Sentences with phrase «in church history»

There has been no perfect period in church history.

First of all, I seriously doubt that there was ever a time in church history that a tape ministry contributed to any kind of substantial church growth.

A battle has been joined that is reminiscent of an earlier episode in church history.

This anthology includes lengthy excerpts from the spiritual writings of notable women in church history — from Perpetua to Mother Teresa to Edwina Gateley.

At no point in church history have so many people written so many books and articles, not to mention blogs, wikis, and e-newsletters, about the Christian faith.

Whatever you decide on, invite a bunch of people over to actually celebrate huge events in Church history.

But St. Patrick is also an significant figure in church history, who Ireland owes much of its Christian heritage to.

Though Robert Morgan (amazingly) finds something significant in church history for every day of the year, they are not (of course) in chronological order.

Later in church history, there was the heresy of Pelagianism.

At one point early in Church history «Christ» was equated with the divine Logos, and there was some disagreement as to how this was related to the man Jesus.

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).

The years leading up to the Second World War — when Cardinal Pacelli, as Vatican Secretary of State, travelled the world — were among the most difficult in Church history, and Mother Pascalina does not disappoint in recounting them.

The events surrounding the famous massacre of Waldensians 1655 is a truly gripping drama in Church history.

In fact, Wesley was confused by the experience, but his perplexity was to lead to a period of soul searching and finally to one of the most famous and consequential conversions in church history.

But, as a determined generalist in church history, he was always alive to the subtle and complex interconnectedness of the events he studied — events he saw not as isolated, opaque moments in the history of religion but rather as translucent windows on to a whole pattern of Christian experience.

It is new probably only in this sense that today this problem has become more urgent, even though it has recurred again and again in Church history ever since gnosticism.

Further, the ordinary Christian unversed in church history could hardly experience changes in Catholic doctrine and life, because his own life was too short and ecclesial development too slow.

They have to make do without ever learning Greek or hearing about the heresies in church history.

His name, best I recall, never came up in Church history classes.

Robert C. Leslie identifies these salient points at which small groups played a vital role in church history: Christ and his disciples, the Apostolic church, Montanism, monasticism, the Waldenses, the Franciscans, the Friends of God, the Brethren of the Common Life, German pietism, the Anabaptists, the Society of Friends, the Wesleyan revival, the Great Awakening, the Iona Community, the Emmanuel Movement, and the Oxford Group Movement (from which came Alcoholics Anonymous).

If her Magnificat is any indication, she is an extraordinary reader of the Bible, lyrically weaving together Jewish scripture into a new song that is perhaps the most frequently sung canticle in church history.

This hardly means that she is anticlerical; some of the most severe satire of the clergy in church history has come from devout Christians incensed at the abuses of their leaders.

CS Lewis is actually the first person in church history to make the logical conclusion that the inevitable result of same sex attraction is celibacy.

Castel Gandolfo (CNN)-- Pope Francis is having lunch Saturday with his predecessor, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, in what may be an encounter unprecedented in Church history.

I am convinced that most of the big theological debates in church history are a result of theological sleight of hand.

Our ability to acknowledge the factors that influence our theological calculations will really help acknowledge an x-factor and the movement of the Holy Spirit throughout the ages in church history.

Nor can we ignore the warning implicit in the iconoclasm that has run deep in church history — in the thought of Origen, Bernard of Clairvaux, Savonarola, Calvin, Barth and others.

I also agree that the vast number of interpretations in Church history makes that very difficult, if we are to use the Scriptures as a standard.

Jeremy and Jeanette, If we're well - versed in church history, we probably know it goes pretty deep.

Thereafter no question was raised about it among orthodox Christians, though it was often neglected in periods when there was little interest in church history.

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is one non-Mennonite theologian who also sees martyrdom as central in church history (see his Why Study the Past?

``... The fact of the matter is that Piper is «on to something» insofar as he is rather seamlessly capitulating to a long - standing tendency in church history.

Working on a doctoral dissertation in Church history at the Gregorian University in Rome, Fr.

Yet we don't have to defend the indefensible in church history or overlook stale and shallow church rituals to embrace the good and needful parts of organized expression of our faith.

One of the things I have been most inspired by in Church history is the ways in which everyday things were often viewed as sacred moments.

Moffett says that one of the reasons for the neglect of the Asian dimension in church history is the comparative paucity of available source materials on eastern roots of Christianity outside the Roman empire.

The story will take account of what is generally included in Church history.

The common life of the secular clergy seemed a footnote in Church history until the 1983 Code legislated for Societies of Apostolic Life - of pontifical or diocesan right - with real autonomy.

He has written widely in church history and theology, especially on Augustine.

One of the foremost feminist theologians of the time, she was trained in church history arid historical theology and has published widely on feminism, the Christian roots of anti-Semitism, and the situation of the Palestinians.

Finally, in 1902, the seminary's position in church history opened up, and that is why the greatest works of the social gospel have such a strong historical bent.

Later a Jewish Christian sect by that name emerged in church history, but Tertullus's designation does not apply to them, for they acquired their name and organization after Paul's time.