecumenical task as it is central for the realization of genuine partnership within the Christian communities.

The Eucharist is by ecumenical consensus the corporate act in which «the community of God's people is manifested,» and it is of crucial importance that the identity - defining rite of the Christian community is precisely a rite of remembrance, an act in which the many are united in a common turning in the Spirit to one in particular, to the Palestinian Jew Jesus, through whose life and in whose person the salvation of the God of Israel is confessed to have been conclusively bestowed on humankind.

In the ecumenical discussions and experience, churches with their diverse confessions and traditions and in their various expressions as parishes, monastic communities, religious orders, etc., have learned to recognize each other as participants in the one worldwide missionary movement.

The great denominational schools of America are among the first to admit this; but few of them are in a position to press their perception of the diversity of the Christian community as systematically, as hourly, as are the great ecumenical seminaries.

Like the pastoral letters on economics produced by America's Roman Catholic bishops nearly two decades ago, such ecumenical social teaching would not prescribe specific policy choices, but it would insist that concern for the common good and the building up of community are requirements for any economic system.

Evangelical networks have always made this larger community possible, and ecumenical engagement merely extends the community to Catholics and Orthodox.

Here, in fact, we may be in the presence of one of the most necessary of all Devils: the Ecumenical Unifier, champion of all efforts to remove invidious distinctions between nature and nurture, body and spirit, interdiction and impulse, time and eternity, individual and community, male and female, Hell and Heaven — and ultimately, of course, between man and God.

Abrecht (1984) is one of many ecumenical leaders who judge that no ecumenically organized reflection on theology and social ethics has matched the quality and thoroughness of the 1937 meeting of the WCC on «Church Community and State in Relation to the Economic Order» and its report of that title.

My prayer was «ecumenical» in that I thanked God for the many blessings that have flown into the human community from these three faith traditions, but I did end the prayer, as I always do, in the name of Jesus.

I've asked our writers — Timothy George, Thomas Guarino, and Carl Trueman — to offer a fresh retrospect over the intervening years, to take stock of the ecumenical situation as it involves both Evangelical and Catholic communities, and to reflect on its development up to the present day.

These communities stress their exclusive religious claims and have little interest in ecumenical consensus.

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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 creatCommunity 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 creatcommunity 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.

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