Sentences with phrase «into ordained ministries»

Rivalry is another issue for women moving into ordained ministries.

Welcoming the increase the Bishop of Guildford, Andrew Watson, said: «I am delighted at both the number and the range of those whom God has been calling into ordained ministry over the course of the past year.

Some churches, notably Protestant churches in the Netherlands, have accepted homosexuals into the ordained ministry of the church.

Not exact matches

That sense of calling felt like a hand in the small of my back, gently but firmly steering me towards that cathedral on a July morning and onward into the challenges of ordained ministry.

But pastoral care is the ministry of the whole congregation — not just those individuals who happen to be ordained or called into the formal leadership of the church.

Wesley attended Oxford, proved to be a fine scholar, and was soon ordained into the Anglican ministry.

degree, be ordained or have professional ministry experience is largely due to the entry of many women into the field.

Presumably, then, the commission will take any new or neglected research into account when it revisits this and the question of whether women were ordained to the sacred ministry.

While I'm not quite sure the book deserves the «must - read» status advertised on its cover, I'm certain it will be interesting and useful to anyone wanting insight into life serving within the Church of England, and of particular help to those considering, training for or beginning ordained ministry.

I graduate and am ordained into the ministry of the Presbyterian Church in Canada.

The Reformation, seeking to restore something of the prophetic emphasis, provided the basis of modern understanding by conflating four modes of ministry — priestly, kingly, prophetic, and pastoral — into one problematic, always ambiguous, but powerful model of ordained ministry.

I was about to be ordained into the ministry.

(Permanent deacons are men ordained into the sacramental ministry of the Church and are to be distinguished from «transitional» deacons who are seminarians on their way to priesthood.)

In 1986 I was ordained into the ministry in the Presbyterian Church in Canada.

All the men accepted into such a program are committed to the religious ministry and are ordained by some faith group.

Rejecting, therefore, the Roman Catholic sacrament of ordination as an induction into the status and order of the priesthood, he insisted that no one should be ordained to the ministry unless he had a call from a congregation.