Sentences with phrase «in view of the church»

«22 His method is also seen in his view of the church in the centre of life, living wholly for the world.

Precisely in view of the Church's situation the preachers of the gospel ought not to think themselves condemned to being always on the defensive.

Not exact matches

Quoting Romans 8:23 «we wait eagerly for... the redemption of our bodies» West says that he hopes that his teaching will ultimately impact the Church by shaping our view of and hope in the afterlife as offering us bodily redemption.

The religious among us keep trying to chip away at the separation of church and state by making people recite the pledge of allegiance with the God clause, installing religious symbols and displays on public property, holding prayer breakfasts for politicians, berating the removal of prayer in public schools, trying to pass laws limiting women's access to birth control, and trying to get an amendment passed outlawing abortion (since in their view God creates a soul the moment a sperm enters an egg).

The Reformers vigorously protested what they viewed as deviations from biblical teaching, but they never used Scripture to undermine the Trinitarian and Christological consensus of the early Church embodied in the historic creeds that had come down from patristic times.

Unfortunately, your view is in opposition to the teaching of the Church.

I'm catholic and believe in the religion's core teachings (namely the Gospels), but I've had enough of the ultra-conservative views of the church.

He had been on 60 Minutes discussing his view that the Church was in dire need of female priests.

Mankowski, who holds quite different views on ordaining women, agrees with Weakland that it would have been much better if the writers of the pastoral came right out and said what they mean by lamenting the sins of sexism in a hierarchical church.

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.

Individuals in the church are not perfect but then neither are the ones outside the church; we don't all have the same cultural or political views but then neither does the rest of the world.

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 to do so.

Hence, part of the reason of the concept of the «separation of church and the government... or church and the secular,» so, no religion including Christianity can stomp on the rights of people to express themselves fully and in their own way... whether you agree, disagree or don't have an opinion one way or another on others view and comments... yes...?

Because I knew this wasn't a point of view I'm supposed to have, especially in the Church.

As I imagine is similar in other faiths, it is hard for an active member of the LDS Church to publically maintain political views that fall more in line with the Democratic Party than the GOP.

Imagine a day where christians respect the rights and views of others and actually leave religion in their churches.

I can see how you may view my attendance at a small group Bible study affiliated with a church organization as a contradiction in terms (or at least an issue of semantics.)

Mitt Romney Flip Flops because he makes a decision that usually makes sense... Then he gets a call from the «Prophets» of the LDS church and changes it with no question... is that who you want in office... look at the issues he flipped on... every one of them was changed to an LDS point of view.

5oo, ooo priests for 1.2 billion Catholics - There is the answer to why the abusing priests were tolerated.The conclave elected exactly who they wanted to be Pope - Someone who would not rock the boat.I believe Pope Benedict was advised to retire in light of the Federal indictment pending so this would not involve a standing Pope and the possiblity of him being found guilty.I further think this new election of Pope will allow the Church to change it's stance on the very controvertial issues the Church is facing ie.female priests being one, the decisions appearing more acceptable coming from a new head as opposed to reversed stance of standing Pope.This decision to retire, in the Churchs» view I believe is damage control and not neccessarily Pope Benedict's desire.If looked at for what it is - A very slick maneuver indeed.

But my early days of questioning the church were always in the context of seeking «biblical truth» when I found my views in direct conflict with those expressed in my church.

Campaign language everywhere betrays fears of the loss of American omnipotence — or rather that delusion of superpower, in the view of Frank Church, which dispatches squads of covert agents to police the world.

In support of this view, when Paul speaks of handing two believers over to Satan in 1 Timothy 1:20, they did not die but were still alive and well, and still causing problems for Paul and the church in Ephesus (cf. 2 Tim 2:17; 4:14In support of this view, when Paul speaks of handing two believers over to Satan in 1 Timothy 1:20, they did not die but were still alive and well, and still causing problems for Paul and the church in Ephesus (cf. 2 Tim 2:17; 4:14in 1 Timothy 1:20, they did not die but were still alive and well, and still causing problems for Paul and the church in Ephesus (cf. 2 Tim 2:17; 4:14in Ephesus (cf. 2 Tim 2:17; 4:14).

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

We lack enormous amounts of credibility in terms of how the Church is viewed.

We can not tolerate it any longer in our churches as «another point of view» that goes unchallenged.

Though seminary faculties like to affirm, in principle, a relationship between Christian theology and the life of the church, academic theology tends to view the ministering congregation as an addendum to the really interesting issues of ethics, philosophical and political theology, or social policy.

Not at all like the Religious Extremeists that want to put wpmen back in slavery, taking away her freedoms, viewing gays as sub-human, that can't get past the separation of Church and State, and think that the US was founded on Freedom OF Religion, when, in fact, it was founded on Freedom FROM Religioof Church and State, and think that the US was founded on Freedom OF Religion, when, in fact, it was founded on Freedom FROM ReligioOF Religion, when, in fact, it was founded on Freedom FROM Religion.

Should we throw Augustine out because he held a different view of Creation then some in the contemporary evangelical church?

In the 1980s (I'm not surprised that it took them so long, the wheels of religion run along their own tracks, and slowly) the Lutheran church condemmed their founder's views and struck them out of their literature.

... switch from using a mac to using a pc and expect the same thing... or go back to religion and get the same shunning from the atheists that you got from whatever church that was that you blindly followed... now you get to be the poster child for atheists the same way a repentant drugged up rock star gets to be the poster child for church... except from the atheists» arrogant point of view, you went from uneducated, ignorant, bigoted, intolerant and stupid to being sophisticated, intellectual, open minded and free thinking... in their opinion you were formerly a stupid a s s...

And keep in mind that Gerhard Lenski was of a very Protestant, almost Barthian, view that biblical religion is at war with the religion of communal - institution adherence epitomized by the Catholic Church.

Drew Hart is the author of Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism, which released in January and which tackles police brutality, mass incarceration, antiblack stereotypes, poverty, and everyday acts of racism by placing them in the larger framework of white supremacy.

The church of my youth majored in a miserly view of God's grace.

... They embody a shared interpretation of the Bible, a shared understanding of the gospel, and a shared view of the church and its mission, and when on occasion they differ from each other in detail it is within this overall frame of agreement.»

The Catholic destabilization following the Council was advanced by liberal and progressive forces in the Church, but it had the unexpected consequence of making Catholicism, in the view of evangelicals, less the monolithic threat that they feared.

Remarkably, in view of her later ministry at Our Lady Help of Christians Church, Folkestone, they had married on 24 May, the Feast of Our Lady Help of Christians.

I also find it importnat to realise the early church held a different view of the atonement in my understanding.

For the faithful in Christ can not accept this view, which holds either that after Adam there existed men on this earth who did not receive their origin by natural generation from him, the first parent of all, or that Adam signifies some kind of multiple first parents; for it is by no means apparent how such an opinion can be reconciled with what the sources of revealed truth and the acts of the magisterium of the Church teach about original sin, which proceeds from a sin truly committed by one Adam, and which is transmitted to all by generation, and exists in each one as his own» -LCB- Humani Generis 37).

But we can say, for example, that a religious, theological point of view can illuminate scientific research and can help to extract some coherent meaning... In the Catholic Church, we have a theology of creation whose point of view... gives to evolution an additional meaning which is not directly present in thescientific research, but that scientific research is coherent with this point of vieIn the Catholic Church, we have a theology of creation whose point of view... gives to evolution an additional meaning which is not directly present in thescientific research, but that scientific research is coherent with this point of viein thescientific research, but that scientific research is coherent with this point of view.

If revisionists manage someday to recapture denominational offices and pulpits in large number, the churches will be less concerned to prescribe and implement theologically correct views and more interested in equipping people to do their own thinking about questions of economic policy.

Though they were generally regular, faithful members of Catholic services (until the Reformation), they seem to have viewed the worldly Church establishment in its wealth and power as corrupt.

• «What is the biblical view and Christian experience of the operation of the Holy Spirit, and is it right and helpful to understand the work of God outside the Church in terms of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit?»

Since the belief system of a parish includes not only its formal creeds but also the meanings it assigns to itself and its members as finite bodies, to learn about a church's world view — what it believes is really going on in life — one must listen to the church's stories about its own body and those of the members who constitute it.

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Wogaman, who taught ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary for many years and is now pastor of Foundry Methodist Church in Washington, D.C., tries to be fair to positions deviating from his distinctly leftist views.

In my view its a good thing really, as institutional denominations decline the church of Jesus Christ grows.

In 1967, Anthony Burgess, author of «A Clockwork Orange,» described the pain of being an apostate: «It is with no indifferent eye that I view the flood of worshippers pouring into the Catholic church... I want to be one of them, but wanting is not enough.»

To check the loss of zeal in the churches and to assure a common point of view over against growing opposition, an attempt was made to furnish a careful check on the pastors and congregations.

The Catholic Church endorses a very narrow view of birth control that 90 % of women in American (and 89 % of women who identify as Catholic, according to the latest Gallup poll) disagree with.

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