Sentences with phrase «full place in our church»

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Despite the sinfulness of its people, the Church is always the privileged place of encounter with the living God, who continually forms his people into the community in which the full truth about humanity is grasped.

If any members of the Church including also individual bishops were to demand that the Church should alter her constitution in a way contradicting her dogmatically defined self - understanding, such movement in favour of change would actually no longer take place within the Church but outside, for those demanding such a change could no longer belong to the Church in the full sense of a visible society.

He tried to plant a church with some others that would be different from other churches, but soon found himself in a place full of rules and policies just like any other church.

Thus, even though prisons were among the first places of special need to catch the eye of the churches, it is only in the past quarter - century that the plan of full - time and specially trained chaplains, responsibly related to their churches as well as to their jobs, has become widespread.

While Biblical hermeneutics provided the key to an understanding of the role of women in the church and family, dialogue between those whose traditions have heard the Word of God differently in other times and places held the key for the discussion of social ethics, and engagement with the full range of cultural activity (from psychotherapy to radical protest, from personal testimony to scientific statement) was the locus for theological evaluation concerning homosexuality.

Its object is not simply to understand the world but to respond to the power of God which is recreating it... Christian theology is prophetic only in so far as it dares, in full reflection, to declare how, at a particular place and time, God is at work, and thus to show the Church where and when to participate in his work.6

Such a mission requires in the first place that we foster within the Church herself mutual esteem, reverence, and harmony, through the full recognition of lawful diversity.

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To describe the Church as a community of memory and hope, sharing in the common memory not only of Jesus Christ but also of the mighty deeds of God known by Israel, expecting the coming into full view of the kingdom on earth and / or in heaven; to describe it further as the community of worship, united by its direction toward one God, who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit yet worshipped more as Father or as Son or as Holy Spirit in this or that part of the community; to describe it as a community of thought in which debate and conflict can take place because there is a fundamental frame of agreement and because there are common issues of great import — to do all this and the much more that needs to be done would be to essay the work of a large part of theology.

Through this revelation of God's female aspect, woman's full humanity is affirmed and she is able to take her rightful place in the church and in the order of redemption.

In the last century the Church was presented as a full and perfect society, on the same level as the state; at the same time, emphasis was placed on the hierarchical and juridical aspects of the Church as institution.

The churches in Canada and the United States were still full (at least by contemporary standards); bishops and moderators had influence in high places; and the clergy were the bright, affable, well - spoken and of course (ostensibly) heterosexual young men (yes of course, men) who had chosen theology over law and medicine.

Seldom are ordained women placed in full charge of a local church, save in some small town and rural congregations that can not afford or find a man.

Are you ever in a public place — in a restaurant, at church, etc. — and seen parents with their hands full?

A lot of churches and holy places in Europe won't let you in unless your shoulders and thighs are covered, but sometimes it's just too hot to wear full - length pants or a shirt with sleeves.

We then found another weird place which was basically a «brocante» fair (brocante basically means junk or odds and ends, just with a few more antique pieces thrown in), it had one bit which was a church full of really expensive pieces, really beautiful.

The film is full of sex, blood and death but the most disturbing scenes invariably take place in the most familiar locations - in churches or suburban gardens or hotel dining rooms or, creepiest of all, in a high street clothes shop.

Our website (shenandoahliterary.org) is one place I'd send readers for the provocative surprises like those in Alyson Hagy's «Self - Portrait as a Trailer Full of Mules,» Jim McDermott's «The Pointer,» Seth Brady Tucker's «Jigsaw,» Nick Ripatrazone's «The Cribbing Collar,» Emily Pease's moving «Church Retreat, 1975» and many more in our archives.

Enjoy a full day exploring St Mary's today on a guided walking tour that takes in the region's most prestigious beauty spots such as the Old Town, whose church is the final resting place of former Prime Minister, Sir Harold Wilson.