Sentences with phrase «established church in»

C. K. Shipton points out «there never was an established church in Massachusetts, there was no agreed - upon body of dogma, and serious moral deviation was punished by the state, not the church... Many of the normal functions of the established churches in Europe were here transferred to the state.»

Dissenters and democrats united in opposing the established church in American colonies.

Why, for example, was Newman so scathingly critical (even sarcastic) of the Established Church in Anglican Difficulties and yet so genuinely (if moderately) appreciative of the genuine graces given to him during his days as a member of the Church of England in the Apologia?

To be sure, Lewis spoke to a nation with a legally established church in World War II — era Britain.

We are here today because our ancestors fought for religious freedom, braved and explored a new world to establish churches in America and spread the gospel.

He traveled south and converted high caste Hindus and established churches in seven places (Maliankara, Palayur, Parur Gokamangalam, Niranam, Chayal and Quilon) in four of which places Syrian churches still exist.

This alternative response is found primarily in various mainline denominational and interdenominational groups in the United States, and in some of the established churches in Western Europe.

I work with more than one mission agency that has a history of sending workers to minster alongside established churches in other countries.

Not exact matches

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It has gone so far as to call into question the criterion established in Familiaris consortio, which in number 84 says: «The Church reaffirms her practice, which is based upon Sacred Scripture, of not admitting to Eucharistic Communion divorced persons who have remarried.

Before the Muslim conquests (it is interesting that papacy and Islam were established at the same time around 600 a. D.) there was a great Christian Church in the Roman Empire or later Eastern Roman Empire with a lot of free bishops.

«lhe Council established the main elements of Catholic culture as it exists today, and among those elements is the resolute assertion that «There is indeed one universal church of the faithful outside of which nobody at all is saved, in which Jesus Christ is both priest and sacrifice.»

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church broke with Moscow and established its own Patriarchate in Kiev.

The question is whether churches abroad, such as in the United States, Western Europe, and Australasia — comprised of Orthodox immigrants and converts long established in their new homelands, miles away and cultures apart from the «mother Churches, where they originated — have reached the maturity or acquired the single - mindedness and commitment to minister to their people and manage their affairs ichurches abroad, such as in the United States, Western Europe, and Australasia — comprised of Orthodox immigrants and converts long established in their new homelands, miles away and cultures apart from the «mother Churches, where they originated — have reached the maturity or acquired the single - mindedness and commitment to minister to their people and manage their affairs iChurches, where they originated — have reached the maturity or acquired the single - mindedness and commitment to minister to their people and manage their affairs in unity.

This is all the more satisfying a ratification because Connelly is so conscientious in establishing his own personal antagonism toward the Catholic Church (at one point asserting without even a footnote that natural family planning «still fails most couples who try it»).

Similarly, mistranslation of the greek and quoting out of historical, cultural and topical context has turned Paul into a misogynist when in fact he, like his Messiah, were revolutionary in their teachings, establishing in the church God's original design for man (including the restoration of gender equality and proper relations) which was restored through the redemptive work of the cross.

By establishing a ministry that fosters excellence in the arts and gives community members a chance to engage in the arts, you can not only connect with people who might never darken the door of a church, but you can also create art that glorifies God and is truly inspirational.

However much this move might cost in terms of philosophical clarity, it could be defended either as an accommodation to the power of the established church (in England) or to the necessary of popular enlightenment (in America).

If you truly love Jesus and believe that He established the Catholic Church, then you will want to obey Him in all things.

♦ Carl Trueman argues that confessions establish constitutional restraints on church power: «In an age when words, especially words that make truth claims, are always suspected of being part of some manipulative power game, it is perhaps counterintuitive to think of confessions as delimiting the power of the church.

The words in the (one only) gospel (Matthew 6:18) were written in by those who wanted to establish a «church».

We will preside only at those weddings that seek to establish a Christian marriage in accord with the principles articulated and lived out from the beginning of the Church's life.

Madison, a Deistically - influenced Christian who, along with his family, helped establish the Anglican church in the U.S., saw many of this goals for government attained with the ratification of the Consti.tution and the Bill of Rights.

«Given the benchmarks established by international law and universal legitimacy, and in light of the support offered by the Christian Church in the Holy Land, we believe Palestinians should also have a state that they can at long last call home.

Mormons believe their church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) to be a continuation of the Church Jesus established during his mortal ministry, Joseph Smith simply (although it was not simple) restored the church in these latterchurch (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) to be a continuation of the Church Jesus established during his mortal ministry, Joseph Smith simply (although it was not simple) restored the church in these latterChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) to be a continuation of the Church Jesus established during his mortal ministry, Joseph Smith simply (although it was not simple) restored the church in these latterChurch Jesus established during his mortal ministry, Joseph Smith simply (although it was not simple) restored the church in these latterchurch in these latter days.

Protestant churches are actually those that were established in «PROTEST» against the Roman Catholic Church.

In the climate they have established, a number of indigenous denominations unrelated to Western mission agencies in origin (such as the Kimbanguists and other African independent churches, and a number of Pentecostal denominations in Latin America) have become a major forcIn the climate they have established, a number of indigenous denominations unrelated to Western mission agencies in origin (such as the Kimbanguists and other African independent churches, and a number of Pentecostal denominations in Latin America) have become a major forcin origin (such as the Kimbanguists and other African independent churches, and a number of Pentecostal denominations in Latin America) have become a major forcin Latin America) have become a major force.

Churches are the model established for us in scripture.

The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.

While the fundamentalist experience on this question has been quite slow in allowing the ministry of women, lagging far behind the churches of the mainstream, the Wesleyan churches have often been the pioneers of this practice, especially in the nineteenth century when the conservative Wesleyan churches were far in advance of the more established denominations.

For example: «It is truth that today's manly - made churches are in actualities a mimmickery of wanting to establish mankinds» on and upon earth Christendoms being their idolized and adorned perceptions and variations...» This is probably one of the worst word usage I've ever seen.

As someone in his late 40s (I literally ride the line between being a baby boomer and the oldest of the Gen - X crowd), I can appreciate much of what is said in the article, except that instead of the church being old - fashioned, I tend to see it as the church adhering to established sound doctrine and moral principles.

It is truth that today's manly - made churches are in actualities a mimmickery of wanting to establish mankinds» on and upon earth Christendoms being their idolized and adorned perceptions and variations of God's True Kingdom Domains being of our bodies that are God's buildings!

For example I might believe full force that Xenu sent little aliens down here and if that's what I'm convinced is accurate, then I'm a Scientologist regardless of if I attend a church or participate in any established organization directly.

It must have seemed unlikely, in the 1970s, that his modest achievements in Krakow - a vast annual Corpus Christi procession through the city, the great new church at Nowa Huta, a network of social care established for unmarried mothers and others in need, youth gatherings up in the Tatra mountains and in overflowing city churches — would in due course overwhelm official Marxism by sheer force of joyful hope and moral uplift.

An ongoing challenge for church and clergy is to sufficiently establish the significance of scripture in the hearts and minds of believers so that they will attempt the hard work, the life's work, of seeking to understand the Word made Book.

The ensuing battle over the established Lutheran churches resulted in the Saxon Migration to America, which gave rise to my own church, the Lutheran Church — Missouri church, the Lutheran Church — Missouri Church — Missouri Synod.

But the meaning it had for Equiano was a bit different from that assigned to it by our young contemporaries, responsive to calls for «social justice,» and from long - established commitments in the black church.

The Church - which ushered into existence the great universities of Europe, which established hospitals and schools, which pioneered work in medicine and literature and art and music and the exploration of all the natural sciences - is interested in truth.

So that we may accomplish this task, God has established three estates, in which all people exist and find their roles: state, church, and family.

Polanyi places this idea in historical context: «when the supernatural authority of laws, churches and sacred texts had waned or collapsed, man tried to avoid the emptiness of mere self - assertion by establishing over himself the authority of experience and reason.»

Yet, in the fourth Gospel, we are told that when Jesus joined the disciples in the upper room after the resurrection «he breathed on them and said to them, «Receive the Holy Spirit»» (John 20:22), establishing a direct (and almost too obvious) connection between him and the amazing Power of the early church.

He also came to oppose the long - established practice of employing chaplains at public expense in the House of Representatives and Senate on the grounds that it violated the separation of church and state and the principles of religious freedom **.

This was done in a nation with a strong established church, so that the freedom enabled by religious toleration at its origins was a freedom of private worship and belief for dissenters, but not quite a freedom of common action in the public square.

They are more like religious believers under compulsion in a society with an established church than like believers simply denied the freedom to exercise their religion.

Saul of Tarsus was not just some ordinary person he was a Roman citizen, educated by the finest scholars of his day, a zealot for the Jews and you want to make believe he fell for myth, Jesus who his fellow Sanhedrin leaders hated and crucified was a myth, Saul was dispatched to kill those who believed in a myth, Saul witnessed Stephen filled with the Holy Spirit and stood by as Stephen was stoned to death over a myth, Saul later called Paul established the church over a myth, Paul tortured and killed for refusing to reject a myth.

They say the same prayers in church establishing that everyone there believes generally the same thing, and the implication is that the same thing is being established in every meeting that features the same thing.

again there isnothing that is saying joining of church and state in praying during a metting... for it does not ESTABLISH that you have to believe in what they say..

For Christian humanism — faithful in this to the most firmly established theology of the Incarnation — there is no real independence or discordance but a logical subordination between the genesis of humanity in the world and the genesis of Christ, through his Church, in humanity.

The established churches are, by and large, sitting in their holy huddles thinking to themselves, «If only they would come to use so we can «fix» them and they could be lucky, like us.»