Sentences with phrase «high church traditions»

I'm sorry to say, I don't agree with your solution though... of being «drawn to high church 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.

''... increasingly drawn to high church traditions — Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, the Episcopal Church, etc.» Your vaunted BS meter should be glowing red by now.

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.

The «old high church traditions» are not necessarily the best ways.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

But it takes a special kind of nerve to caution conservatives about «the high costs of tying a church with a rich tradition of social teaching to the right end of politics,» when you are on board with efforts at the left end of politics to alter and thereby betray that tradition.

In one of Ross's most effective chapters, she argues that low - church evangelical liturgy has taken many of its cues from the Gospel of John, while more high - church traditions have tended to look toward the synoptics.

But the Wesleyan vision includes a high respect for the tradition of the church as a source for theological formulation and a willingness to be judged by it, though flexibly, with Scripture as the final judge of the value of tradition.

Evangelicals continue to move into the Catholic and Orthodox churches, but this remains a minority movement, consisting largely of high - profile converts and university students exposed to those theological traditions.

The Pelikan volume on the Book of Acts sets a very high standard for a series that promises to make a historic contribution to understanding the Bible within the living tradition that is the Church.

At oral arguments about whether public prayers at a New York town's board meetings are permissible, the high court took a broad look at the country's church - state history and even the Supreme Court's own traditions.

I once spoke with a young woman who was raised in a very liberal mainline tradition who told me she left the church because, «I wasn't learning anything there about tolerance, love, and good stewardship of the planet that I wasn't learning at my public high school, so what was the point?»

The author contrasts an ancient abbey with its traditions, history and rootedness, to the modern American megachurch without tradition, culture or weighted worship, to an ecological sound, modern, high - tech, all thought out community but where the state church seems of little consequence, yet in this latter place the gospel seemed to make more sense.

Their protests, in dramatic contrast to the silence of church officials, stirred to the surface a long tradition of lay resentment against the higher clergy.

«Whereas evangelical churches (and increasing numbers of mainline ones) seek to attract young people by designing spaces stripped of Christian symbols or tradition, JW people seem to like the traditional feel of the sanctuary, with its dark wood, stained glass and high ceilings.

In effect, he beats the critical tradition at their own game, defending the authenticity of the miracle accounts, counteracting the unfounded claims of anti-Semitism and demonstrating the early tradition of high Christology in the primitive Church.

The churches would continue in such a plan to have much diversity, but with freer passage back and forth for both ministers and members, a far higher consciousness of Christians representing traditions other than one's own, an arena for mutuality in mission.

In the Church's teachings and highest traditions we find a meaningful contribution to the emergence and foundation of a global community, namely, the dignity of the human, the unity and universality of the human family, and the common human responsibility for all of creation.

It is the evangelical preaching tradition, not the high - church tradition emphasizing sacrament and liturgy, that has shaped American communicative style, Balmer argued.

We may say that a motif which can be detected in a multiplicity of strands of tradition and in various forms (pronouncement stories, parables, sayings, etc.) will have a high claim to authenticity, always provided that it is not characteristic of an activity, interest or emphasis of the earliest Church.

The Encyclical Ut unum sint lists among the five still controversial areas: «I) the relationship between Sacred Scripture, as the highest authority in matter of faith, and Sacred Tradition, as indispensable to the interpretation of the Word of God,» and «4) the Magisterium of the Church, entrusted to the Pope and the Bishops in communion with him, understood as a responsibility and an authority exercised in the name of Christ for teaching and safeguarding the faith.»

How well are the churches addressing the tensions felt in the minds of many educated Christians who internally hear two choruses: on the one hand, the voices of their pastor and Sunday school, the scriptures and tradition; on the other, the voices of their high school science teacher, their college biology professor and the science section of the New York Times?

Toward the end of Ut Unum Sint, John Paul cites some of the questions that must be addressed in conversation with the communities issuing from the tragic divisions of the sixteenth century: (1) The relationship between Sacred Scripture, as the highest authority in matters of faith, and Sacred Tradition, as indispensable to the interpretation of the Word of God; (2) The Eucharist as the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ, an offering of praise to the Father, the sacrificial memorial and Real Presence of Christ and the sanctifying outpouring of the Holy Spirit; (3) Ordination, as a Sacrament, to the threefold ministry of the episcopate, presbyterate, and diaconate; (4) The Magisterium of the Church, entrusted to the pope and the bishops in communion with him, understood as a responsibility and an authority exercised in the name of Christ for teaching and safeguarding the faith; (5) The Virgin Mary, as Mother of God and Icon of the Church, the spiritual Mother who intercedes for Christ's disciples and for all humanity.

It is for this reason that in the Church's teachings and highest traditions we find that I consider to be our meaningful contribution to the emergence and foundation of a global community: the dignity of the human, the unity and universality of the human family, and the common human responsibility for all of creation.

From Ella: My Pastoral Theology professor brought to the table a statistic that only 2 % of senior pastors in Pentecostal churches are women, even though the tradition has long allowed women to serve in high positions of ministry.

Strategies of Non-Intention: John Cage & artists he collected / Gering / 14 E 63 (new location) / thru 8/31 Lyonel Feininger / Moeller / 35 E 64 / thru 6/27 (extended) Billy Al Bengston / Franklin Parrasch / 53 E 64 (new location) / thru 6/28 Mark Grotjahn / Blum & Poe / 19 E 66 (new in NYC) / thru 6/21 Lynda Barry / Baumgold / 60 E 66 / thru 7/11 Kan Yasuda / Eykyn - Maclean / 23 E 67 / thru 6/27 Horacio Zabala; Eduardo Kac / Faria / 35 E 67 / thru 6/21 Anna Maria Maiolino / Hauser & Wirth / 32 E 69 / thru 6/21 Copied / Roth / 160A E 70 / thru 6/20 Nalini Malani / Asia Society / 725 Park @ 70 / thru 8/3 Distilled: The Small Painting Show / Jacobson / 17 E 71 / thru 7/31 Pierre Soulages / Levy / 909 Madison @ 73 / thru 6/27 Pierre Soulages / Perrotin / 909 Madison @ 73 / thru 6/27 Helen Frankenthaler and David Smith / Starr / 5 E 73 / thru 8/8 Frank Stella / Van Doren Waxter / 23 E 73 / thru 6/27 Carved, Cast, Chrushed, Constructed / Freedman / 25 E 73 / thru 8/22 (extended) Peter Sis curated by Charlotta Kotik / Czech Center / 321 E 73 / thru 9/1 Harmony Korine / Gagosian / 821 Park @ 75 (new, additional location) / thru 7/11 (extended) Jeff Koons / Whitney Museum / Madison @ 75 / thru 10/19 Opening 6/27 Kathleen Kucka / Geranmayeh / 956 Madision @ 76 — floor 3 / thru 6/28 Jasper Johns; Roy Lichtenstein / Castellli / 18 E 77 / thru 6/27 The Shaped Canvas, Revisited / Luxembourg & Dayan / 64 E 77 / thru 7/3 Ed Rusha thru 7/11; Marcel Duchamp thru 8/8 Opening 6/26 / Gagosian / 980 Madison @ 77th Barbara Crane / Higher Pictures / 980 Madison @ 77 / thru 6/21 Journal / Venus Over Manhattan / 980 Madison @ 77 / thru 7/26 Lynn Chadwick / Blain - DiDonna / 981 Madison @ 77 / thru 7/25 James Lee Byars / Werner / 4 E 77 / thru 8/30 Peter Davies / Roitfeld / 5a E 78 / thru 8/10 Eddie Martinez / Half / 43 East 78 / thru 7/15 Nancy Graves / Mitchell - Innes & Nash / 1018 Madison @ 78 / thru 6/27 Jean Dubuffet; Miquel Barcelo / Acquavella / 18 E 79 / thru 9/19 Opening 6/30 Lucien Smith / Skarstedt / 20 E 79 / thru 6/27 Luke Diiorio / Blumenthal / 1045 Madison @ 80 / thru 7/2 Lucas Samaras thru 9/1; Dan Graham with Gunther Vogt thru 11/2; Goya thru 8/3; Etc. / Met Museum / 5th Avenue @ 82nd Italian Futurism thru 9/1, Etc. / Guggenheim / 1071 Fifth Avenue @ 89 The Annual: Redifining Tradition / National Academy / 1083 Fifth Avenue @ 89 / thru 9/14 Sophie Calle / Cooper + Perrotin @ The Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest / 2 E 90 / thru 6/25 Mel Bochner thru 9/21; Other Primary Structures thru 8/3; Etc. / Jewish Museum / 1109 5th Avenue @ 92 Museum Starter Kit: Open with Care, Etc. / El Museo del Barrio / 1230 Fifth @ 104 / thru 9/6 Glenn Kaino; When the Stars Begin to Fall; Carrie Mae Weems; Etc. / Studio Museum / 144 W 125 / thru 6/29 If You Build It / No Longer Empty / 115 & St. Nicholas Ave. / thru 8/10 Opening 6/25 (7 - 9 PM) BROOKLYN Parallel Shift / NARS Foundation / 201 46th Street — floor 4, Sunset Park / thru 6/20 Itness: MaDora Frey; Nicola Ginzel; Heide Hatry; Fawn Krieger; Seren Morey / Trestle / 168 7th, Gowanus / thru 7/2 Myles Bennett, Jay Gaskill, Cat Glennon, Enrico Gomez, Eliot Markell, Esther Ruiz and Jeanne Tremel / Ground Floor / 343 5th / thru 6 /?

The Shaped Canvas, Revisited / Luxembourg & Dayan / 64 E 77 / thru 7/3 Diane Arbus; Cady Noland / Gagosian / 976 Madison @ 77th (new location) / thru 5/23 (extended) Richard Prince; Alexander Calder / Ed Rusha / Gagosian / 980 Madison @ 77th / thru 6/14 Barbara Crane / Higher Pictures / 980 Madison @ 77 / thru 6/21 Poetics of the Gesture: Schiele; TTwombly; Basquiat / Nahmad / 980 Madison — floor 3 / thru 6/14 Journal / Venus Over Manhattan / 980 Madison @ 77 / thru 7/26 Opening 5/28 Lynn Chadwick / Blain - DiDonna / 981 Madison @ 77 / thru 7/25 Opening 5/29 Sigmar Polke / Werner / 4 E 77 / thru 6/7 Hugo McCloud / Roitfeld / 5a E 78 / thru 6/7 Andrew Kuo / Half / 43 East 78 / thru 6/2 Casting Modernity / Mnuchin / 45 E 78 / thru 6/7 Jean - Michel Basquiat / Acquavella / 18 E 79 / thru 6/13 Lucien Smith / Skarstedt / 20 E 79 / thru 6/27 Dean Levin / Blumenthal / 1045 Madison @ 80 / thru 5/30 Lucas Samaras thru 6/1; Dan Graham with Gunther Vogt thru 11/2; Goya thru 8/3; Etc. / Met Museum / 5th Avenue @ 82nd Italian Futurism thru 9/1, Etc. / Guggenheim / 1071 Fifth Avenue @ 89 The Annual: Redifining Tradition / National Academy / 1083 Fifth Avenue @ 89 / thru 9/14 Opening 6/11 Sophie Calle / Cooper + Perrotin @ The Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest / 2 E 90 / thru 6/25 Mel Bochner thru 9/21; Other Primary Structures thru 8/3; Etc. / Jewish Museum / 1109 5th Avenue @ 92 Museum Starter Kit: Open with Care, Etc. / El Museo del Barrio / 1230 Fifth @ 104 / thru 9/6 Glenn Kaino; When the Stars Begin to Fall; Carrie Mae Weems; Etc. / Studio Museum / 144 W 125 / thru 6/29