Sentences with phrase «established churches there»

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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.»

I just wonder if there is any real way to compel them to come back to an established church where we are, hopefully, trying to reset our direction.

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.

If this principle is applied also to those who do not practice their faith, hence have no real relation to the community Church of faith, then the actual number of priests must, indeed, give the impression of a shortage, for there are not even enough priests for all the established parishes and Mass centres.

But apart from these there is also the fact that the Church in much of the traditionally Christian world is still on the way from being an established Church (that is, a social institution to which all more or less belong) to a Church of personal faith in a pluralistic society.

Nothing prevented «free» churches from being organized where there were already established churches.

In the East, the South, and the Midwest, even among persons who have no individual experience of these churches, there remains an established culture shaped by the earlier preeminence of these churches.

On the basis of new historical evidences available, it is possible to establish the fact that there was a Christian church in Edessa (Western Mesopotamia) in the first century, and not only there but also in other places in Mesopotamia.

The first thing they did whenever they wished to stop at a particular place, was to erect a tabernacle or temple to their false god for the duration of the time they expected to stay there, and they built this temple in the middle of the site on which they had established themselves, the ark being placed upon an altar such as is used in a church, for the idol wished to imitate our religion in many ways, as we shall afterwards show.10

Today, however, on the basis of new historical evidences available, it is possible to establish the fact that there was indeed a Christian church in Edessa in the first century; not only in Edessa but also in other places in Mesopotamia.

There's a risk that some established churches might mistake the suppression of emotions caused by grief for dignity.

By criticizing these two positions I am seeking to establish that, insofar as we are committed to genuine renewal in the churches that we represent, there are no short - cuts; we must begin with basics.

Yes, the program is run through churches, where there are already established volunteers to hand out the supplies to anyone that is in need.

There are many Christians for whom the sacramental life of the Church and the Holy Communion would have power beyond anything they can at present imagine if a genuine connection should be established in their understanding between the Sacrament and the mutual ministry which is going on all the time in the life of the Church.

Because it was so important to the commerce of the ancient world, many different kinds of people settled there and found their way into the church Paul had established.

The only movement there should be is the «separation of church and state movement» — why is the idea of «God» so pervasive when the government is not supposed to establish a religion?

There are plenty of moral idealists in the church who confuse the issue by thinking that they can establish justice in a simple manner.

«There may come a point if there is litigation in Europe that the Church of England is faced with giving up its duty to marry everyone and therefore its established status is undermined — that's an instability that's been created,» says There may come a point if there is litigation in Europe that the Church of England is faced with giving up its duty to marry everyone and therefore its established status is undermined — that's an instability that's been created,» says there is litigation in Europe that the Church of England is faced with giving up its duty to marry everyone and therefore its established status is undermined — that's an instability that's been created,» says Hart.

Thus there is nothing that can separate the union between Christ and the Church, that is the people who are established within the Church and who steadfastly and faithfully persevere in their beliefs: Christ and His Church must remain ever attached and joined to each other by indissoluble love.

And the simple fact is that in an era when nearly everyone assumed that communism had come to stay, it was not simply a few isolated Polish Catholic priests like Wielgus whobelieved that there had to be some degree of cooperation with the institutional manifestations of communism; it was the Church at the very highest level of all, in Rome itself: for the assumption that communism was a permanent reality and therefore had to be dealt with was the very foundation of Paul VI's Ostpolitik, the most famous and the most ignoble manifestation of which was Pope Paul's betrayal (there is no other word) of the Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty, who was stripped of all his offices and replaced by a Hungarian Primate whose remit (faithfully accomplished) was to establish cordial relations with the communist regime of the deeply unsavoury Janos Kadar.

Their subsequent editing — and purging — were done with the sole purpose of establishing a hierarchical church structure, and much of what's left is there because it drives that point home.

Apart from the ecclesiastical relationship that had been established with the Persian church, there were at least two important waves of immigration of Persian Christians to India, one in the fourth century and the other in the ninth century, which strengthened the already existing communities in India.

But in the case of the East Syrian (Persian) church, there came into existence some sort of ecclesiastical relationship between it and the Indian church from a very early date, though it is difficult to say when this relationship was established.

Let me state that It started by establishing that we Christians are the church — it's not a building — there are 400 + Christians denominations all claiming to be right & that one should join their particular church & get with their program.

Whether formulated by Durkheim (a system of beliefs and practices related to sacred things), by Weber (that which finally makes events meaningful), or by Tillich (whatever is of ultimate concern) religion in its «classical» sense refers not so much to labels on a church building as to the imagery (myth, theology, and so forth) by which people make sense of their lives — their «moral architecture,» if you will.6 That human beings differ in their sensitivity to and success in this matter of «establishing meaning» there can be no doubt.

There are indeed situations in which withdrawal of missionaries may be in the best interests of the Christian mission — for instance, where the sociopolitical setup of a particular country or area is utterly contrary to the gospel and where the established church is identified with the status quo.

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.»

Similarly, they did not merely say there should be separation of church and state; rather, they actually separated them by (1) establishing a secular government on the power of «We the people» (not a deity), (2) saying nothing to connect that government to god (s) or religion, (3) saying nothing to give that government power over matters of god (s) or religion, and (4), indeed, saying nothing substantive about god (s) or religion at all except in a provision precluding any religious test for public office.

If there should be a place having a few faithful men in it, before the multitude sufficiently increase to vote (psephisasthai), who shall be able to make a dedication to pious uses for the bishop to the extent of twelve men, let them write to the churches round about them, informing them of the place in which the multitude of the faithful [assemble and] are established that their chosen men in that place may come, that they may examine with diligence him who is worthy of this grade.119

Since God's reign was immediately at hand, Jesus could not have established a church or appointed ministers for a long period of time; there were no sacraments in Judaism, therefore references to the Church or its life are not part of the original teaching of church or appointed ministers for a long period of time; there were no sacraments in Judaism, therefore references to the Church or its life are not part of the original teaching of Church or its life are not part of the original teaching of Jesus.

(This might change if there was a requirement that the state permit same - sex marriage and the church in question were established.)

At the event, Mr Gove commented, «I think there may have been a danger that the Church clung to the 1944 settlement [which established the modern «faith» school system] because they thought, essentially, «The sea of faith is withdrawing, but this is a firm boundary.

The DfE have not listed this as having a «faith ethos», but given the role played by BCCS in establishing the school, it seems that there will be some Church of England influence.

It is one of the most well - established church dating sites out there.

The two became friends and traveled together, including trips to Mount Khatahdin in Maine and a camp that Church established there.

Your last sentence is oversimplified, to say the least; there are many civil law countries (such as the UK) that have established churches.

In England, where there was an established church, the established Anglican Church historically did have a right to intervene in certain ways in the criminal justice process (e.g. the «privilege of clergy&rachurch, the established Anglican Church historically did have a right to intervene in certain ways in the criminal justice process (e.g. the «privilege of clergy&raChurch historically did have a right to intervene in certain ways in the criminal justice process (e.g. the «privilege of clergy»).