Sentences with phrase «from ancient churches»

Edinburgh's superb architecture ranges from ancient churches to monumental Victorian masterpieces - all dominated by a castle on a precipitous crag in the city's heart.

The canon had been determined by bishops and rabbis and received from the ancient church without question by the Reformers, just as they continued to receive the dogmatic decisions of the ancient councils.

The mutually recognized authority of Scripture served well in the debates with the papacy, but the Reformers and their successors never did a terribly good job of saying why they received what they received from the ancient church.

Not exact matches

This year, the destinations range from ancient ruins in South America to modern wonders in Asia, stunning churches in Italy to town plazas in Spain.

The topics and texts include some esoteric items, such as the ranking of churches and discussion about a common calendar; but they also include problems that emerge from adapting an ancient faith to a modern reality — like precepts of fasting and, in particular, regulations of marriage in a multicultural and interreligious world.

WHY do they believe that their God is so concerned about whether or not they listen to musical instruments in church on Sunday, get dunked or sprinkled in ceremonial water, speak in a tongue as some kind of sign... to whom ever, read from the correct translation of some long lost ancient books, etc, etc?

First of all, the nickname of the LDS Church is «Mormon,» derived from what Mormons believe to be the name of an ancient prophet.

It will be attended by patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops from the fourteen autocephalous Orthodox Churches, including those from all of the ancient patriarchates, with the exception of Rome.

I suspect your church, like all of them, are offshoots of the pagan rituals you all stole from the ancients.

Alexander III, following the ancient tradition of the Church declared that «After a lawfully accorded consent affecting the present, it is allowed to one of the parties, even against the will of the other, to choose a monastery (just as certain saints have been called from marriage), provided that carnal intercourse shall not have taken place between them; and it is allowed to the one who is left to proceed to a second marriage» (III Decretal., xxxii, 2).

«We follow the ancient liturgy of the church (chanting the Kyrie, readings from scripture, chanting the Psalm, sermon, prayers of the people, Eucharist, benediction, etc.) We also sing the old hymns of the church.

The sustained effort to care for the poor that came to characterize the church is derived, Brown suggests, from «an ancient Near Eastern model of justice» mediated through the church's liturgical use of the Old Testament.

The equivaltent to this stoning by ancient Israel is the exclusion from the Church (the spiritual Israel) today, which can also cause the physical death (worst case) of the sinner, which does not want to repent.

I speak throughout Canada and internationally to churches, conferences, women's groups, universities, and workshops on topics ranging from spiritual formation, a sacramental view of living, being a Christian feminist, the ways that we can navigate change throughout our faith journey, the embrace of ancient church practices as a charismatic Christian, writing, social justice, and many other topics.

Gregory took the Church from the ancient world to the beginnings of the Medieval era.

Ancient orthodoxy has provided a starting point on which all parties in the ecumenical conversation could agree, and current Orthodoxy (of the Orthodox churches) has presented an incarnation of the ancient church from which all parties couldAncient orthodoxy has provided a starting point on which all parties in the ecumenical conversation could agree, and current Orthodoxy (of the Orthodox churches) has presented an incarnation of the ancient church from which all parties couldancient church from which all parties could learn.

Finally, if one goes by texts and not anecdotes, the UCC Constitution and Statement of Faith represent who we really claim corporately to be, not to mention the seven recent volumes of The Living Theological Heritage of the United Church of Christ, tracing our lineage from the ancient creeds forward.

The biblical interpretation stands, above all, under the archetype of the covenant, but it is also consonant with the classical theory of natural law as derived from ancient philosophy and handed down by the church fathers.

This article is adapted from a longer essay in Ancient Faith for the Church's Future, edited by Mark Husbands and Jeffrey P. Greenman, lust published by IVP Academic.

Social justice causes, candles in worship services, v - necks and big neck tattoos on worship leaders, screenings of PT Anderson films at church, heavy use of Helvetica font in church bulletins, bald pastors who always wear black clothes from Banana Republic, beer at church barbecues, a renewed interest in corporately reading ancient creeds or prayers, Nooma videos, Sufjan Stevens and everything related to Sufjan Stevens.

They celebrated Easter by bombing an ancient church, and their slave markets list their «property» according to age and religion, with Christian and Êzidî girls from the age of one on sale.

The offices in the Church from Ephesians are are Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor / Teacher and in the ancient church the only offices in the church were Bishop, Pastor and DChurch from Ephesians are are Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor / Teacher and in the ancient church the only offices in the church were Bishop, Pastor and Dchurch the only offices in the church were Bishop, Pastor and Dchurch were Bishop, Pastor and Deacon.

We can't absolve ourselves from the onus that may be on Israel, for example, for its ruthless invasion of ancient Canaan by trying to explain it away, any more than we can absolve ourselves from the catalog of horrors that have resulted from the theocratic pretensions of the church.

Unfortunately, as a former Christian, well acquainted with sin and confession and the whole bloody business of sacrifice to appease Someone who thinks that shows «love,» I question the whole ancient story, all the animals killed, all the trees cut down (for temples and churches and crosses and «holy books») and all the human beings left to feel separated again and again from the universe, Nature, each other and their «gods.»

The grounds on which church authorities resisted the advancing claims of the sciences were in the first place simply that they were at variance with the accepted teachings handed down from ancient times.

Part of the answer is that these ancient events are moments in a living process which includes also the existence of the church at the present day; and another part is that, as Christians believe, in these events of ancient time God was at work among men, and it is from his action in history rather than from abstract arguments that we learn what God is like, and what are the principles on which he deals with men, now as always.

From Karl: As someone who submitted as an adult to an ancient branch of the Christian faith, what do you make of the «emerging church» movement within (primarily) American evangelical and post-evangelical protestantism?

While the ancient formula «Outside the Church no salvation» may lend itself to misunderstanding, we agree that there is no salvation apart from the Church, since to be related to Christ is necessarily to be related, in however full or tenuous a manner, to the Church which is his body.

That anti-humanity tone in churches is a carry - over from ancient Gnositicsm, which saw all things material and earthly as evil, and only what is spiritual and heavenly as good.

From that fateful date the Holy Spirit, speaking through the Pope and the Fathers of the Council (not the periti) told the Church that a new frame was needed, both to safeguard the ancient treasury of the Faith, and to draw forth from that treasury «new» things for this age, as well as the old thiFrom that fateful date the Holy Spirit, speaking through the Pope and the Fathers of the Council (not the periti) told the Church that a new frame was needed, both to safeguard the ancient treasury of the Faith, and to draw forth from that treasury «new» things for this age, as well as the old thifrom that treasury «new» things for this age, as well as the old things.

If you read some of the ancient sermon texts, even from the very beginning of institutional Christianity in the fourth century, you can often read between the lines of these sermons and see that the Bishops and Priests had such people in their congregations, and were cajoling them and guilting them back into conformity, and even sometimes persecuting them for «abandoning Jesus and the church.»

There is overwhelming biblical scholarship for the full equality of women and that the interpretation of scripture to exclude women from roles by gender (rather than gifting) has been found to be rooted in patriarchy, an ancient worldview that became intertwined in the growth and doctrine of the church.

The young Catholic Churches, as they grow, develop a synthesis of faith, culture and life, and so it is a synthesis different from the one developed by the ancient Churches.

The church is organized on the same principles as the original and ancient church of Jesus Christ on the foundation of living apostles and prophets and with priesthood authority from God.

In it, as an ancient prayer from the age of the church fathers puts it, «the mystery of Christ's dispensation is accomplished so far as in us lies.»

The so - called Tridentine rite, of course, far from being «medieval» has roots deep in pre-medieval antiquity (it is in any case a strange view of history in which the Counter-Reformation took place in the middle ages), and is a living manifestation of the Newmanian principle of development, wherebya process of continuous change is inevitable if the essence of the Church's faith is to remain the same: for, as The Catholic Herald pointed out in its admirable leader, the reforms of Pope St Pius V, enshrined in the Missal of 1570, itself containing ancient elements, «were inspired by the Council of Trent.

Mind you, I'm not criticizing the ancient church, or trying to take away from Christ in any way.

The Kingdom of God teaching diffen from both the early Church and ancient Judaism in its use of the key concept, Kingdom of God, and in aspects of its eschatology, where, incidentally, it is in agreement with the eschatology of the parables.

Thus, emerging churches often characterize themselves as «ancient - future,» a phrase that comes from a series of books authored by Webber (Ancient - Future Faith, Ancient - Future Evangelism, Ancient - Futureancient - future,» a phrase that comes from a series of books authored by Webber (Ancient - Future Faith, Ancient - Future Evangelism, Ancient - FutureAncient - Future Faith, Ancient - Future Evangelism, Ancient - FutureAncient - Future Evangelism, Ancient - FutureAncient - Future Time).

The series incorporates contemporary Bible study with the church's most ancient way of reading Scripture, lectio divina, and moves the reader from study (lectio), to reflection (meditatio), to prayer (oratio), to discernment (contemplatio), and action (operatio).

RELEVANT looks at the ancient tradition of Ash Wednesday, drawing lessons from the church calendar and exploring why the day still has meaning for the church today.

Adapted from a lecture on «Preaching in the Early Church» for the Ancient Evangelical Future Conference at Trinity School for Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania.

Hey, Jackie, if it hadn't been for the fact that the Church was there to preserve knowledge from the ancient world through the middle ages, if it hadn't created universities and hospitals, hadn't spread a moral code through a largely barbarian world, you'd still running around as unlettered and brutal as the Visigoths and the Vandals.

A church is technically a term for a gathering of citizens in a town (origins from ancient Greek), but is commonly understood by the Christian adoption of the word as gathering of Christians in a building or structure to facilitate worship and the meeting of its members, specifically in Christianity

Others, like the ancient Pharisees, prompted by equally noble motives, are making valiant efforts to keep the church structures buoyant and active by winning converts from the lost world as occasion offers.

By withdrawing from the Church of Scotland, the Free Church lost any share in the ancient endowments and the existing church faChurch of Scotland, the Free Church lost any share in the ancient endowments and the existing church faChurch lost any share in the ancient endowments and the existing church fachurch fabrics.

The appropriate response to me comes from the ancient prayer of the church: «Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.»

Yet, they were no longer being uprooted totally from their ancient ways in order to enter into the church which the Lady had sent them.

Not long ago, Pope Benedict XVI made a personal donation to the restoration of the Basilica of St. Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, the site of the ancient town of Hippo Regius, where the greatest theologian of the ancient church served as bishop from 395 to 430.

It fits easily in the pocket; it is physically beautiful; it contains the Mass readings for each day of the month; and it also has articles and meditations that supply spiritual reading for each day from a wide range of orthodox sources (fathers, saints and doctors of the Church, mystical writers ancient and modern).