Sentences with phrase «in early church history»

One scholar believes that the reading of 1 Thessalonians was an «event which contributed to the formation of the Christian church at Thessalonica.118 First Thessalonians is an example in early church history where an act of public reading «allowed the believers at Thessalonica to come into existence as the church of God.

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There are so many things that have faced human society that were completely incomprehensible to the original disciples and apostles, the early church, and yet the church endures, the church survives because the Gospel isn't tied to one particular time in history, one particular school of thought, one particular framework.

I first picked up the book a few years ago in hardcover and thought it was extremely useful then as really the only somewhat reliable source of early church history.

Leigh E. Schmidt is assistant professor of church history in the Theological and Graduate Schools of Drew University and the author of Holy Fairs: Scottish Communions and American Revivals in the Early Modern Period.

Centuries of honest textual criticism, archeology and history are virtually unanimous in their agreement that two of the Gospels are eye - witness accounts, two are commissioned investigations by the early church and all of the canonical Epistles were written by first - generation apostles.

Few things are uglier than a thoroughly irascible person, and it is clear why very early in the history of the church anger came to be regarded as one of the seven deadly vices.

In the Churches of the Reformation the immediate result was, undeniably, an outburst of religious spontaneity such as marks periods of expansion and revival, comparable with prophetic movements in the early Church and in the history In the Churches of the Reformation the immediate result was, undeniably, an outburst of religious spontaneity such as marks periods of expansion and revival, comparable with prophetic movements in the early Church and in the history in the early Church and in the history in the history of

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

I The early Church father Tertullian asked a famous question, one that has been asked again and again in the history of the Church, and that I would like to ask again: «What does Athens have to do with Jerusalem?»

The product of a church history of sex negative hysteria started by deeply disturbed early church fathers bearing little to no basis in honest scriptural teaching.

In the early days of church history it was a common baptismal practice for those entering the water to lay aside their old clothes, depicting their surrender of the former life of sin and death.

Early Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth - Century America by Elizabeth Clark University of Pennsylvania, 576 pages, $ 69.95 If you wish... to understand German thought,» the German theologian August Tholuck wrote an American student in 1839, «I....

It is a sheer fact, undisputed by any who have knowledge of what transpired in early Christian history, that the Christian Church developed its patterns of thought, its theology, through the constant interaction of the biblical witness and the «non-biblical» environment in which the primitive Christian community found itself.

The first chapter gives a brief overview of the history of psychiatry, beginning in ancient Greece, describing how mental illness has been regarded and treated through the ages; along the way, it debunks the myth that the early Church saw all mental illness as diabolic.

For most of the Church's history (the early Church, the Church during medieval times, and the Reformation era), the Old Testament was read in this way — as a book about Christ and the Church.

Baptism in the Early Church: History, theology, and liturgy in the first five centuries.

In a word, just as the earliest Christian community rested back firmly and surely on the historical reality of Jesus, so there has never been a time in the subsequent history of the church, regardless of how ideally Jesus may have been conceived, when a demonstration of his merely mythical character would not have struck at the foundations of its lifIn a word, just as the earliest Christian community rested back firmly and surely on the historical reality of Jesus, so there has never been a time in the subsequent history of the church, regardless of how ideally Jesus may have been conceived, when a demonstration of his merely mythical character would not have struck at the foundations of its lifin the subsequent history of the church, regardless of how ideally Jesus may have been conceived, when a demonstration of his merely mythical character would not have struck at the foundations of its life.

In fact, however, as I have indicated, I do not think that the Synoptic traditions should be taken for the most part as factual history, but rather as reflections, cast in narrative form, of the theological thinking of the early Church about the Easter appearances and of various current controversies about theIn fact, however, as I have indicated, I do not think that the Synoptic traditions should be taken for the most part as factual history, but rather as reflections, cast in narrative form, of the theological thinking of the early Church about the Easter appearances and of various current controversies about thein narrative form, of the theological thinking of the early Church about the Easter appearances and of various current controversies about them.

He and Other remarkably popular visionary leaders caused the period of the early republic to become, according to historian Nathan Hatch, «the most centrifugal epoch in American church history.»

Ernst Troeltsch, writing at the turn of the century, saw them at work in the early church and watched them erupt now and again throughout church history.

In the history of the early Christian church, they believed that Jesus would return in «their» life time but he didn'In the history of the early Christian church, they believed that Jesus would return in «their» life time but he didn'in «their» life time but he didn't.

The author believes that contemporary expressions of civil religion in churches and politics mark a new departure into apostasy, corrupting the more legitimate subordination of politics to religion that typified earlier periods in American history.

However, between the debate in the early church and the contemporary debate lies a long and tragic history of estrangement and, in numerous instances, of the church's participation in persecution of Jews.

There are more than 25,000 copies of these gospels from very early in the church history.

European and American scholars reflected on model changes in Christianity in different periods of its history: the early church and the patristic, medieval scholastic, Reformation and Counter-Reformation, Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment periods.

At an early stage in the church's history a process of de-Judaization was set in motion — a process that through the centuries has deprived the church of some of the richest elements of its Hebrew heritage.

Others which could be explained in detail are the testimony of the early church, the witness of history and archaeology, and the evidence of changed lives throughout the centuries, to name but a few.

(J.W.C. Ward, A History of the early Church, p. 99) In this period the Church not only grew numerically, but also strengthened itself in its organization and power by creating a monarchical bishop who had the sole authority over the Church and who really became the emperor of the ChurcIn this period the Church not only grew numerically, but also strengthened itself in its organization and power by creating a monarchical bishop who had the sole authority over the Church and who really became the emperor of the Churcin its organization and power by creating a monarchical bishop who had the sole authority over the Church and who really became the emperor of the Church.

An effort to analyze the authority of the ministry as this was exercised and recognized in the early and medieval Church and in the centuries immediately after the Reformation would lead us deep into social history and psychology, into theology and political science.

Reading the teachings of Jesus and studying early Church history shows - Christians were Socialists in the best possible way.

In the discourse itself (Luke 17:22 - 37), Jesus anticipates the early church's perplexity over the nonappearance of the supernatural Son of man, the divine being who will come and usher in the final days at the end of historIn the discourse itself (Luke 17:22 - 37), Jesus anticipates the early church's perplexity over the nonappearance of the supernatural Son of man, the divine being who will come and usher in the final days at the end of historin the final days at the end of history.

In the face of capitalistic globalization, disciples of Jesus may find a better inspiration in Jesus himself and in the early Church rather than in subsequent period of Church history, when the Church was compromised with political and socioeconomic poweIn the face of capitalistic globalization, disciples of Jesus may find a better inspiration in Jesus himself and in the early Church rather than in subsequent period of Church history, when the Church was compromised with political and socioeconomic powein Jesus himself and in the early Church rather than in subsequent period of Church history, when the Church was compromised with political and socioeconomic powein the early Church rather than in subsequent period of Church history, when the Church was compromised with political and socioeconomic powein subsequent period of Church history, when the Church was compromised with political and socioeconomic power.

Since early in the Church's history the Old and New Testament have been recognized as its «Canon», as authoritative over all other writings, beliefs and opinions.

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.

Hans Lietzmann was teaching the history of the early church, and Adolf von Harnack, Karl Holl, and Reinhold Seeberg were in one way or another connected with theology.

So it seems all the more difficult to accept the Bible as authoritative just because somebody — tradition or the early Church — says so, when in fact these somebodies did not know as much about the Bible's history and background and diverse elements as we do today.

This is immediately followed by the assertion that the Church's position «is grounded in a proper view of economics, true to the etymology of the term, which emerged in ancient civilizations and in early Christian history to describe the arrangement of a household — God's household, which is ordered and open to those who long to sit at the table which they helped set.»

And I would say that one of the great dangers is that in choosing an online community, we only have virtual friends and virtual communication without the depth of relationships that marks Jesus, the early Church and Christians throughout history.

However, to indict Constantine and the early historical Christianity in this way is at best simplistic, and in majority of cases betrays much ignorance of church factual history.

The leading English divines have similarly rooted their theological life in the gigantic figures of early church history.

In spite of the diversity in the resurrection narratives there is one important common theme which C. F. Evans draws to our attention when he says, «The one element which the traditions, in all their variety, have in common is that the appearance of the risen Lord issued in an explicit command to evangelize the world, yet the early decades of the history of the church, in so far as they are known to us, make it difficult to suppose that the apostles were aware of any such command.&raquIn spite of the diversity in the resurrection narratives there is one important common theme which C. F. Evans draws to our attention when he says, «The one element which the traditions, in all their variety, have in common is that the appearance of the risen Lord issued in an explicit command to evangelize the world, yet the early decades of the history of the church, in so far as they are known to us, make it difficult to suppose that the apostles were aware of any such command.&raquin the resurrection narratives there is one important common theme which C. F. Evans draws to our attention when he says, «The one element which the traditions, in all their variety, have in common is that the appearance of the risen Lord issued in an explicit command to evangelize the world, yet the early decades of the history of the church, in so far as they are known to us, make it difficult to suppose that the apostles were aware of any such command.&raquin all their variety, have in common is that the appearance of the risen Lord issued in an explicit command to evangelize the world, yet the early decades of the history of the church, in so far as they are known to us, make it difficult to suppose that the apostles were aware of any such command.&raquin common is that the appearance of the risen Lord issued in an explicit command to evangelize the world, yet the early decades of the history of the church, in so far as they are known to us, make it difficult to suppose that the apostles were aware of any such command.&raquin an explicit command to evangelize the world, yet the early decades of the history of the church, in so far as they are known to us, make it difficult to suppose that the apostles were aware of any such command.&raquin so far as they are known to us, make it difficult to suppose that the apostles were aware of any such command.»

The church possesses the Holy Scriptures, which are the record of the formative (and because they come from that earliest age in one sense also can serve as normative) period of the church's history.

Wimber believed power evangelism was the most effective means of evangelism in the early church and power evangelism was present during periods of great missionary expansion and renewal throughout church history.

Before you scoff, there is hardly a fraternal church - related insurance company» Thrivant for Lutherans, for instance» that does not have in its history from a century and a half ago the early experience of stern opposition from pastors on exactly those same grounds.

Declaring early in American history that the Constitution was «godless» because it failed to acknowledge the authority of Jesus Christ, the church up until a generation ago practiced «political dissent,» not allowing members to vote, hold public office, or take oaths of allegiance to the flag or the Constitution.

It is not uncommon to distinguish between the Jesus of history and the Jesus of theology — between the «real» Jesus, who walked the ways of Palestine, and the beliefs about him which developed in the church — and to suppose that within those two terms the whole meaning of Jesus in the early church is contained.

In regard to the actual formulation of the criterion we have attempted, it should be noted that we are still insisting on the importance of establishing a history of the tradition and of restricting ourselves to the earliest stratum of that tradition; in our view, material dependent upon other material already present in the tradition is necessarily a product of the ChurcIn regard to the actual formulation of the criterion we have attempted, it should be noted that we are still insisting on the importance of establishing a history of the tradition and of restricting ourselves to the earliest stratum of that tradition; in our view, material dependent upon other material already present in the tradition is necessarily a product of the Churcin our view, material dependent upon other material already present in the tradition is necessarily a product of the Churcin the tradition is necessarily a product of the Church.

David J. Bosch has described the controversies as a crisis «more radical and extensive than anything the Church has ever faced in her history «21 By the early 1970s there were serious misunderstandings between the Evangelicals and the Ecumenicals.

There were many theological ideas within the early church that I do not agree with, especially at this time in the history of the church (as I discuss further below).

Yet members of both churches have maintained an abiding — some might say excessive — interest in their shared early history.