Sentences with phrase «intellectual life of the church»

Today we are in less certain times; the intellectual life of the Church is thwart with uncertainty.

We could add to Marsden's proposals a third constructive approach to engaging Christianity and academic institutions - one that addresses the relationship between the intellectual life of the churches and the religious life of the university.

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.

shrewdly aligned with the American ethos of individual success and self - fulfillment, mainline churches have courageously taken unpopular stands, confronting head - on the diversity of American life, the depth of our social problems and the intellectual challenges to belief.

A lay Catholic theologian, Johnson offers an exegesis of the Nicene Creed (or more precisely, the Nicene - Constantinopolitan Creed), phrase by phrase, demonstrating its intellectual depth and its potential to be a life - giving, freedom - enhancing mechanism in the contemporary Church.

The root cause of this collapse is an intellectual crisis that has affected every aspect of the Church's life.

In the great «transvaluation» that followed, there was no sphere of social, religious, or intellectual life that the Church did not claim for itself; much was abolished, and much of the grandeur and beauty of antiquity was preserved in a radically altered form, and Christian civilization — with its new synthesis and new creativity — was born.

King was an unlikely hero - a prince of the black church, a man of refined and elite tastes who dreamed of the quiet intellectual life of a professor.

Much of the damage that has been done to Catholicism in recent decades — by the abuse scandals, by the ongoing horror stories of mid-twentieth century Catholic life in Ireland, by forms of intellectual dissent that empty Catholicism of the patrimony of truth bequeathed to it by the Lord, by the counter-witness of Catholics in public life who fail to stand firm for the dignity of the human person at all stages of life and in all conditions of life — is a matter of self - imposed wounds, which Church authorities have an obligation to address.

The collapse of Catholic literary life reflects a larger crisis of confidence in the Church that touches on all aspects of religious, cultural, and intellectual life.

In such a situation the providential call assumes increased importance, for the question the Church raises through its various agencies is which young men and women have been endowed by God with the spiritual, moral and intellectual qualities necessary to this work, which of them through the guidance of their lives have been led by God toward the ministry, which of them it ought therefore to call.

One of the fruits of the Great Awakening was a surrender of the Church's mission and message as related to the intellectual, political, and economic life of man.

This is not a recent development, although the disintegration of an intellectual life in the churches is accelerating today.

There is no answer as to what actually happened, but we do know that starting from there the church embarked on the far - reaching intellectual enterprise which is the building of a Christian theology, and philosophy of life, upon the foundation thus laid, and that is an unfinished story.

In Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World: Lessons for the Church from MacIntyre's «After Virtue» (1998), Wilson responds to moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, who concludes his celebrated 1991 critique of modernity by calling for «the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us....

It must mean, however, something dramatic also for the non-Catholic Churches -: the setting aside of that which is at the intellectual and spiritual heart of the division between us: the denial of the Living Magisterium of Christ.

I love art, music, business, and the intellectual life, but my core passion is the church and being a pastor of it.

The German universities expressed less opposition to the growth of Nazism in the 1930's than did the churches and labor unions; their failure at this point has been attributed in large part to their neutral pursuit of truth without concern for the life of the nation.14 By contrast, an example of intellectual responsibility occurred a few years ago when the University of Chicago was building a new cancer research hospital.

In so doing it helped to promote Christian faith in America, but at the same time it de-emphasized the role of the Church by concentrating on an individual experience, and it also made Christianity a stranger to large segments of American intellectual, cultural, and political life.

The Church had lived amid the manifold intellectual and political realities of the modern world long enough to decide effectively what could be assimilated and what should not.

This is not only an intellectual task; the actual life of the churches must be changed dramatically so that Christianity is perceived as a unifying promise, rather than a divisive force, in the shaping of world history.

The third noteworthy feature of a theological school as an «intellectual center of the Church's life» is that its intellectual work is at once disinterestedly theoretical and driven by a passionate interest.

The estrangement between academy and church recounted in The Soul of the American University has implications not only for the position of religion within the university, but also for the position of intellectual life within the church.

As the oldest child in a stable middle class family, Luther endured a childhood of strict discipline at home, school and church that left him with a sense of inferiority, and emerged into university life at a time of great intellectual ferment that challenged the entire educational system as well as the corruptions of a politically powerful church.

We begin that effort by defining the theological school as intellectual center of the Church's life.

But whatever convenience and expediency require about the way in which the unity of theological study be broken up into manageable parts, the first requirements laid on all the specialists in the community seem to be: that their intellectual participation in the life of the Biblical, the historic and the contemporary Church always have in view the common theological object — God and man in their interrelations; and that it always be carried on in acute awareness of the «world» in which the Church has been assigned its task.

As intellectual center of the Church's life it is the place where in specific manner faith seeks understanding.

Wherever and whenever there has been intense intellectual activity in the Church a theological school has arisen, while institutions possessing the external appearance of such schools but devoid of reflective life have quickly revealed themselves as training establishments for the habituation of apprentices in the skills of a clerical trade rather than as theological schools.