Sentences with phrase «in church tradition»

«I came to faith in a church tradition that was suspicious of anything to do with the imagination.

I am thankful to have grown up in a church tradition that emphasized the importance of nurturing a «personal relationship» with God.

At the Council of Trent in the sixteenth century, for example, there was no real theological deepening of the notion of revelation because the main concern was with safeguarding the deposit of faith that the council fathers held to have been passed down in Church tradition under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

Not exact matches

Even if they don't wed in Westminster Abbey (Harry and Markle will be in St. George's Chapel), tradition dictates royal brides send their flowers to the church later.

Modesty has undeniably enjoyed front - page headline status in Christian conversations about sexuality for decades, almost irrespective of particular church tradition.

On Maundy Thursday, Pope Francis chose not to hold the customary foot - washing in one of the main churches in Rome, as is tradition, but went instead to... More

At a time when many Ukrainians are trapped between the failed promises of Marxist utopianism and the often harsh realities of Western materialism, the Orthodox Church is in a position to offer the best aspects of 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.

The reason is this: Christianity through the Catholic Church was evangelizing in the Andean region along with the new Spanish rulers brutally repressed the people and their traditions.

Catholics, in turn, teach that the Magisterium exercised by the successors of the apostles — which they believe is intended by Christ, is guided by the Holy Spirit, and is in clear continuity with the orthodox tradition — enables the Church to explicate the truth of Holy Scripture obediently and accurately.

This superior epistemology enjoys the firm foundation of divine revelation as treasured by Church Tradition and enlightened by faith and the prophetic inspiration of the Holy Spirit, as the Church, with all her members, engages the world in history.

«Mindful attention,» which Schwartz draws from the Buddhist tradition, is a spiritual discipline right in line with the practice of detachment employed by the Church's desert fathers.

Granted, there has been a long and impressive tradition of fighting poverty in the Church.

On the contrary, on the one occasion when Luther's theological proposals received a halfway careful hearing from a representative of the Roman Church, at his meetings with Cardinal Cajetan in Augsburg in 1518, the conclusion reached was that his doctrine of justifying faith was not obviously heretical or in clear opposition to the tradition of the Church.

Acting as it does as a summary and analysis of five decades of Lutheran - Catholic dialogue, 2015's Declaration on the Way: Church, Ministry, and Eucharist will undoubtedly be a helpful touchstone in future ecumenical discussions between the two traditions.

Lasch reminds us that the corrosion of our democratic way of life and especially our public discourse has its roots in widespread distrust of our institutions and the traditions around which they have developed and of which they are the expressions — whether the family, church, and local communities, or private enterprise and all the various levels of government.

But the Church's ambitious hopes for in - churching will make little progress without a vibrant intellectual culture alongside its rich liturgical and monastic traditions.

Sorry to disagree with you but I have no problem with putting muslim «tradition» on the back burner and if you don't like it that's tough, heck, we didn't leave a single intact church steeple in Europe in WWII because they were used by enemy artillery spotters and snipers, why should muslims get a pass, Tradition did not stop muslims from dragging dead US soldiers through Mogadishu nor did it stop them from hanging contractors from under bridges, Osama's body should have been brought back and put on display is a glass box at all three of his sites, allowing those who wanted to view him ample time tradition» on the back burner and if you don't like it that's tough, heck, we didn't leave a single intact church steeple in Europe in WWII because they were used by enemy artillery spotters and snipers, why should muslims get a pass, Tradition did not stop muslims from dragging dead US soldiers through Mogadishu nor did it stop them from hanging contractors from under bridges, Osama's body should have been brought back and put on display is a glass box at all three of his sites, allowing those who wanted to view him ample time Tradition did not stop muslims from dragging dead US soldiers through Mogadishu nor did it stop them from hanging contractors from under bridges, Osama's body should have been brought back and put on display is a glass box at all three of his sites, allowing those who wanted to view him ample time to do so.

They are revealed by God's historical and dialogical self - revelation by words and deeds, and in the fullness of time by God's eternal Son becoming flesh in a certain time and space of history; in church history under the guidance of the Holy Spirit they have to be witnessed to and developed through the living tradition (see the dogmatic constitution Dei Verbum, 2, 8).

Dynamic new churches are being planted in many traditions.

Both the liturgical and theological traditions of the Church present to us certain things that must be said about God as revealed in Christ Jesus.

Too many lies along with Pagan traditions ad Greek mythology are taught in the churches today (Christmas, Easter, Eternal torment in Hell, etc.) This evil plague called religion must go.

In his account, the Church's attempts to tame violence through preaching humility and peace had a negligible effect on the ancient traditions of manliness until its efforts were joined with the state's in the early modern perioIn his account, the Church's attempts to tame violence through preaching humility and peace had a negligible effect on the ancient traditions of manliness until its efforts were joined with the state's in the early modern perioin the early modern period.

If I were advocating for unqualified blessing of same - sex unions in the church, I would hope that I'd have the humility and charity and intellectual honesty to grapple with Scripture and the church's tradition in a way that didn't dismiss it as simply «homophobic» or hopelessly benighted.

Only when this loosely held notion of unity in diversity is held in tension in a community of love can we tolerate, even with wit and a slightly ironic eye, the idea of corporate worship, communal learning, organized fellowship, and the traditions of the church.

Many of these churches are Presbyterian and Calvinist, the same tradition that played such a central role in the rise of democracy in the West.

This interpretation of consensus departs from the Church's tradition, in which decisions are made by majority vote or public acclamation.

The Catholic Church had retrieved lost elements of its own tradition, and learned some new things along the way, in coming to terms with religious freedom and political modernity.

Thus, to invoke the Russian Church's traditions of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries requires us to engage in historical reconstruction rather than to nurture beliefs and practices that are ongoing.

While I agree that the church could definitely be less political and break with tradition in some areas, I think that a lot of this has to do with people hardening their hearts to the truth of the Bible.

If those in the church who are in favor of changing long - held attitudes and ordinances relating to homosexuals were merely cultural relativists with no regard for the Bible or tradition, the debate would be easier.

Understanding this new perspective on church is as difficult today as it was in the days of Jesus for Jews to understand a different perspective on Sabbath, but the basic principles seem to be the same: Church, just like Sabbath, is not supposed to be a bunch of human traditions which have become legalistic laws by which to judge one another's spiritual matchurch is as difficult today as it was in the days of Jesus for Jews to understand a different perspective on Sabbath, but the basic principles seem to be the same: Church, just like Sabbath, is not supposed to be a bunch of human traditions which have become legalistic laws by which to judge one another's spiritual matChurch, just like Sabbath, is not supposed to be a bunch of human traditions which have become legalistic laws by which to judge one another's spiritual maturity.

But I believe that in the place of the legalistic Sabbath traditions, we have substituted in a different burden: church.

Maybe you could bring in Christians from another church tradition or from the other side of the world to come and find fault with how your church is accomplishing (or not accomplishing) your mission.

Against your points of view are the traditions your church people believe in.

Carl Braaten is still a member of the ELCA, though he thinks it a church in which the actual Lutheran tradition «is now marginalized to the point of near extinction.»

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.

I agree when you are show casing narrow minded traditions in church, and I am all for that, but now you are removing one of the most clearly attested teachings of the NT.

The Catholic Church has a hierarchy in order to function and to sustain its teaching of scripture and Tradition for 2000 years.

In sum, McDermott's probing analysis of history, tradition, and orthodoxy never calls the issue what it is: Evangelicals can't define or describe the church beyond personal piety.

In 189 AD, assertion of the primacy of the Church of Rome may be indicated in Irenaeus of Lyons's Against Heresies (3:3:2): «With [the Church of Rome], because of its superior origin, all the churches must agree... and it is in her that the faithful everywhere have maintained the apostolic tradition.&raquIn 189 AD, assertion of the primacy of the Church of Rome may be indicated in Irenaeus of Lyons's Against Heresies (3:3:2): «With [the Church of Rome], because of its superior origin, all the churches must agree... and it is in her that the faithful everywhere have maintained the apostolic tradition.&raquin Irenaeus of Lyons's Against Heresies (3:3:2): «With [the Church of Rome], because of its superior origin, all the churches must agree... and it is in her that the faithful everywhere have maintained the apostolic tradition.&raquin her that the faithful everywhere have maintained the apostolic tradition.»

Convoked by Pope John XXIII, the council engaged in a twofold movement of ressourcement (a return to the often - neglected sources of the Christian tradition) and aggiornamento (an updating of the church's life and doctrine in response to the times).

Pope St. John Paul II's Familiaris Consortio, for example, communicates an interpretation of the Bible and tradition with respect to the issue of marriage and sacramental discipline in the contemporary Catholic Church: Divorced and remarried persons may not receive Communion (Familiaris Consortio § 84).

In response to the Reformation, the Roman Catholic Church came up with a formulation in which Scripture and tradition are received as of equal authoritIn response to the Reformation, the Roman Catholic Church came up with a formulation in which Scripture and tradition are received as of equal authoritin which Scripture and tradition are received as of equal authority.

Another church that comes to mind is Missiongathering in San Diego, which is associated with the progressive denomination The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), but which has a very evangelical «feel» to its worship because it attracts a lot of folks who come from evangelical traditions and enjoy evangelical worship but are looking for a church that welcomes LGBT pchurch that comes to mind is Missiongathering in San Diego, which is associated with the progressive denomination The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), but which has a very evangelical «feel» to its worship because it attracts a lot of folks who come from evangelical traditions and enjoy evangelical worship but are looking for a church that welcomes LGBT pChurch (Disciples of Christ), but which has a very evangelical «feel» to its worship because it attracts a lot of folks who come from evangelical traditions and enjoy evangelical worship but are looking for a church that welcomes LGBT pchurch that welcomes LGBT people.

It may be that in the course of history certain dimensions of saving truth become obscured and must be recovered but it is impossible for a theologian to stand apart from tradition and begin his work ab initio; to do so would be to cut himself off from the Church, which is the source sine qua non of theology, and to deny the historical givenness of Revelation.

I wandered through other church traditions, traditional, contemporary, liturgical, meditative, mystic, seeker - sensitive, emerging, ancient - future, denominational, mega-church, old church, new church, basement church, no church for a while there: you name it, I found my way there and I found the people of God in each place, I did.

Since the book demonstrates so powerfully the case for the return to the pre-Conciliar liturgy, Fr Joseph Fessio, S.J., Editor - in - Chief, Ignatius Press has to temper his own enthusiastic Forward by putting the position of «those who advocate a rereading and restructuring of the liturgical renewal intended by the Second Vatican Council, but in light of the Church's two - thousand - year tradition.»

Should we say, as some inclusivists do, that it is because of Christ's saving mystery, offered to all, that salvation is available to the Hindu, for example, in the sincere practice of his or her faith — that in Christ salvation is mediated to Christians through the church and to non-Christians through other traditions of faith?

Such thought could, of course, be understood as «church theology,» but the tendency of that rubric is to focus attention upon the traditions and current life of the church in a way that is too limiting.