Sentences with phrase «ecumenical group of»

She suggested contacting Young Life, an ecumenical group of college students working with high schoolers.

Given the way the culture wars divide religious folk among themselves on the question of how to respond to modernity, it was only a matter of time before the conservative Christian effort was matched by one from an ecumenical group of Christians and Jews.

In 1975 Richard and I convened a remarkably ecumenical group of theologians to issue what we called the Hartford Appeal, which was a strongly worded repudiation of the political misappropriation of the gospel.

Evolution and the Fall is a collection of essays from a multi-disciplinary and ecumenical group of authors, which sets out to address «a set of problems that arise from the encounter of traditional biblical views of human origins with contemporary scientific theories» (p. xv)-- not, one might add, in general, to answer them.

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Will we see a condemnation of separatist groups and a new commitment to ecumenical openness?

Photo: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and his clergy with an international group of 30 Orthodox scholars.

As a sign of such openness, the Ecumenical Patriarchate organized a special meeting of a select group of thirty Orthodox scholars at its headquarters in Istanbul, the Phanar district on January 5, 2016.

That is why the intense groups are growing; that is why the Jehovah's Witnesses and the fundamentalist branches of the born - again movement outstrip the ecumenical - minded folk who let members keep their ties to the best colleges and the lures of a pluralistic culture.

There were conflicts and Controversies between different groups within the ecumenical movement as well as outside of it.

He met with interfaith groups, and gave new life to the Church's ecumenical mission, but also paid tribute to the unique virtues of Catholicism, honoring two of its greatest sons, Thomas More and John Henry Newman.

Good works of proper kinds, ecumenical engagements, discussions with captive groups of Christian laymen of all kinds — yes.

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

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.

Our group was weary of such distinctions as «evangelical» versus «ecumenical,» These two emphases can not be separated.

In the lay academies of the continent, the «house churches» of Britain, the ecumenical retreat centers in the U. S. and elsewhere, in denominational and local church camps, youth assemblies, parent education and Bible study groups, hundreds of persons are discovering the excitement of life - to - life communication in small groups.

As one of the five groups involved in the study, the response of the Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs evinces a certain embarrassment.

Growth groups are being used increasingly with college students in ecumenical student religious centers, in psychology and human relations courses, in training of dorm counselors, and in college guidance programs.

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.

The Faith Alive group in Southampton has in the past decade initiated Alpha courses, an ecumenical programme sharing ideas about leadership, formation and outreach methods with other denominations, a city guildhall event with a Catholic inspirational speaker and prayer teams, a city mission, an introductory programme for «new seekers», that is people interested in the Church and who might wish to continue with the RCIA, displays outside a church on a main road and a manned gazebo to provide information and resources to passers - by during the papal visit, and the Anchor catecheticscourse making use of the «way of beauty» for evangelising parishioners, seen as a primary target.

Group coherence came from the fear of the Catholic or secularist menaces, and when the leadership turned ecumenical and open to God's activity beyond the walls of the churches, they sapped themselves of certain energies.

In 1975 there appeared in Germany a book entitled: The Berlin Ecumenical Manifesto, on the Utopian Vision of the World Council of Churches, edited by Walter Kunneth and Peter Beyerhaus.34 The book attacked not only the World Council of Churches but also the Lutheran World Federation, World Student Christian Federation, certain Roman Catholic groups, the German Evangelical Kirchentag, Taize, and to some extent even Lausanne.35 According to H. Berkof, the common thread through all the articles in the book was the desire to demonstrate that the World Council of Churches no longer sought to proclaim the Gospel throughout the world, but strove rather for a purely horizontal, social and political, humanization and unification of mankind by means of religious pluralism and syncretism.

Some of the most impressive evangelism and justice ministry is being carried out by ecumenical groups outside of denominational affiliation and power structures.

Consequently, one sad result of the integration was that several of the evangelical groups, who were associated with the International Missionary Council, and through it with the ecumenical movement as a whole, now felt alienated from the ecumenical movement as represented by the World Council of Churches.

The ecumenical movement has stimulated many discussions of ministry that face forthrightly the differences among Christian groups, almost always held by each group to be consequent upon its theory of the church.

If the churchyard is big enough, and the congregation is ecumenical enough, there could be a space set aside for Jews, Muslims, and other religious groups, that don't want their dead to be intermixed with non-members of their belief system.

«Churches and persons involved at present in the World Council of Churches» life and work can learn much from the above mentioned groups; and, on the other hand, these groups need the correction and support of the ecumenical fellowship».41

An Ecumenical Interpretation,, a study document commissioned and received by the Joint Working Group of the Roman Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches in 1990.

At the Lund Conference on Faith and Order these elements of particularist group loyalties were identified, too simply I believe, as «non-theological factors» which have to be taken into account in ecumenical understanding.

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.

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.

If the influence of church groups is to make a contribution in relation to the federal mental health and alcoholism programs (in the U.S.), it will have to be expressed through ecumenical channels.

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.

Gregorios correctly warns against a «Committee Theology» and writes that «at the moment the ecumenical dialogue has not progressed to the point where a group of theologians can sit down and write an «ecumenical theology» that is vital and coherent.»

The Ecumenical Institute of the World Council of Churches at the Chateau de Bossey near Geneva has as one of its major functions the bringing together of groups of people of a common profession — Christian doctors, lawyers, educators, industrialists, political leaders — for a week or ten days of mutual probing of the applications of Christian faith to their vocations.

The ecumenical nature of the student group and faculty helps to broaden the understanding of the student.

An ecumenical group, Media Action Research Center (MARC), has set up programs in Television Awareness Training (TAT) to help people become more alert to the effects of that medium.

Such student groups are ecumenical; Catholic priests and Jewish rabbis as well as Protestants of all theological persuasions are accepted.

He belongs to a group of Christian thinkers and activists who have risen to ecumenical leadership through the Youth Movement of the Central Kerala Diocese of the Church of South India.

During his U.S. visit he was hosted by five governors and a lieutenant governor, a passel of universities and social - change groups, and — with fine ecumenical sense — the heads of several large corporations.

Groups as diverse as the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, the Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon, the American Islamic Congress,...

Groups as diverse as the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, the Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon, the American Islamic Congress, the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland, the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, the Sikh American Legal Defence and Education Fund and the Anti-Defamation League supported repealing the law.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

One of the problems is that, in spite of efforts by such ecumenical leaders as M. M. Thomas (the Reinhold Niebuhr of Asian Christianity), who has been closely associated with the activist groups, most have not been able to, or have not been interested in, clarifying the theological bases of their action.

Some Anglo - Catholics have left the Anglican communion to join new groups professing to be orthodox Anglicanism, many others are entering into full communion with Rome, and Rome has declared that disappointments and setbacks require a redoubling of ecumenical effort.

ibis difficulty with God's name was brought out in an experiment with a group of second - graders in an ecumenical setting who were being taught about the Jewish faith.

To make an impact in the forthcoming 2019 general election, therefore, what the youths urgently need is the creation of innovative ideas that electorates can buy into, building of alliances / coalition with various pressure groups and being ecumenical in movement with already existing coalitions or political parties.

Currently groups are meeting in a variety of settings and geographic areas: River's Edge, Carnegie West Library, the Galleria, the Catholic Diocese Headquarters, Preterm, Gates Mills Library, Unitarian Universalist churches in Shaker Heights, Akron and Kent, and a Hudson Ecumenical group.

As we shall see, while there is often a lack of homogeneity, and some individuals or groups have no name or special identity, they (by their own admission or by descriptions given by others) often fall into the following descriptions: Detaxers; Freemen or Freemen - on - the - Land; Sovereign Men or Sovereign Citizens; Church of the Ecumenical Redemption International (CERI); Moorish Law; and other labels — there is no closed list.

As we shall see, while there is often a lack of homogeneity, and some individuals or groups have no name or special identity, they (by their own admission or by descriptions given by others) often fall into the following descriptions: Detaxers; Freemen or Freemen - on - the - Land; Sovereign Men or Sovereign Citizens; Church of the Ecumenical Redemption International (CERI); Moorish Law; and other labels...

• Organized worship services in innovative and ecumenical ways • Offered religious and divine guidance to patients, residents, employees, and managers • Participated in groups and conferences to enhance the continuity of care to patients • Established constructive working relationships with all members of the health team in addition to the volunteers • Kept records as required • Started and maintained contact with area clergy through discussion