Sentences with phrase «liturgical practices of the church»

In this way the overall theme moves chapter by chapter from the liturgical actions of the Old Testament to the present day liturgical practice of the Church.

Not exact matches

While any fair - minded high - church reader of Ross's work should be able to finish this book with a greater understanding of evangelical liturgical practices, I am not sure that he will come away from this book feeling more sympathetic to low - church evangelicalism.

She cites John's emphasis on personal faith, de-emphasis of high offices, and prioritization of Christology as ways in which this particular gospel has deeply influenced low - church liturgical practices.

Attempts to compare evangelical liturgical practices to those of more high church traditions are often doomed from the start because of the fundamentally different assumptions that undergird both.

In her book, Melanie Ross has provided us with an affectionate framing of evangelical liturgical practices that will surely bring a greater and much - needed clarity to the conversation between evangelicals and high - church Christians, if not a greater sympathy.

As a result, evangelical liturgical practices tend to be far more fluid than the practices of more high church traditions, as the practices flow from a belief that spiritual regeneration precedes liturgical practice — and regeneration can not be reduced down to easily identified physical characteristics.

It resulted in a Church that consciously retained a large amount of continuity with the Church of the Patristic and Medieval periods in terms of its use of the catholic creeds, its pattern of ministry, its buildings and aspects of its liturgy, but which also embodied Protestant insights in its theology and in the overall shape of its liturgical practice.

In his reflections on theology and politics, Catholic theologian William T Cavanaugh has focused attention on how Christian liturgical practices embody and inform — or should embody and inform — Christian political witness, His book Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics and the Body of Christ (Blackwell) is about the Roman Catholic Church's responses to the rule of Augusto Pinochet in Chile during the 1970s.

The pope explained it in terms of the fittingness that the Son of God should have such a mother, the Church's liturgical practice in celebrating the Feast of the Conception of Mary, and the teaching and practice of previous popes, which he reviews at some length.

Possibly» this omission merely reflects the liturgical practice of a different group of churches.

For Hauerwas and Marshall, the postliberal turn to Aquinas and the spiritual practices of the liturgical churches is linked to the original postliberal project of rethinking Christian orthodoxy in a postliberal spirit.

Because of such contacts, the St. Thomas Christians were greatly influenced by the ecclesiastical and liturgical practices of the Persian church.

In response, I would recommend a liturgical approach to evangelism, one that is based on the evangelical practices of the church in the third century.

It is quite staggering how many students do not understand some of the most simple doctrines and liturgical practices and, indeed, do not accept, or feel uncomfortable with the Church's teaching on moral issues.

Again, liturgical practice encourages this belief: many of us hardly hear anything read in Church except the Scriptures of the New Testament.

This way of speaking about scripture is rooted in the spiritual practices of the liturgical churches, Childs observes, not «the way the Bible actually functions within the church» — apparently meaning, in this case, the nonliturgical churches.

The duty of the priests is to discipline the common worship life of the people so that it conforms as closely as possible to what has been prescribed as «proper» liturgical practice by the church hierarchy.

In the practice of most Christian churches, and especially in Roman Catholicism, there has been a certain reluctance to admit emotion into liturgical celebrations.

To these three reasons I might now add that a fourth — that a reorientation of priest and people during of the Liturgy of the Eucharist would bring Latin - rite Catholic practice into harmony with the practice of the Eastern Catholic Churches and the Orthodox Churches — and a fifth: that this re-orientation would place the reformed liturgy of Vatican II in continuity with an ancient liturgical tradition of the Church.

Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, caused a rumpus earlier this summer by proposing to a meeting of liturgists in London that the Catholic Church return to the practice of priest and people praying in the same direction during the Liturgy of the Eucharist: a change in liturgical «orientation» the cardinal described as the entire congregation looking together toward the Lord who is to come.

Our hope is that Four Evangelists Orthodox Church will be a house of prayer for all people to meet, know, and worship our Savior Jesus Christ as he taught us, following the liturgical and spiritual practices as handed down through the Orthodox tradition.