Sentences with phrase «fact establishes the church»

The Word of God in Christ, primarily declared in the Church's kerygma, is what in fact establishes the Church.

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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.

It could be pointed out that the Church's magisterium can establish what are termed «dogmatic facts», that the Church can infallibly know that a particular human being is in heaven, and so on.

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.

I left the established churches twenty years ago and an Evangelical free church ten years ago.I think I have always been kind to others, others say so but i became very ill, still am struggling with health issues, and church people lost interest and in fact then through neglect made me worse.

In the Catholic Church, it should be noted, establishing and evaluating the historical facts is only one step in an evaluation of this topic.

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.

In fact, a vaguely conscious English person of 2016 probably associates the Established Church much more with sex than with God.

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.

Churches, when once established, live at second hand upon tradition; but the founders of every church owed their power originally to the fact of their direct personal communion with the divine.

All of these items — Jesus» Nazareth origin, his baptism by John, the Galilean locale of his ministry, his execution by the Gentiles — are examples of facts of which we can be especially sure because later interests and beliefs of the churches would have led to a denial of them if they had not been well authenticated and firmly established.

This strange roomer got into and established himself in the living room of church practice in roughly the following way: that people do worship God is an observable fact; and every fact is permeable to psychological inquiry.

In this the church is wrong, so far as the death and resurrection of Jesus are understood merely as given facts of history which may be determined and established by evidence.

That fact is the divinely - established basis of community, namely, the divine creation of the Church.

The entire tone of these rules, in fact, is to praise not only the Church's unchanging faith, but also her established discipline and devotional practices that were in many places under attack in the sixteenth century.

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.

For Niebuhr, that fact establishes the relationship between theological schools and the church.

It is an inescapable fact that when free - church men and established - church men undertake to frame a joint statement about the relations of church and state, they can come to agreement only by a studied ambiguity or by a cautious avoidance of controversial aspects of the question.

So also to the Creed were added the Holy Spirit, the Church, and the Communion of Saints, all of them closely related because all of them are ways of saying that he who commits himself to Christ commits himself also to that community established through Christ's coming, where the fact of Salvation is known and experienced and men are empowered from God by a Spirit which is given to them, a Spirit that is indeed so personal in operation that no longer can we call the Spirit «that» or «which,» but must call the Spirit «Who» or «He.»

Leonard J. Trinterud established the fact that covenant theology was operative before Calvin's Institutes and that it was present in English divinity as early as William Tyndale, whom many regard as the first English Puritan; see Trinterud's «The Origins of Puritanism,» Church History 20 (1951): 37 - 57.

When John Wesley traveled all over England, declaring the gospel of Christ in the fields and on the village commons, in the streets of large towns and in public places in the countryside, he was still acting as an ordained minister of the Church and he was still preaching in the Church — although the authorities of the Established Church of England, regrettably, did not seem willing to recognize what should have been a patent and wonderful fact.

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