Sentences with phrase «from liturgical churches»

Not exact matches

While any fair - minded high - church reader of Ross's work should be able to finish this book with a greater understanding of evangelical liturgical practices, I am not sure that he will come away from this book feeling more sympathetic to low - church evangelicalism.

In the historical Christian Church's liturgical calendar, the four weeks before Christmas are Advent — the Christmas season runs from Christmas Eve until January 6 (the 12 days of Christmas).

Attempts to compare evangelical liturgical practices to those of more high church traditions are often doomed from the start because of the fundamentally different assumptions that undergird both.

As a result, evangelical liturgical practices tend to be far more fluid than the practices of more high church traditions, as the practices flow from a belief that spiritual regeneration precedes liturgical practice — and regeneration can not be reduced down to easily identified physical characteristics.

Thus Evangelical Catholicism's approach to church architecture, decoration, music, vesture, and all the other tangibles of the Church's liturgical life proceeds from the question, «Is this beautiful in such a way that it helps disclose the living God in Word and Sacrament?&church architecture, decoration, music, vesture, and all the other tangibles of the Church's liturgical life proceeds from the question, «Is this beautiful in such a way that it helps disclose the living God in Word and Sacrament?&Church's liturgical life proceeds from the question, «Is this beautiful in such a way that it helps disclose the living God in Word and Sacrament?»

Until then, however, liturgical participation will require heroic efforts from the many who live far from a church.

In this engagement with Scripture, Evangelicals and Catholics are learning from one another: Catholics from the Evangelical emphasis on group Bible study and commitment to the majestic and final authority of the written word of God; and Evangelicals from the Catholic emphasis on Scripture in the liturgical and devotional life, informed by the lived experience of Christ's Church through the ages.

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.

She sees as promising and gratifying the openness and participation of Pentecostals in dialogue with other Christian churches on a broad range of issues — from theological and liturgical matters to the question of women's participation in church and society.

''... It is perhaps not remarkable to find that these liturgical forms were not evolved by the church at all, but borrowed from pagan common law...»

And while the strains of the post-Conciliar years (which were also years of tremendous demographic transformation on the American urban / suburban landscape) have tested that claim as never before, there remain, in this, the sesquicentennial year of the erection of the diocese, many impressive signs of vitality in a local church that has been distinguished for its rich ethnic diversity, its identification of parish and neighborhood, its impressive clerical and lay leadership, its self - conscious social and political liberalism, and its sense of itself as the «lead diocese» in matters ranging from liturgical renewal to Christian social action.

One final note from GIRM 397: «The Roman Rite constitutes a notable and precious part of the liturgical treasure and patrimony of the Catholic Church; its riches are conducive to the good of the universal Church, so that their loss would gravely harm her.»

From Sara: Many experiences I have had with members of Pentecostal churches and their leadership believe and teach that the Catholic church (and other liturgical Protestant denominations) are not Christian churches.

In order to make concrete that preaching situation let us assume further that I am a preacher in a church which owns and honors the liturgical tradition, and as a major obedience to that tradition does not deliver over to me — for exploitation according to my ambulatory penchants or enthusiasms — a merely religious occasion, but has from of old designated this Sunday as the second Sunday in Advent.

The second was the liturgical movement (from which the ecclesio - typical school emerged), which sought a renewal of the Church from the Scriptures and the Fathers.

Your church expression can be anything from none to house - church to the highest liturgical expression.

It dramatically portrays as never before that churches around the world have reached a critical point in the movement from being more or less homogenous in faith, worship and life to a situation of theological and liturgical heterogeneity, rooted in a profound commitment to express Christian faith and witness in terms of particular local cultural idioms.

from Persia was the beginning of East Syrian influence on the ecclesiastical and liturgical life of the church in India.

Though the ecclesiastical relation between the two churches existed at least from the end of third century, the immigration of Persian Christians to Kerala not only strengthened the existing community, but also influenced its liturgical life.

In this way the overall theme moves chapter by chapter from the liturgical actions of the Old Testament to the present day liturgical practice of the Church.

I do not like this pope... to modern the church lost a lots of people after Vatican ii... he's the leader of the church but I don't think he understands how the church worked in the last 2000 years... that's why we need a European pope again they understand how dress when they read mess he's to plain... people want to see a pope in the old liturgical clothing the old Latin mass was great with the great pomp... the church can modernize but just don't give up the old I think traditions I think pope benedict understood that... he came from Bavaria where they still celebrating mass in the old baroque style he's the pope not just a simple priest... the queen of England understands that people want to see pomp pretty soon he will wear street cloth..

From my ecumenical studies and works, I knew the various intellectual, liturgical, constitutional, and social forms of expression adopted by Christianity in the various churches and sects in the past and the present.

But a liturgical intent will also allow womanist theology to challenge the thought / worship / action of the black church with the discordant and prophetic messages emerging from womanist participation in multidialogics.

The following «thy will be done, on earth as in heaven» in Matthew is doubtless liturgical explication, but the petition itself differs from the Kaddish petition, «May he establish his kingdom in your lifetime and in your days and in the lifetime of all the house of Israel, even speedily and at a near time», which it parallels in sentiment, in ways which are characteristic of Jesus, not the early Church: the brevity of formulation (cf. «Father [abba]» versus «Our Father who art in heaven»); the intimate «Thy» for the formal «his»; and the use of the verb «to come» rather than «to establish» (the early Church prayed for the coming of the Lord, not the Kingdom, cf. I Cor.

For this reason Paul can speak of words from the Lord and mean words possibly originating from Jesus but heavily reinterpreted in the Church and overlaid with liturgical instructions (I Cor.

The Mass and the Saints by Thomas Crean, OP, Family Publications, 208 pp, # 13.50 Quoting from authors throughout the centuries who are mostly (but not exclusively) canonised saints of the Church, this book forms a continuous commentary on the various parts of the Mass as well as related questions such as the Eucharistic fast, the appropriate time for Mass to be celebrated, liturgical orientation and language.