Sentences with phrase «enduring significance even»

In looking back and examining such documents, one does so not out of some kind of antiquarian curiosity, but because the issues and themes with which the writers and theologians of the early church wrestled with are of enduring significance even for the self - understanding of the church today.

[8] In looking back and examining such documents, one does so not out of some kind of antiquarian curiosity, but because the issues and themes with which the writers and theologians of the early church wrestled with are of enduring significance even for the self - understanding of the church today.

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The Western Protestant experience, which included church splits and the formation of new denominations on the basis of national, ethnic and class differences — as well as differences of doctrine, sacramental practice and biblical interpretation — had been exported to the mission fields, where many of these differences seemed to be of even less enduring significance than they were at home.

Even if they do the inclusion is an artefact, not anything that has any enduring significance.