Sentences with phrase «high church»
The «old high church traditions» are not necessarily the best ways.
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I'm sorry to say, I don't agree with your solution though... of being «drawn to high church traditions».
Though some of the programs are broadcast in almost every market in the country, religious programs in general are to be found clustered in areas that already display a high degree of religious interest and church affiliation: on Sunday mornings, in geographical areas of high church attendance, and on stations recognized as being «religious» in their format.
Not many cities offer a place to be completely alone with your date in public, but the Forgotten Church — as it's known — in High Church Street is one such place.
After decades of hearing messages from high church officials that lesbian and gay people were a threat to humanity and a danger to children, I had to rub my eyes a few times to make sure that I was reading this new, more positive language correctly.
It has created the anomaly where programs considered to be «evangelical» in content appear more frequently in areas already high in religious interest, commitment, and activity: on Sunday mornings, in geographical areas of already high church attendance, and on stations recognized as being «religious» in content and format.
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.
As a convert to Roman Catholicism from old Prayer Book and High Church Anglicanism, I resolved to tolerate the current translation of the Novus Ordo (the Latin Mass as revised after Vatican II) because it was the Church's, not because it was edifying or beautiful.
Fascinating comment on why some people leave the evangelical churches for high church traditions.
As a long time Episcopalian, I hope that my friends that are heartened by the «high church turn» realize that it is this: «precisely because the ancient forms of liturgy seem so unpretentious, so unconcerned with being «cool,» and not because liturgy is cool or even trendy.
Throughout his resignation letter (which he posted here), Kensrue focused on what he sees as a lack of ability of the church elders to offer correction to higher church leadership, and the inability to address concerns raised by church members and the media.
He often refers to himself as a «high church Mennonite,» an intentionally paradoxical formulation that describes well his thought and life.
The Holy High Church of Trumpianity.
While the Evangelicals» concern for the social problems of their day was mainly practical and philanthropic, trying to effect change through Acts of Parliament and by giving relief to those in need, the response of the Church of England's High Church party, known as the Tractarians or Oxford Movement, was more theological.
All because Constantine and other high church councils decided to develop a giant doctrinal statement / creed...
For some, high church happens when every word and gesture is pre-scripted by a prayer book or missal.
For some, high church means formality: elaborate liturgical vestments, dignified gestures and postures, repetitiveness.
The lessons and carols service we attended earlier in the evening, which included a Neil Young song and a breathy jazz rendition of «Christmas Time Is Here» from «A Charlie Brown Christmas» — that was not high church.
As Jesse Cone puts it, «kids are going high church.»
It was pretty much an Episcopal service, very high church, hymns, readings.
Or take this conversation between Wimsey and Miss Climpson, «a tough, thin, elderly woman with a sound digestion and a militant High Church conscience of remarkable staying power» who is on Harriet's jury and whom he later sends to investigate an element of the case:
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.
Reared as an evangelical Protestant in Dublin, Tyrrell was attracted to High Church Anglicanism.
From Cassie: Growing up Chinese, my parents found any visual depiction of Christianity to be idolatrous, which I believe is due to the fact that much of the trappings of high church tradition were too similar to the ancestor worship with which they grew up.
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A theologian who is an Episcopalian, Lutheran, or Baptist (at least a high church Baptist) might agree with all his stated «limits of Catholic orthodoxy.»
And only when one begins to understand the neo-evangelical coalition in terms of its opposition to modernity can one comprehend recent convergences like the influx of neo evangelicals like Carl F. H. Henry and faculty members of such colleges as Wheaton and Gordon into the orbit of the New Oxford Review with its roots in the reaction of the traditional (and high church) party within the Anglican tradition.
There is so much more to high church traditions — it is so variegated and there is so much more any sincere follower can do in those traditions.
Many of us, myself included, are finding ourselves increasingly drawn to high church traditions - Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, the Episcopal Church, etc. - precisely because the ancient forms of liturgy seem so unpretentious, so unconcerned with being «cool,» and we find that refreshingly authentic.
The tendencies in a high church direction can be felt by some as an abandonment of the deeply personal, truly heartfelt celebrations that have been so important to them.
The gospel is a truth that binds us all together in unity, whether we are high church or low church, mega church or house church, or some mixture in between.
This also is the reason that every Christian must of necessity be «high church,» not in any denominational sense, not with any ecclesiastical overtones, but simply because to be a Christian at all — as we have defined it — means to be a member of that great community of Christian life and worship and faith which has come to be known as «the church.»
The Book of Common Prayer and church calendar will be integrated into more worship services, thus building bridges between the low church and the high church and fostering fellowship between brothers and sisters worshipping in various expressions of the universal Church.
When viewed this way, the gospel is a truth that binds us all together in unity, whether we are high church or low church, mega church or house church, or some mixture in between.
I do admit I enjoy the theatrical aspects of a high church service, but rather in the same way as Grand Opera.
Howard and Elliot come to their «spiritualized» hermeneutic out of a need to buttress their high church liturgical commitment.
The movement (also known as Tractarianism) was fairly short - lived, but Rossetti would retain its «high church» Anglo - Catholic expression for the rest of her life.
By way of an answer here are two quotations from the postscript to Catholicism: A New Synthesis by Fr Edward Holloway, its founder: «the painful development of the «High Church» from the heart - searching debate which Cardinal Newman initiated, has not been in the name of Unity or of Ecumenism, but in the name of the rediscovery or the fuller discovery of the truth of Christ.»
It is the power of salvation for all who believe, whether Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal, Arminian or Calvinist, Baptist or Presbyterian, Methodist or Lutheran, high church or low church, mini or mega, traditional or emerging, iMonk or TeamPyro.
There are an awful lot of gay clergy in the C of E, especially at the high church end and t he church has had to allow for them to be in civil partnerships with their same sex partners and share church accomodation, whilst never explicitly acknowledging that these are sexual relationships — a typical Anglican compromise and a very English, «we won't mention it» way of dealing with a situation.