Sentences with phrase «in modern churches»

The tendency toward pluralism and the participation of the schools in the confusion of churches and ministers becomes even more apparent in their efforts to add to the traditional core of theological studies new disciplines which are to serve as bridges between the heritage and modern men, or, more immediately, between it and the needs of ministers in modern churches.

I think if I can hear some decent answers on these questions, I will feel a lot better about «tithing» as it is taught in our modern churches.

Perhaps one of the reasons we have so many problems in modern churches is because we've stopped having pastors, and instead we have teachers and administrators.

Tithing (as taught in modern churches) is legalist.

It is not clear how Volf's perspectives about ordination address this «culture of professionalism» in modern churches that draws a sharp demarcation between clergy and laity and pays no mind to the doctrine of the Trinity.

Far from seeking his own advancement, each move up the echelons of the episcopal ladder has been met with surprise by Justin Welby, perhaps influenced by the fact he was told there wasn't «place for him in the modern Church of England» when he first applied for ordination.

When it comes to feelings about the Bible and actually reading and applying its teachings, there is a major cognitive dissonance in the modern Church.

Blunders have loomed large in modern church history.

I can love God and still think we aren't doing what's right in the modern church.

It overlooks the fact that the original or classical evangelicalism of the 18th and 19th centuries was united around a constellation of concerns which in the modern church have been divided up between the left and right: Reformation orthodoxy, the spiritual renewal of the church, Christian unity, evangelism and missions, the reformation of manners, and social reform.

The pastoral director is indeed responsible in the modern church for a highly complex organization.

What may seem obvious in modern church circles about welcome, and musical and cultural engagement, was revolutionary when Chuck Smith first did it in the 1960s.

This model if discipleship and evangelism is really revolutionary, at least in our modern church.

This was never going to last, since heresy and relativism had, of course, never disappeared from the «papal agenda» and neither — perhaps more to the point — had his (and his predecessor's) analysis that disunity in the modern church was the result of a clash between two different interpretations of the Council itself, one right, the other wrong: as Benedict once more explained it, as his first Christmas as Pope approached in December 2005, «On the one hand, there is an interpretation that I would call «a hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture» [i.e., the line peddled by The Tabletfor thirty years]; it has frequently availed itself of the sympathies of the mass media, and also one trend of modern theology.

This is a quote from Alan Knox: «The biggest problem in the modern church is not trying to recreate the first century church today.

It was just a spur - of - the - moment rant born of frustration to be honest because even though there is amazing theological basis for this kind of a marriage it never seems to make its way out of the silo of academia or even strong local churches so sometimes it feels like the popular and prolific teaching in the modern Church leans more towards a form of soft patriarchy.

Many in the modern church find this radical posture institutionally and personally threatening.

However, the instructions 1 Timothy 2:8 — «I want men EVERYWHERE to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or disputing» (emphasis mine) is taken as a sort of suggestion that need not be directly enforced in the modern church.

Empire building is a major problem in the modern church.

The most frustrating thing about our doctrine in the modern church is that the unbelievers who have never been to church, the agnostics, those who are out rightly atheist, don't have to fight with whether they are supposed to dominate the earth or not, they just go ahead and do it

Not exact matches

That's the vision of Harvard geneticist George Church, who has been experimenting with recreating an actual Wooly Mammoth by combining DNA from one of the long dead creatures found frozen in Siberia with material from modern elephants.

«The McMass Project is helping churches keep pace in the modern world.»

This year, the destinations range from ancient ruins in South America to modern wonders in Asia, stunning churches in Italy to town plazas in Spain.

Any large - scale human cooperation — whether a modern state, a medieval church, an ancient city or an archaic tribe — is rooted in common myths that exist only in people's collective imagination.

MLK Now, in its third consecutive year focused on the contributions of women to the modern movement for parity in the celebration of the ideals of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was held at Riverside Church Jan. 15, 2018, the site where Dr. King gave his controversial 1967 «Beyond Vietnam» speech.

Very well located in the central distric of Paris — between the Center Pompidou (Paris Museum of Modern art), the iconic Stravinsky fountain and Saint - Merri Church — myCowork Beaubourg opened in august 2017.

The topics and texts include some esoteric items, such as the ranking of churches and discussion about a common calendar; but they also include problems that emerge from adapting an ancient faith to a modern reality — like precepts of fasting and, in particular, regulations of marriage in a multicultural and interreligious world.

Th UK Methodist Church I go to basically has the «ordinary good manners» rules you might expect to find anywhere in society (if you weren't busy being too modern to believe in manners at all) and I've seen no trace of any other rule.

The PCA and other churches often offer a more «contemporary» worship option, with contemporary praise music, a more modern feel, and maybe even a pastor who preaches in jeans.

I am pretty sure when they revamped back in the day to a oil heating system at my mom's home church, that was a big modern step for them from the wood burning stoves.

The Mormons got this right, and as explained in Corinthians, the modern christian churches have lost the principle of baptism for the dead... and ultimately lost the doctrine of a just God.

Jesus was never a republican and would have lost his temper in the modern day churches with politically infused teaching.

But the church is not in possession of a tax code, a budget plan, or a one - size - fits - all solution to modern woes like the cost and availability of health care.

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Levy, a professor of historical theology at Providence College, overturns the image of a placid medieval Church and shows instead that the crises of interpretive authority that we associate with the early modern period in fact have their roots in the turbulent controversies of the Middle Ages.

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There is a story of a churchwarden (senior lay person) who went to hear a modern theologian speak — in the questions he got up and said that he was disappointed that his vicar wasn't there because that was the kind of thing he wanted to hear in his church.

The Catholic church is loosing member in the modern society because of its failure to understand the real world.

The founding fathers almost got it right, instead of simple separation of church and state, they should have clearly stated that there is no place for religion in the modern world.

For instance, an attempt to root out modern elements in the church ought to be viewed with the same suspicion we should have for any systematic program of destruction.

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.

I'm not a fan of modern - day christianity and the close - minded nature of some of its followers, but if this kid has found some peace with his lot in life due to his relationship with this church, I'm not going to hate on it.

This led Luther eventually to conclude that the Roman Church was irrevocably committed to the claim that the authority of the pope stood even above Holy Scripture and it was in this context that he came, over the next several years, to believe that the papacy was the prophesied Antichrist of the last days, a conviction he then held to his dying day with a literalistic fervor that his modern interpreters have rarely been willing to take as seriously as he did.

From the religious atrocities of the reformation and the counterreformation, the inquisition, several dozen crusades, to the modern day Church protecting pedophile priests, and insisting on no birth control in AIDS ridden countries, and mindless zealots trying to pretend that what has been proven by science should be subsumed under their fairy tales.

Mormons believe in modern prophesy and messages from God, so The Book of Mormon and teachings of the church have the ability to change.

Overall, he has produced an impressive body of work which, thankfully, demonstrates that liturgical arts (which Schickel prefers to call «ritual arts» because «it stresses the way in which these objects participate in the drama of religious ritual») can be tastefully done in a modern idiom without lapsing into the triteness or sentimentality that plagues so many of our newer churches.

Why should that great accomplishment — arguably the most notable in the modern history of Vatican diplomacy — be compromised, Vatican II undermined, and Church law de facto suspended, to mollify totalitarians determined to make the Catholic Church a branch of the Chinese communist state?

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.

Fellowship among believers is important, but there is no place in the Bible that teaches or defends the modern practice of «church.»