Sentences with phrase «liberal ends of the church»

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At the end of the 19th century the Church was beginning to recover from the persecutions and suppressions of the Enlightenment, the French revolution, the Napoleonic era, and the liberal revolutions throughout Europe.

By the end of his Anglican curacy, disillusionment with the liberal, almost secularist, approach which he had found in some of his fellow churchmen, niggling doubts about the validity of Anglican orders and the dawning realisation that the C of E was attempting the impossible by trying to serve both God and State, had convinced Father Ed that he was in the wrong Church.

Part of the reason that liberal churches continue to survive, according to Hayward, is because a proportion of the evangelicals who go to theological college end up adopting a liberal theology.

The more liberal Krishna Kanth, the Governor of Andhra Pradesh, in his address to the Assembly of the National Council of Churches in 1991 and following it in a press interview with Neerge Choudhury (Indian Express 21 Oct. 1991) «called for an end to religious conversion in the country, not by law but by a voluntary consensus of religious leaders», because in his opinion, communal strife is closely linked to conversion.

To these ends a creative liturgy should be one of the greatest natural resources of the liberal church.

Third, in view of scattered signs among some evangelicals of an awakening concern about national and world problems, can all of us in churches — liberal as well as conservative, laity as well as clergy — have the grace to seize every opportunity for dialogue, to the end that we may begin to realize that behind our pluralism lies a God - inspired hunger for a better, more just world?

My father considered himself an «irenic» minister, but managed to split 2 churches at the end of his career — conservative «theologically» and liberal in social and political concerns.

The problem of mainline (liberal) churches in Germany is that everyone go away after the end of a service.

@Civil -, German Church as a whole got sick liberal at the end of 19th century and never recovered since then to this day.