Sentences with phrase «hierarchical church»

The Supreme Court of Illinois recognized that all parties agree that the Serbian Orthodox Church is a hierarchical church, and that the sole power to appoint and remove Bishops of the Church resides in its highest ranking organs, the Holy Assembly and the Holy Synod.

The fallacy fatal to the judgment of the Illinois Supreme Court is that it rests upon an impermissible rejection of the decisions of the highest ecclesiastical tribunals of this hierarchical church upon the issues in dispute, and impermissibly substitutes its own inquiry into church polity and resolutions based thereon of those disputes.

[Footnote 1] We granted certiorari to determine whether the actions of the Illinois Supreme Court constituted improper judicial interference with decisions of the highest authorities of a hierarchical church in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

In short, under the guise of «minimal» review under the umbrella of «arbitrariness,» the Illinois Supreme Court has unconstitutionally undertaken the resolution of quintessentially religious controversies whose resolution the First Amendment commits exclusively to the highest ecclesiastical tribunals of this hierarchical church.

Church's decisions that the Illinois Supreme Court deemed «arbitrary,» that court has unconstitutionally undertaken the adjudication of quintessentially religious controversies whose resolution the First Amendment commits exclusively to the highest ecclesiastical tribunals of this hierarchical church.

The other basic problem is the real tension between an authoritarian, centralized hierarchical church and the spirit of an open, pluralistic, democratic society.

It gave Catholics the right to dissent from hierarchical church teaching on a moral matter, if they could achieve «solid probability,» a technical term.

Their subsequent editing — and purging — were done with the sole purpose of establishing a hierarchical church structure, and much of what's left is there because it drives that point home.

I'm very uncomfortable with the official hierarchical church, often very ashamed of it, particularly lately — ashamed not only of the pedophilia scandal, but of the behavior of the American hierarchy during the presidential election.

The hierarchical Church is a rigid institution striving in vain to bring the behavior and ideas of its members into line with traditional orthodoxy.

Later on in the Spiritual Exercises, when writing of the choice of a state of life, Ignatius says that «all matters of which we wish to make a choice [must] be indifferent or good in themselves, and such that they are lawful within our Holy Mother, the hierarchical Church, and not bad or opposed to her.»

Are they not cleverer and wiser than the hierarchical Church, the subversive vanguard of the future Church?

On reflection it should be evident that it makes little sense to take vows and seek ordination in a religious order unless one is committed to support and serve the hierarchical Church.

From Boff's presentation it becomes clear that the specific image of the Trinity is being moulded by the needs of society which, in turn, is being viewed from a socially understood Trinity.12 The former becomes clear from his starting point which lies with the needs in church, society and cosmos, and with the opposition to a hierarchical church, an undemocratic society and a disregarded natural environment.13 The latter results from his dogmatic and historical treatment of the doctrine of the Trinity, especially from his developing the notion of perichoresis.

I see the hierarchical Church's direction today as different from but not antithetical to that of the Society.

Although Cardinal Dulles says that «a new generation of seminarians and religious is arising,» and that «it consists of young men eager to retrieve the tradition of former centuries and to serve the hierarchical Church,» Fr.

In the same way present - day Skimpoles are fond of saying, «I don't believe in a hierarchical Church.

But while experience shows that the Catholics» answer to the fundamentalists lies in the base communities, only a minority of bishops have strongly pushed for them because of the Vatican's frequently voiced concern that they are too «horizontal» — meaning that they are a democratic influence on a hierarchical church — and liable to become involved in social and political issues.

Mankowski, who holds quite different views on ordaining women, agrees with Weakland that it would have been much better if the writers of the pastoral came right out and said what they mean by lamenting the sins of sexism in a hierarchical church.

Green was allowed to make the unopposed penultimate point suggesting that just as religious dictatorial fundamentalism and theocracy are causing «enormous violence» around the world hierarchical Churches believing in «one fundamental and absolute truth» are places where child abuse flourishes.

[Footnote 5] With respect to hierarchical churches, Watson held:

Not exact matches

And as the Catholic clergy anyway know that their club is no church but a business company with spiritual paint they accept this hierarchical system.

This failure, he suggests, then paved the way for a modern, hierarchical reconfiguration of ecclesial authority, in which Church authorities took a more decisive role in the determination of doctrine.

I think that Pope Francis is revitalizing the Catholic Church, giving lapsed Catholics, who left the Church because they were disenchanted by its hierarchical structure and penchant for lavishness, a reason to return.

The Calvinist churches are without doubt the least transparent, most legalistic, performance based, arrogant, and heavily controlled and dominated by top down hierarchical clergy.

The highly hierarchical — and highly Americanized — Seventh - day Adventist Church has reached a turning point, says Ronald Lawson.

Another test for the church is how far it can build an accepting fellowship where people can articulate their own experience of God in Christ This again raises questions about the future organization of the institutional church and whether it can or should maintain its present hierarchical structure where authority seems to come down from on high.

As Kinnaman puts it, «which model [does] the Church most resemble — the established monolith or grassroots network — and what might that mean for its relevance in the lives of a collaborative, can - do generation that feels alienated from hierarchical institutions?»

True, the right relation between the hierarchical ministry and the laity can never be completely regulated by institutional and legal methods, but involves also an element of human freedom as well as of the spirit of the Church.

The answer is centered in a misunderstanding of what an apostle was in the first place (in the Greco - Roman social context), and is based on a hierarchical understanding that places apostles at the top of the church structure when the New Testament clearly places them at the bottom.

In the present situation the first step that can and should be made is for the church to recognize officially the somewhat provisional character of the authoritative noninfallible hierarchical teaching.

In other words, the Church can not change its world view, but cling to its hierarchical structure.

This structure, in my view, fails to acknowledge our deep interconnectedness as members of the church and simply affirms the notion of a hierarchical structure and the expectations that go along with it.

Though many married couples who use artificial contraception, along with divorced and remarried Catholics and gays, continue to participate in the life of the church, the great discrepancy between Catholic teaching and Catholic practice has called into question the credibility of the hierarchical teaching office.

Blacks lived in their own neighborhoods, went to their own churches, and generally interacted only with other blacks save for the new (but still tight) pattern of hierarchical relations.

I argued (in a paper prepared in the late»60s for a conference held by St. Joan's Alliance) that women's incorporation into hierarchical - patriarchal structures can only lead to further clericalizing of the church — not to changing it.

So also, «in fidelity to the deposit of faith,» is the unity of hierarchical and charismatic gifts in the body of Christ, the Church.

This approach contrasts markedly with the bureaucratic or hierarchical restrictions imposed by state institutions and traditional churches.

These churches are non «hierarchical and non «liturgical; biblicistic rather than doctrinal; experiential and emotional rather than intellectual.

She is the Mystical Body of Christ; at the same time a visible society instituted with hierarchical organs, and a spiritual community; the Church on earth, the pilgrim People of God here below, and the Church filled with heavenly blessings; the germ and the first fruits of the Kingdom of God, through which the work and the sufferings of Redemption are continued throughout human history, and which looks for its perfect accomplishment beyond time in glory.

Lumen gentium teaches that «Christ... has founded... his Holy Church»; «has made her visible framework... the dispenser of grace and truth»; «she is a society equipped with hierarchical organs and the Mystical Body of Christ, a visible assembly and a spiritual fellowship»; «we must not think of the Church as two substances, but a single, complex reality, the compound of a human and a divine element» (n. 8).

It should go without saying that these crimes are an utter perversion of Catholicism - but unfortunately it has to be said, because the hierarchical structures of the Church made it easy to conceal them, and religious arrogance and paranoia persuaded the authorities that they should be concealed.»

One indication of this is the emphasis in recent Church documents on obedience to the hierarchical teaching authority and on the relationship between hierarchical superiority and subordination.

The recent German statement expresses Protestant anxieties that such an ecumenical agenda may end up in Lutheranism being swallowed completely into the «hierarchical structure» of the Roman Catholic Church.

The Reformers, as wonderful as they were, still retained the Magisterial, hierarchical, building - centered approach to doing church which began after Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity.

Instead of increasing the confidence of Christendom in its church, the Crusades caused the rise of movements and ideas which shook the sacramental, hierarchical institution to its foundations.

Prof. McDonough's letter also reveals with startling clarity that the real intent of the authors is to attack the hierarchical structure of the Church and its traditions regarding priesthood.

Hierarchical attitudes about the importance and power associated with different kinds of church - work make it difficult for pastors to convey the idea that different gifts for ministry are suited to different offices.

11:17 - 34; 14:33, 40) and a hierarchical structure present in church order (12:28 - 31) and in married life (11:3 - 10).

Writing in Commonweal, Peter Steinfels, senior religion reporter for the New York Times, describes what is now a very tired scenario: «A church that is democratic, egalitarian, open, embracing, tolerant, innovating, lay - led, diverse, and affirmative of American values is pitted against a church that is autocratic, hierarchical, dogmatic, discriminating, clerical, monolithic, and committed to a European past.»