Sentences with phrase «issues as baptism»

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The topics of repentance and the remission of sins are huge issues within Christian theology, but just as with baptism, these topics are severely misunderstood by Christians when we divorce them from their historical and cultural roots within Judaism.

It is absolutely fair for Wheaton to assess the theological implications of her statement, not only to assess their truth, but also to decide whether such an statement is an open handed or close handed issue for the college (such as baptism, etc.).

The Pope said «It is my hope that your conversations will bear abundant fruit in the examination of such historically controversial issues as the relationship between Scripture and Tradition, the understanding of baptism and the sacraments, the place of Mary in the communion of the Church, and the nature of oversight and primacy in the Church's ministerial structure.

This article appeared as «Issues of Conversion and Baptism in Relation to Mission,» in P. Victor Premasagar, ed., New Horizons in Christian Mission: A Theological Exploration, Gurukul Summer Institute 1999 (Chennai: Gurukul, 2000), pp. 375 — 393.

One of the obvious difficulties with these suggestions is that the fundamental issue as to how the individual churches themselves have internalized different understandings of baptism as being a part of their existence and self - identity, an existence and identity which has very often been at least partially shaped as a reaction to the teachings propounded by other churches, has not been adequately addressed.

As I understand the issue, the LDS church has promised since 1995 to not do proxy baptisms on Jewish holocaust people.