Sentences with phrase «in ecclesial»

It appears to offer a way to break log - jams such as that involved in the ecclesial and sacramental status of those who have «remarried» after a divorce.

Any teaching that reflects a high level of representation in the ecclesial community possesses authority.

In classic style the book collects together more than a dozen discussions by authors, varying in their ecclesial loyalty devoted to particular aspects of inter-denominational theological conflict (although one contributor from an Eastern Orthodox perspective - David Bentley Hart - allows himself to get in some powerful blows against some of his peers in his own camp).

As we haveseen with the aid of Saint Augustine's pastoral theology itself refined in the crucible of an ancient ecclesial crisis, that prayer in its original form gave authentic voice to the lay faithful's indispensable role in ecclesial reconciliation.

According to Henri De Lubac, the dominance of such an impersonal ecclesiology leads to the following problems in ecclesial life: a dry practice of the faith; an abstract theology which is expressed in objective rather than personalist categories; and a danger of reducing theological mysteries, as well as ecclesial relations, to the impersonal.8

Sacramental Ministry: In Persona Ecclesiae None of the preceding means to say, however, that Augustine denied the ordained ministry its proper role in ecclesial reconciliation.

It springs from theological reflection on what reception has meant in the ecclesial tradition and what it can mean today in the context of ecumenism.

Without understanding words about God, how might men affirm the faith defined in ecclesial creeds?

A standard Protestant objection to Catholic Mariology is that she is not as important in scripture as she has become in ecclesial traditions.

This is a question that has been debated in ecclesial circles ever since the Consilium ad Exsequendam Constitutionem de Sacra Liturgia, the group charged with implementing Vatican II's changes, finished its work in 1970.

But it will bring the churches together in their ecclesial life — in membership, mission and ministry — and it takes seriously the valuable diversity possible within organic unity.

Even in a monastery one has to scream No to the conglomeration of pre-Vatican II trivialities that seem to hang on in the ecclesial body like so many forms of staph become immune to penicillin.

The introduction to notes that the book's essays «focus on the urgent and far - reaching changes in ecclesial governance, administrative style, and financial accountability called for if the congregation of the faithful in the future is to fulfill its hallowed aspiration to be the salt of the earth and the light of the nations.»

A top - notch studio specializing in ecclesial art had drawn renditions of them.

But this does not dispense us from making plans, and even in ecclesial matters it does not permit us to live from day to day, wanting to hold God responsible for what man has to do.

Third, the justification of the believer is set down in an ecclesial order of law and thus the believer can share in this gift of justice only within the Church.

Now, however, students carry out their ministry in ecclesial settings.

So perhaps one way to move beyond a debilitating polarization in the ecclesial realm (I dare not proffer any suggestions regarding the political realm) is for all my fellow dogmatists to aspire to become mystagogues.

As for the latter, those worried about another Catholic slide into incoherence should have faith in the ecclesial experience of the last three decades, which has taught enduring lessons about how Catholicism can not merely survive, but flourish, amidst the cultural acids of post-modernity — if it holds fast to a dynamic orthodoxy lived with compassion and solidarity.

This is why our beatitude also depends on our belief in the ecclesial Creed that concerns the triune God.

Not exact matches

Patriarch Bartholomew's first move could be to normalize the canonical standing of the ecclesial bodies that are presently not in communion with other Orthodox Churches.

We respectfully submit the following considerations and conclusions to the ecclesial communities and transdenominational fellowships of which we are part, with the hope that they will be received and examined as possible contributions to our better understanding of one another and our greater unity in Christ's truth.

It seems she takes pleasure in nurturing that persona and is unaware of how her ecclesial elitism is one of the core problems driving people away from organized religion.

«In the eyes of most Orthodox,» the report continued, «these new ecclesiological and controversial anthropological innovations in the Lutheran world constitute radical challenges and serious obstacles to the Orthodox - Lutheran theological dialogue and to its original aim, namely, the promotion of mutual ecclesial rapprochement and, eventually, of Church unity.&raquIn the eyes of most Orthodox,» the report continued, «these new ecclesiological and controversial anthropological innovations in the Lutheran world constitute radical challenges and serious obstacles to the Orthodox - Lutheran theological dialogue and to its original aim, namely, the promotion of mutual ecclesial rapprochement and, eventually, of Church unity.&raquin the Lutheran world constitute radical challenges and serious obstacles to the Orthodox - Lutheran theological dialogue and to its original aim, namely, the promotion of mutual ecclesial rapprochement and, eventually, of Church unity.»

All who truly believe in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord are brothers and sisters in the Lord even though they are not in full ecclesial fellowship.

This failure, he suggests, then paved the way for a modern, hierarchical reconfiguration of ecclesial authority, in which Church authorities took a more decisive role in the determination of doctrine.

The subtlety of the Second Vatican Council's statement in Nostra Aetate that the «Catholic Church rejects nothing of what is true and holy in [other] religions» has often been missed by Catholics on both sides of the ecclesial aisle.

As for the Orthodox, «Pope Benedict emphasizes that we are already in nearly full ecclesial communion with these churches.»

The SBC, with about fifteen million members, is the largest Protestant ecclesial community in this country.

Even if younger Catholics are far from unanimous in their support of Weigel's positions, they nonetheless are not consumed by the theological and ecclesial power - struggles that have afflicted the American church for the past 40 years.

The founding fallacy in the new church was a «defective ecclesiology» that provided for governance by a lay majority, dominated under a quota system by minorities and feminists, in which theologians were marginalized and issues of race and gender took precedence over traditional ecclesial and confessional concerns.

program, students can continue their contextual education through a variety of internships, including clinical pastoral education, campus ministry and Christian education, as well as in other ecclesial settings in the U.S. and abroad.

Many are in traditional parishes, though our definition of ecclesial includes campus ministry and other forms of ministry.

Bonhoeffer's early and consistent resistance to the intrusion of Nazi ecclesial, political and military machinations is well known: his bold involvement in the Confessing Church, his directorship of the underground seminary community at Finkenwalde (from which time we have his book Life Together), his summons to costly discipleship, the increasing repression of the mid-1930s and his decision to return to Germany in 1939 (although he had the opportunity to become an exile in the United States).

I agree in principle with Hutchens, Kleist, and Bischoff that the Achilles» heel of evangelicalism has been its ecclesiology» or more precisely its «ecclesial atomism,» in Ephraim Radner's phrase.

Some hold that numerous bishops have failed because of their complicity in corrupt ecclesial structures, while others believe that these leaders lacked the courage to teach unpopular truths and to govern their own dioceses.

The theological and ecclesial fault lines that had begun to surface within the conciliar majority (as opposed to a more conservative and Roman minority) toward the end of the council now appeared in full view.

In the review, I found it difficult to understand how any ecclesial community could have real interpretive authority under these circumstances.

In the 20th century individual clergy coming into the Catholic Church from ecclesial bodies separated from the Catholic Church at the Reformation, were given special permission to be ordained as Catholic priests.

The statement, published in the New York Times and several other newspapers, was intended as «a thoughtful Jewish response» to the «dramatic and unprecedented shift» that has occurred in Jewish - Christian relations, not only through reformulation of Christian teachings but through explicit ecclesial statements of remorse on the part of both Catholics and Protestants.

- rather than give them the independent ecclesial existence envisaged in Anglicanorum coetibus.

So one might say there is nothing new in the study, except that increased «fluidity» might be bad news for those traditions, such as Catholicism, with a strong connection between religious identity and ecclesial adherence.

Associations and Ecclesial Movements are invited to promote specific initiatives which, through the contribution of their proper charism and in collaboration with their local pastors, will contribute to the wider experience of the Year of Faith.

Recently, in his first Encyclical Deus Caritas Est, Pope Benedict has beautifully set the goodness and delight of the love of man and women — and indeed wider loves — in the context of the sacrificial love of agape and the ecclesial service of caritas.

His deep ecclesial sensibility, so at odds with the autonomy project that warps both Church and culture today, is nicely captured in an incident from his life.

More to the point, the context speaks about confession of faith and love of one another — are these regulative statements or just as conveniently non-binding on you, someone who clearly does not take much joy in the fact that the bible * instituted * ecclesial offices?

This is where the strength of lay ecclesial movements can bear fruit in the Catholic Church.

Jesus «gave up his Spirit» on the cross, which anticipates the gift of the Spirit to the «ecclesial community» in serving as the Lord served.

As I wrote in a book on this entire problem, published in 1997 and entitled The Roman Option, «I do not believe that the ecclesial entity that Forward in Faith has created is intended, even by them, as a permanent structure: it is a provisional solution, a desert encampment.»

The Catholic faith is not just a faith of words, not just a message, not just a doctrine nor simply a moral code; it is fullness of life in Christ Jesus, and therefore it is also ecclesial, liturgical, devotional, Eucharistic.