Sentences with phrase «from confessional»

Secure in the knowledge that no one knew he was there, and standing so still and quiet that he hardly could hear himself breathe, he watched from the confessional as Monsignor Ferris went about the rounds of securing the church for the night.

This is a notion which stems specifically from confessional Christianity.

Whether or not the opportunity is used depends on the minister's sensitivity to the problems which lurk behind surface disturbances and his ability to help his parishioner move from the confessional to the counseling relationship.

Not exact matches

There is some truth to the online confessional claim, but from a business perspective, it's an asset not yet capitalized on.

In this respect the new orthodoxy is very much like earlier forms of orthodoxy that sought to serve the church from within a very particular confessional stance.

And the LCMS held an «International Conference on Confessional Leadership» last year in Atlanta, Georgia, with more than 120 Lutheran church leaders from around the world attending.

Given the difficulties of really working through such an issue within the synod, the seminary faculty took refuge in a second answer to the authority question: What was binding upon the synod's pastors and theological professors was the collection of Lutheran Confessional writings from the sixteenth century (gathered in the Book of Concord).

A few weeks after delivering his confessional sermon, Gyorke organized a Sunday event at his church intended to help keep congregants away from pornography.

Notwithstanding this reviewer's Protestant evangelical confessional commitments, there are difficulties with the attempt to ground the thesis of moral decay and reconstruction in lessons from the sixteenth century.

Catholics believe that praying in a confessional box to a priest absolves them from their sins.

A pastor is too busy leading people in worship to attend workshops on how to lead people in worship, and his duties in the confessional prevent him from attending seminars on how to hear confessions.

Since my early days as assistant at my teacher Edmund Schlink's Ecumenical Institute at Heidelberg and afterward during many years of regular ecumenical discussions, especially with Roman Catholic theologians, I became increasingly aware that Christian theology today should not limit itself to some narrowly defined confessional loyalty inherited from the past but should help to build the foundations of a reunited, if to some degree pluralistic, Christian church that should become more and more visible within the foreseeable future.

Like Jacob wrestling with the angel, many feminist theologians are «taking back» their confessional traditions, refusing to let them go until they wrestle a feminist blessing from them.

And Oz takes pride in almost confessional responses to his book from Orthodox readers.

While personal relationships could form across confessional lines» families hired servants from other communities, for example» and while some religious leaders encouraged respect and compassion for members of other faiths, the relationship among Christians, Muslims, and Jews was hardly a model of cooperation.

In closing, I would just also say that there is Lutheran blogger from Brazil on the internet, who is gay and very confessional.

Not that I enjoyed recalling misdeeds from 2010, or that I wasn't nervous when I stepped away from the parishioners in the middle of Mass that morning in St. Vincent Ferrer and entered the dark quiet of the confessional.

If there's one thing we've learned from the evaporation of mainline Protestantism, it's that theological identity provides the basis of confessional discipleship and spiritual fellowship.

From a purely utilitarian standpoint, however, the failure of the state to respect the integrity of the confessional seal is a foolish blunder.

It also shows how it is able, because of this, to achieve the critical freedom which is related to the history of social freedom... The Biblical traditions and the doctrinal and confessional formulae that are derived from these traditions appear in the light of this interpretation as formulae of memoria.

COI is protestant in that it greatly differing theological views from the RCC (including Eucharistic practices, the ordination of married men women and openly gay men / women, lack of confessionals, or holy water, and the liturgy is quite different as well).

Rice, in his book, citing Pope Benedict XVI, countered that the need to protect all human life from conception to natural death is innate to human nature and confirmed by faith: «The Church's action in promoting them is therefore not confessional in character, but is addressed to all people, prescinding from any religious affiliation they may have.»

She also took from her religious training a confessional impulse, on display in three memoirs and her debut work of fiction, The Company She Keeps.

Lancaster was home to England's first «religious studies» department, in the sense that theology was taught there from a critical rather than a confessional perspective.

Still in draft form, the Code of Conduct commits signatories to faithful compliance with Charitable Choice; to straightforward and consistent communication about their religious identity among their volunteers, service beneficiaries, donors and government partners; to refraining from using government funding for «confessional activities»; to winsome and gentle witness; to love of neighbor; to freedom from religious coercion; to nondiscrimination toward program participants; to faithfulness to their mission; to credible and objective evaluation procedures; to avoidance of «turf wars» with other FBOs and nonprofits; and to rigorous financial accountability.

As Pelikan points out, the confessional texts from just the one German province of Franconia in the decade between 1520 and 1530 add up to more than 500 pages.

Pelikan doesn't quite agree — he cites the Apostles» Creed, for instance, as having emerged from baptismal confessions without a primary focus on any particular heresy — but he does readily concede that polemics against heresies are an important reason for the emergence of confessional statements.

With John the balance clearly shifts from the narrational pole toward the confessional pole even if the narrative framework of the Gospel is retained.

The bits of confessional introspection which he elicits from his patient show that the search is metaphysical.

The most quick and living way is simply to muster, for the evocative and response - begetting power they have, a miscellany from man's general confessional.

If the state is allowed to insert itself into the confessional in order to gain information on child abuse, then how can the state be prevented from also demanding information from clergy on other crimes such as murder or conspiracy?

Growing religious diversity and the loosening of confessional orthodoxy have meant that Americans can no longer expect to deal with public political questions from a common theological perspective.

He can confess his sins all he likes in the confessional, but without repentance there can be no forgiveness from God — and he will never repent, he's too proud.

The professors enjoy the status of civil servants and in that sense are one step removed from direct ecclesiastical control; but their primary responsibilities are clear, and all theological work is done in a distinct confessional mold.

Christian churches as well as communities of other faiths can not be faithful to their vocation without the freedom and right to maintain their institutional form and confessional identity in a society and to transmit their faith from one generation to another.

Confessional traditions still tend to appeal dogmatically and exclusively to their versions of the gospel while failing to learn from the insights of others.

And similarly, when possession is taken of the land and Joshua's work is done, we read as if from his lips that magnificent confessional recital of past events in Josh.

Sure, there's a difference in the Confessional, but the same holds true between Rome and the other Communions, some of whom are very close indeed to the older creed — it depends on how far they are removed from the personal.

At the same time, form critics remind us that any interpretation must take into account the confessional form of the story, that is, its present structure, intent, and emphasis as derived from its cultic use, as imparted from its repeated recitation throughout Israel's generations on the occasion of the annual celebration of the great deliverance.

The federal rule on the «seal of the confessional» is far from clear.

The history of Christian division and confessional warfare helped give rise to a secular culture that was determined to free itself from religion altogether.

At the same time any interpretation must take into account the confessional form of this tradition; that is, that its present structure, intent, and emphasis are derived from its use in worship and its repeated recitation throughout ancient Israel's generations during annual celebrations of the great deliverance.

This requires, of course, that we not identify the faith with any one confessional tradition, especially with any one tradition emerging from the tragic divisions of the sixteenth century.

A third and final facet of the question relates to the possible forms that distributive justice can take in Catholic confessional states, which Dignitatis Humanae admits may differ legitimately from the shape that distributive justice typically assumes in liberal regimes.

(Dulles, p, 275) But, as Dulles and other theologians also insist, such a confessional statement does not preclude the possibility of open dialogue and genuine willingness to learn new things about mystery from other positions.

Nevertheless, the role of Scripture and its interpretation is quite different in this confessional approach to theology from that discussed above.

The second stage is to realize that confession is not simply a way to remove stains from our souls» as if the confessional were a theological «dry cleaner»» but rather, an encounter with Jesus Christ, who is always ready to forgive sins and transform lives.

However I will concede that it does make quick work of making a savory tart and on more than one occasion I've been duped by someone, whose tart I've complimented, which prompted what I call «The Garbage Can Confessional»: when someone has to fess up and extract an empty box from the poubelle, usually from Picard, France's popular frozen food chain.

Divided into seven sections - Pregnancy, Kids, Living, News, Dads, Video, and Confessional (most of these have more subtopics)- the blog taps into a long list of parenting issues, from naming your baby to addressing special needs.

Three000 (3) suspects namely Azeez Salawudeen 20 yrs, Adewale Popoola 22 yrs and Adetoyese Muftau 23 yrs from whom Two (2) phones and SIM cards belonging to victims were recovered have also made confessional statements admitting to the various roles they played in the commission of the crime.