Sentences with phrase «episcopal ministry»

«The Constitution on the Church has notably treated the episcopal ministry in chapter three, and explained its meaning starting with the fundamental concept of the collegium.

In this sense, the episcopal ministry derives from the one Church and leads into it.»

This concept, which only marginally appears in tradition, serves to illustrate the interior unity of the episcopal ministry.

It would underline the importance of the Word of God, episcopal ministry, etc. as constituting the essential ingredients of the local church.

In early April of this year, a group of students and others active in the Episcopal ministry at Michigan State University and I attended a Province V, essentially the mid-west region of the United States, conference for Episcopal college / university students and chaplains.

But like Jenson he draws the link to trinitarian theology and the unity of the ministry: «Episcopal ministry is an ecclesiological necessity if we want to move beyond congregationalism.»

I encountered Maritain in this his last book while studying for the Episcopal ministry in 1969.

Not exact matches

Years ago, the Episcopal chaplain at Yale asked me what I thought he should do to attract students to his ministry.

I have worked entirely within the Episcopal Church, within a traditional set - up of parochial ministry.

Bolles is himself an Episcopal priest; this ministry arose out of a project he was asked to do by the national Episcopal Church to help priests who were «becoming civilians.»

An finally, I will say, quoting an Episcopal priest I know, the Good News is — no, the Great News is not that Jesus came to earth to have his ministry, but indeed, that He is here.

Dr. Briggs was found guilty in 1893 and suspended from the Presbyterian ministry, but he continued to teach at Union and became a clergyman in the Episcopal Church.

Some of my Episcopal friends tell me that episcopacy is not a name for a particular kind of church constitution (as Presbyterians might suppose), but rather an understanding of representative authority and responsibility in ministry vested in a college of «sacramental persons» — an understanding compatible with a wide range of constitutional theories and structures.

Thus, while it would be «episcopal» in the sense of joining together those from every participating body who represented the reality and continuity of apostolic faith, ministry and sacraments in that body, the council should include representatives of all participating ministries: presbyteral, diaconal and lay.

The group cites as forerunners Dennis Bennett at St. Mark's Church — despite his Episcopal affiliation — and pastor Louis Evans Jr. who introduced charismatic ministries in 1963 at Bel Air Presbyterian Church outside Los Angeles.

(The following statements are somewhat characteristic of such schools: Bethany Theological Seminary affirms that its object is «to promote the spread and deepen the influence of Christianity by the thorough training of men and women for the various forms of Christian service, in harmony with the principles and practices of the Church of the Brethren»; Augustana Theological Seminary «prepares students for the ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church with the special needs of the Augustana Church in view»; the charter of Berkeley Divinity School begins, «Whereas sundry inhabitants of this state of the denomination of Christians called the Protestant Episcopal Church have represented by their petition addressed to the General Assembly, that great advantages would accrue to said Church, and they hope and believe to the interests of religion and morals in general, by the incorporation of a Divinity School for the training and instructions of students for the sacred ministry in the Church aforementioned.»)

Continuing specialized ministries under church auspices have been maintained for many years by the Episcopal Church, a number of Lutheran bodies and most other denominations in greater or lesser degree.

How did the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation in southwest Atlanta, a neighborhood with a growing African - American population, re-invent itself by establishing a communitywide «niche» ministry?

In statement released after being updated by staff at the Al Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza, a ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, Archbishop Justin said: «You can't look at the pictures coming from Gaza and Israel without your heart breaking.

I «hang out» as an «active non-member» at a local Episcopal Church in NC because most of the people there respect personal boundaries, but, having lived for 18 months in West Africa in the early 60's, I am an enthusiastic admirer of Mother Teresa and her ministry to the poor in a non-Western culture.

And you keep hearing, years on end, even on thatSunday you sit in the parking lot of the small Episcopal church after the Baptist - based ministry you felt God call you to do has crumbled, and you are so vacant and so wavering that you tell God you're done, you're empty, and God tells you to walk into church.

The circles end up in cornfields belonging to Graham Hess (Mel Gibson), a former Episcopal priest who has resigned his ministry and nurses a grudge toward God.

Here was suggested the very center of the evangelical conception of the ministry — something quite different from the English episcopal view.

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