Sentences with phrase «fundamental changes in the church»

Only a Pope could have initiated such fundamental changes in the church — changes which many had hoped for.

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Then as my theology began to change I saw first hand the type of cultish mind control tactics employed in most fundamental church settings.

For someone that comes in to change the fundamentals of the church for their own cause or to profit from that change is nothing short of the likes of Judas.

This tendency suggests that the fundamental reason for the neglect of the church in recent theology lies elsewhere — namely, in the change in locus of theology itself from church to university.

Normally in such cases he can only change with the Church's whole consciousness of its belief, if such a change really takes place in respect of a more precise discernment of the fundamental moral guiding principles or of certain applications of these to new situations.

For it does not change the fundamental fact that not everything in the Roman - Catholic Church is left to the democratic will of the Christian people, including its ministers.

Evolution occurs everywhere, except, perhaps, in the more fundamental churches, where change is frowned upon.

One of its key tenets is that the modern era reveals something new about the human condition that requires the Church and doctrine to change in fundamental ways.

Even in the context of secularization of the state the church's relation to the state has not been changed in any fundamental way in the West.

i am undergoing such a change in the way i think about God and religion and reading some of your articles has been very refreshing — right now i am part of a very fundamental church and i need to get out - i am tired of the judgement and looking at people as «saved» and «unsaved» (we recently had a church event where if you brought an «unsaved» friend they got to rollerskate for free - i wanted to vomit)- i just want to follow Jesus - do nt know where to go but i do want to stay part of a church (for the sake of my children)- i saw somewhere on your blog that you too are in the hudson valley — are there any churches you can recommend that fall in line with your way of thinking?

The general belief after the 2014 synod, both inside and particularly outside the Church, was that the Catholic Church is now gearing up, not for some kind of change in pastoral strategy, but for fundamental changes in its teachings (hitherto immutable) on important questions to do with marriage and with sexual morality.

Although Pius XII was influenced by the fundamental changes in economic theory initiated by Keynes, it was not until Pope John XXIII in 1961 published Mater et Magistra (Mother and Teacher) that a new methodology and the identification of the problem of «development» emerged, requiring substantial changes in the social teaching of the Church which were expressed in Pacem in Terris (Peace throughout the World) in 1963.

On the surface, it sounds like he is planning to make changes to church policies that are more «user - friendly», while not caving in on the fundamental teachings of the church.

These «theological» experiences of ours are bound to bring about some fundamental changes in the way we do Christian theology, understand the nature and task of the Christian church, and paractice our Christian faith in Asia.