Sentences with phrase «historic traditions of the churches»

The Campbells» effort to unite Christians on the foundation of what they perceived to be the New Testament pattern of preaching and discipline thus included an iconoclastic attack on the historic traditions of the churches.

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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.

Upon the basis of Paul's teaching, taken alone, Christianity might possibly have foundered a century later in the rising sea of Gnosticism; possessing Mark's compilation of the historic traditions, later amplified by the other evangelists, the church held true to its course, steering with firm, unslackened grip upon the historic origins of its faith.

With today's Catholic universities drifting away from any recognizable connection to the Catholic tradition, dioceses closing parochial schools, and the Church's ability to influence politics at a historic low, it's absurd to speak of a «resurgent» integralism.

the truth of God can be or has been captured in the ex-cathedra utterances of the bishop of Rome — the idolatry of many who like to pretend that ultimate truth has been captured in the ecumenical councils of the early church, in the historic creeds, or in the «unbroken tradition of the catholic faith,» which usually is the same thing as the speaker's special prejudice.

Methodists have said «the LDS Church is not a part of the historic, apostolic tradition of the Christian faith.»

And of the rising influence of Pentecostal churches and the relative waning of churches in the historic confessional traditions?

Indeed, I'm trying to remember when I last encountered an argument for changing the church's historic view of marriage that engaged so flippantly and superficially with the Christian tradition.

But for many churches in the «90s the return to the tradition of the church catholic will mean an increasing reliance on the historic experience of the church at worship.

Much of the recent theological reflection on martyrdom has come from thinkers in the Anabaptist tradition — not surprising, perhaps, since that church's historic refusal to use violence often resulted in Anabaptists being targets of violence.

One is the desire to understand the gospel and the historic Christian tradition as fully as possible, to grasp the objective foundation of the ministry and the church.

Some of these, like the Church of South India, united Reformed churches with churches of traditions that hold to the necessity of the historic episcopate.

What is especially intriguing, moreover, is the observable convergence of these essays, despite incidental disagreements and the very different strata of Christian tradition on which they draw, towards a point of intersection that is difficult to describe but seems to be very near the heart of the mystery whose herald and sign the historic church has claimed to be.

Last week, the Eastern Orthodox Church, a communion of 14 autocephalous, national churches with roots in the Byzantine Christian tradition, concluded an historic synod on the island of Crete.

And it is through such movements that the historic churches in countless ways are being called not to an entire abandonment of their respective traditions and perspectives, but back to the simplicity of the Gospel and ultimately to their First Love Himself.