Sentences with phrase «holiness tradition»

Those who teach a doctrine of sanctification in the Wesleyan, Holiness tradition, the «three works of grace.»

Blake's fusion of the holiness tradition of ministering to the poor and oppressed with concern for national issues has garnered a statement of affirmation from Catholic scholars.

If you are a theologian of the Catholic, Lutheran, or Holiness tradition, you can wrap your head around the practicalities of the «Inner Light» by thinking of it as «prevenient grace».

Beyond the considerable body of research that has emerged in the past three decades which demonstrates that women played a far more generous role in the early Church than perhaps Neuhaus has imagined, my own Wesleyan holiness tradition has apparently escaped his ecumenical vision as well for it was already ordaining women in the nineteenth century.

I am thinking of independent churches, the Holiness traditions, the Assemblies of God, and the Nazarene Church, and the Baptist General Conference, which ordained its first woman in 1943 — the Reverend Ethel Ruff.

The meaning of all of this is not yet clear, but the older Holiness traditions may indicate what lies ahead for both traditions.

Indeed, one of the distinctive features of the Holiness traditions is that they have tended to raise ethics to the status that fundamentalists have accorded doctrine.

Not exact matches

The lives of the saints do not present us with a new theory of virtue, but a new way of teaching, a new strategy that builds on the tradition of examples, but enriches it by unfolding a pattern of holiness over the course of a lifetime.

In a collection of essays entitled The Sanctified Church, Zora Neale Hurston described the traditions of the African American holiness and Pentecostal churches as a «revitalizing element» in black music and religion.

(Jude, vs. 20) One does not mean by this that other elements of the original tradition are not present in the New Testament's thought of holiness.

When self - righteousness and natural virtue are unveiled as Satan's holiness, we are once again confronting a transcendence and inversion of the Western moral and theological tradition, an inversion revealing that the natural virtue and power of an individual selfhood is the inevitable expression of the self - alienation of a fallen and isolated humanity.

Please don't feel sorry for me; the balance between concupiscence and holiness is carefully but eloquently held in the Western theological tradition, and as an inheritor of that tradition, I'm really rather joyful — Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me!

They were invited to join the newly formed National Association of Evangelicals, a group of church bodies composed of the fundamentalist, holiness and Pentecostal traditions.

Tracing a line of development from Charles Finney and the Oberlin circle in the 1840s to the Keswick Convention in England in the 1870s and then to D. L. Moody's Northfield Conferences in Massachusetts in the 1880s, Blumhofer demonstrated that the growing perfectionist movement within the Reformed tradition paralleled developments within the Wesleyan - Holiness lineage.

Holiness churches, largely a product of the Methodist tradition, follow those who in the ethos of the 19th century camp meeting preserved a variation of the Wesleyan doctrine of «Christian perfection,» emphasizing a postconversion experience of «entire sanctification.»

They not only challenge the consensus of several decades but also suggest the historical conditioning of Holiness theology, raise questions about the varieties of theologies in the New Testament, and focus issues about the historical and theological relationships between Holiness and Pentecostal traditions.

But such seems to be the case presently where those in the Reformed (Knight) and Lutheran (Reumann) traditions remain resistive to women being ordained, while those out of Holiness (Dayton) and Baptist (Lindsell) traditions do not.56 Has personal background influenced exegesis on this point?

Secondly, we have come to significant agreement (although surely with differences remaining) on profound theological issues: on our justification by faith through grace in Jesus Christ; on the proper relationship between Scripture and tradition; on the communion of saints and the universal call to holiness; and on the role of Mary in the life of the Christian and of the church.

Evangelicals in the various Holiness, Wesleyan, and Arminian traditions are, one may suggest, much closer to the Catholic understanding of the relationship between justification and sanctification than they are to the more rigorous Lutheran and Calvinist champions of «justification by faith alone.»

In the Catholic tradition, women have always provided models of holiness for men.

Many contemporary Holiness leaders have come to think of their tradition as a variety of «evangelicalism» with a slightly different belief structure.

The third group, the «Holiness» churches, is the one least noticed or understood by those outside the conservative tradition.

Start a new church and dress a special way and make up some solemn - faced traditions like walking in only 90 degree angles and swinging dusty chunks of roadkill in a golden bowl of «holiness» according to how you «feel» about it?

The tradition states that we always remain children of God, that his transcendent holiness pulsates within us.

One was McIntyre's insistence on total abstinence from alcohol, an issue the Machen group considered a matter of Christian liberty, while the Holiness and pietist traditions had long emphasized the importance of a Christian life separated from the world» no alcohol, tobacco, dancing, cards, or theater, along with no short skirts or bobbed hair for women.

Sukh Shabad has studied and trained with many teachers from many traditions including: Kundalini Yoga with Ravi Singh and received his spiritual name — Sukh Shabad Singh, from Yogi Bhajan; Hatha and Raja Yoga, and Meditation with Dr. Vedula Satyananda Rao - «Babaji»; Tibetan Yoga & Meditation with Alejandro Chaoul - Reich, Ph.D. & Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche; Yin Yoga with Corina Benner; Therapeutic Yoga with Cheri Clampett & Arturo Peal; MEM Gong Yoga with Gong Grandmaster Don Conreaux; Bon Buddhism and Meditation with Latri Geshe Nyima Dakpa Rinpoche & Geshe Murig Nyima Kunchap Rinpoche; Sakya Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism with His Holiness the Sakya Trizin; Qigong Healing and Medical Qigong with Sifu Sat Hon, Master Tianyou Hao, Grandmaster Dr. Chen & Tina Zhang; Zen Buddhism and Meditation with Sensei Janet Jiryu Abels & Sensei Gregory Hosho Abels; Kundalini Maha Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Japa and Meditation with Shri Anandi Ma & Shri Deleepji; Hung - Ga Kung Fu & Shuai Jiao with Sifu Rik Kellerman; and Holy Fire II Karuna Reiki ® with William Lee Rand.