Sentences with phrase «influence over the church»

It is precisely because they knew how to silence themselves before God that women like Teresa of Avila, Julian of Norwich, and Catherine of Siena were able to have so much influence over the Church in times when women had little voice.

In some churches, where the minister has traditionally been a strong, dominant figure with significant power and influence over all decisions affecting the church, many men feel extremely threatened by a woman holding that degree of power and influence over church life.

Not exact matches

The Christian Church, particularly in Europe, was the center of intellectual life for over a millennium and had a powerful influence over it until recent times.

Instead, the expansion of the Church into society reflects a belief that Orthodoxy has a powerful and enduring influence over the Russian imagination.

The survey suggests that while church attendance patterns over the past three and half decades have been most influenced by changes in how often Southerners, Catholics and women go to services, other factors may play a bigger role in the future, Schwadel said, noting how church attendance had stayed mostly steady despite the demographic changes.

Most people have no idea what the Mormon church is about and the influence it has over its members.

Barbour, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Chester, Pennsylvania, from 1933 to 1974 and mentor to Martin Luther King, Jr., during the latter's Crozer Seminary years, amassed such influence over the years that it is said no decision affecting blacks in Chester was made without his input.

Imam Baihaqi was said «to have been the key person behind the church closures and had considerable influence over the government,» reported Open Doors.

Following the Imperial policy of extrapolating the influence of the state over the Church, theologians began to accept more and more government control in ecclesiastical affairs; even priest seminaries were no longer a space free from government intrusion.

Previously the Church, along with the State, was a major direct participant and influence in the public realm, with substantial control over how it was represented in the public realm.

As Baptists, though, the group doesn't necessarily have influence over individual churches, which may or may not participate in the Festival of Hope.

Changing political circumstances altered political ideals over the next seventy years, such that pro-Catholic thinkers such as Félicité de Lamennais gradually began to endorse liberalism's doctrine of religious liberty as a way of providing safe harbor for the Church's social influence within a French state that was no longer officially Catholic.

The influence of the Church over Whitehead's early life was pervasive.

The one benefit the churches might possibly have provided that would almost surely have sustained their governance and influence over the universities and colleges was financial subsidy, whether as direct grants from the churches or as gifts from affluent church members.

«Representative of these various types were men like Roger L. Shinn, who succeeded Niebuhr at Union in the chair of Applied Christianity; George William Webber, founder of the East Harlem Protestant Parish and later president of New York Biblical Seminary; Truman Douglass, leading spirit in the affairs of the National Council of Churches and pioneer in church involvement in human issues; and Martin Luther King, Jr. «73 Niebuhr was at the apex of his influence in the early 1950s and was to remain there for over a decade longer.

The most retrogressive aspects of contemporary society are religions leaders who have zero (ZERO) influence over extremists whose unending violence proceeds unchecked under their own banners, whose churches routinely abandon their principle mandates — the poor, infirmed, jailed, the hungry — to writers who view the thirst of people without spiritual homes as «cop outs».

As the only institutions with direct entree to millions of new families, churches have a strategic responsibility to provide growth experiences for those who have or will soon have awesome influence over the mental health of small children.

This naturally, even unconsciously, influences them, and can lead to the situation where a historian carefully disentangles the original Jesus of history from the Christ of faith of the first - century Church only to reidentify him with the Christ of his own faith and so reinterpret the teaching all over again.

The churches in Canada and the United States were still full (at least by contemporary standards); bishops and moderators had influence in high places; and the clergy were the bright, affable, well - spoken and of course (ostensibly) heterosexual young men (yes of course, men) who had chosen theology over law and medicine.

When the church is consumed and possessed by mortgages, capital campaigns, membership numbers, qualifications for membership or deacon or elder, the variety and format of financial reports, redecorating, ordination policies, the proper delineation of committee responsibilities, the aggregation and strengthening and protection of church hierarchical authority, the preference for political associations and prominence instead of being a voice and influence for justice and compassion, seasonal vestment colors, the abandonment and refusal to acknowledge congregations who dare to be excited by their proclaiming and provoking and living and sharing the Good News, the continual choosing and preoccupation with better organization over better outreach, or what styles of worship are to be offered — then it is time for an earth - shaking, stone - rolling, curtain ripping, hurricane - strength, fiery and noisy transformational revolution that will resurrect the Good News in the body and spirit of communities and individuals.

He would provide a profile of the early Church which was «a religious communion claiming a divine commission, and holding all other religious bodies around it heretical or infidel, a sort of secret society binding its members together by influence and engagement, spread over the whole world, a natural enemy to governments, intolerant and capable of dividing families and breaking laws.

What Jeremy has highlighted is just how much of our belief system has been influenced by church history and politics over 2000 yrs.

When reading about all of the items the church believes is a SIN I came to the conclusion that most religions use guilt to manipulate the masses and thus exert their power and influence over someone.

My hope is that the best elements in the press, in networks and governments, in the schools, colleges, universities and the church, in business, commerce and finance will prevail over the worst, and create a «remnant,» in Arnold's terms, that will have a dominant influence in our society.

As they despaired over fostering change through the process, secular antiwar movements — which strongly influenced church attitudes, both negatively and positively — became extreme in their efforts to awaken a stubborn public.

In the effort to free the Church from local control which he believed made it subservient to secular influences he augmented the power of the bishops over the parish priests.

The vast majority of denominations are wringing their collective hands over shrinking church attendance, diminishing budgets and plummeting cultural influence.

Visting or first beginning to attend a church, the pastor is still just one of many, and deserves respect in that right, but not an influence over me specifically.

As the Pope still has significant influence over the less educated masses in these parts of the World, he has exercised this power by: (a) Using some of the Vatican's incomprehensible wealth to educate these vulnerable people on health family planning and condom use; (b) Supporting government programs that distribute condoms to high risk groups; (c) Using its myriad of churches in these regions to distribute condoms; or (d) Scaring people into NOT using condoms, based upon his disdainful and aloof view that it is better that a person die than go against the Vatican's position on contraceptive use.

«Speaking more generally, this looks to us like a clear example of a wider policy by the Church of England to slowly gain influence and control over former community schools that are now Academies — initially by affiliating with them, before slowly increasing the religious nature of school life.

The BHA has expressed concern at the creeping influence of the Church over Academies without a religious character such as Tudor Grange.

The Russian Orthodox Church has a thousand - year history of strong political as well as spiritual influence over the inhabitants of the Russian state.

Realizing that a string of ritualistic family murders are tied to the places where they happen, the erstwhile former flatfoot plans to burn down an abandoned church to sever Bughuul's influence over the place, only to discover the house next to it is occupied by Courtney Collins (Shannyn Sossamon), a mother of two young sons who's living there on the downlow to escape her abusive husband (Lea Coco.)

She is the survivor of twelve years of Catholic education and credits the Church, its teachings and nuns with being a tremendous influence — for good and ill — over her life...

Domestically, he successfully increased the influence of the crown and its authority over the church and aristocracy, thus consolidating absolute monarchy in France.