Sentences with phrase «insist upon a church»

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To be a theological liberal means to insist upon a significant degree of freedom from strict dogmatic formulations and church discipline.

Meanwhile you assail the church and insist on tainting our children with the lie of homosexuality, being taught in our schools upon your insistence.

I will say, though, that no «fundamentalist» Mormon would sanction the marriages you're referencing, which stand in direct opposition to the principles of their Church, which absolutely insists upon upholding the law of the land.

Against the modern emphasis on truth's relativity and emotion's primacy, it is tempting to insist upon philosophic objectivity in the Church — the world has too much subjectivity as it is.

Childs has decisively altered the way in which interpreters like myself, who are situated in the church, do interpretation; moreover, even those who disagree with his perspective, sometimes vociferously, must struggle with the questions upon which he has insisted and the perspective he has legitimated by the power of his argument.

If this divine causality is insisted upon in the official teaching of the Church in the precise case of the origin of the human soul, that does not of course mean that a divine causality of that kind is found nowhere else.

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 Church.

In Wagner's mechanism, the seventh sign of church growth insists upon priorities arranged in biblical order.

It is so to this day; for we greatly lessen the effectiveness of the Christian message if we insist upon getting it all inside the four walls of past history, ignoring the present reality of the risen, glorified Christ who still has words to say to his church and to the world through his Spirit.

He pointed the church men and women toward the upper echelons of their denominations as places to begin their funding drive, at the same time insisting that they also set up a dues - paving system for area congregations that would cost each, depending upon size, from $ 500 to $ 3,000 a year.

Kabel I am a mulish and I live in US, I actually had church people knock on our door and asking us that Jesus, peace be upon him, love you and give us booklet to study and read, they even brought bible in my language to read... we had to tell them we have our own believes but they kept insisting... the came several times within months in our house and each time my mom would invite them and serve them tea...