Sentences with phrase «liturgical traditions of»

Our parish is grounded in the liturgical traditions of Russian Orthodoxy.

During the past two decades an unlikely wave of liturgical enthusiasm has swept over American evangelicalism, but it is too early to tell whether or not evangelicalism, lacking any liturgical tradition of its own, has the resources to sustain a liturgical movement.

I recall the reaction of a priest friend to a text setting out the conservative version of Anglicanism, one which espouses fidelity to the monarchy, to the liturgical tradition of the Book of Common Prayer, and to the rural pastoral tradition, of such great comfort to the people.

It is Orthodox in the sense of believing that the liturgical tradition of the Eastern Church belongs to all Christianity.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Evangelical Catholicism seeks to incorporate within the Novus Ordo the richness of the Church's ancient liturgical traditions.

Both the liturgical and theological traditions of the Church present to us certain things that must be said about God as revealed in Christ Jesus.

If that negation of human works (and by implication of all human structure and conduct) is what Christianity is, then morality, tradition, authority, the Church, sanctification, discipleship, liturgical order, and even dogma are secondary at best.

I wandered through other church traditions, traditional, contemporary, liturgical, meditative, mystic, seeker - sensitive, emerging, ancient - future, denominational, mega-church, old church, new church, basement church, no church for a while there: you name it, I found my way there and I found the people of God in each place, I did.

Since the book demonstrates so powerfully the case for the return to the pre-Conciliar liturgy, Fr Joseph Fessio, S.J., Editor - in - Chief, Ignatius Press has to temper his own enthusiastic Forward by putting the position of «those who advocate a rereading and restructuring of the liturgical renewal intended by the Second Vatican Council, but in light of the Church's two - thousand - year tradition.»

My present concern is the liturgical center: the Reformed churches, Presbyterians, United Methodists, United Church of Canada and portions of the free - church tradition (United Church of Christ and Christian Church [Disciples of Christ]-RRB-.

But it is quite possible to teach liturgical theology today, making use of sources from every tradition — Orthodox to Quaker.

The Christian tradition of singing the sacred Liturgy, a hallmark of Christian worship from antiquity, has largely been replaced by saying the Liturgical prayers and singing something else.

As we attempt to reconnect with our own history, which is after all a sacred history as far as the Divine Liturgy is concerned, the value of the Church's liturgical traditions are once again being emphasised not just as expressions of sacredness and beauty in the public work of God, but as the embodiment and carriers of the Church's faith.

The tug of an ancient, unchanged liturgical tradition becomes especially pronounced in this climate,» says Coakley, a professor at Harvard Divinity School.

No theologian working inside the traditions of western Christianity was more sensitive to the rhythms of the Church's liturgical year than was John Henry Newman.

We may begin, for example, with a certain tradition within the Church of England, in which the minister or priest performed his liturgical, homiletical, and pastoral duties, and perhaps even did spots of reading about them, but in which his serious continuing intellectual work along some particular line might have little or nothing to do with theology.

It is rash to reject the central propositions of past tradition, but it is also rash to utter many of them today, except perhaps in the context of liturgical prayer.

In bestowing on this church a design award, critics noted that the «blending of Native American and Catholic tradition enhances and enriches the liturgical environment.

He engaged the congregation in discussions about the Reformed tradition of worship and architecture and the liturgical goals for the new space.

is not found in the best manuscripts of Matthew and Luke, and is either an independent later piece of oral tradition, or a liturgical conclusion which the church added when the prayer came to be used in worship.

The rupture in the Catholic liturgical tradition engineered by Thomas Cranmer resulted in «a maddening ambiguity at the heart of Anglican Eucharistic theology.»

Traumatic ruptures in the liturgical tradition, as distinct from organic development, have not served the spiritual interests and needs of the People of God.

And we really have had enough of liturgical innovations that treat the received tradition as being normative only hucusque.

There are many books on the development of liturgy in which the discussion is principally about what is happening within one liturgical tradition while taking into account influences from other traditions.

Thus, six services were in the Reformed tradition — three informal, three traditional — four services were charismatic, and, as a sop to the creedal, confessional, liturgical, sacramental types — I was one of those — they offered «the 9:00 P.M. hour.»

Naturally this will vary with the kind of liturgical tradition.

For those in a lectionary - based tradition, the collection of essays in Social Themes of the Christian Year demonstrates a way of thinking theologically about the liturgical seasons in order to discern their prophetic dimensions.

In Part 3 of the book, she describes this shift in terms of a «gathering center» in which Christians from the four corners (or quadrants) of Western Christendom — conservatives, renewalists, liturgicals, and social justice Christians — are moving toward the center, grabbing bits and pieces from each tradition and putting them together to make something entirely new.

«to maintain the liturgical, spiritual and pastoral traditions of the Anglican Communion within the Catholic Church, as a precious gift nourishing the faith of the members of the Ordinariate and as a treasure to be shared» (Anglicanorum Coetibus)

Art. 5.1 In parishes, where there is a stable group of faithful who adhere to the earlier liturgical tradition, the pastor should willingly accept their requests to celebrate the Mass according to the rite of the Roman Missal published in 1962.

And we who have grown up within the liturgical tradition dare not relax as if we, by our deeds of preservation, were automatically obedient.

In order to make concrete that preaching situation let us assume further that I am a preacher in a church which owns and honors the liturgical tradition, and as a major obedience to that tradition does not deliver over to me — for exploitation according to my ambulatory penchants or enthusiasms — a merely religious occasion, but has from of old designated this Sunday as the second Sunday in Advent.

The two prevailing types of cultus in Christian churches are liturgical and sermon - centered, corresponding roughly to the Catholic and Protestant traditions though with no clear demarcation between them.

And it should be liturgical preaching in line with the creedal traditions of the church.

It was a Tradition embroiled in the life, loves and sins of all people everywhere and was strongly organisational, authoritative and liturgical (meaning that it catered in its acts and life of prayer for the mass of the people to whom it addressed itself).

I referred to «theologies of scripture» to include the diverse discussions about the nature, authority, interpretation, and uses (liturgical, political, corporate, personal, etc.) of scripture, as well as the relationship between scripture and tradition.

Favorably quoting a theologian who refers to the Pope as a «liturgical pluralist,» Rocca goes on to say that Benedict is «leading his church forward in the spirit of its oldest traditions.»

The charge is and sentencing are over the top — the action itself shows a profound lack of empathy for the theology of liturgical, particularly the Eastern tradition where the assembly mystically becomes the throne room if God.

This nontextual character of Dalit and Adivasi traditions influences the direction of contextual liturgical expressions: instead of reaching back to the pristine and original world of the past (mostly inscribed and frozen in sacred texts), they may be intertwined with an orientation towards the future.

Lutheran congregations provide a good Petri dish for studying the megachurch impact, because Lutherans have a distinct theological tradition which they express in a particular liturgical style of worship.

In the Byzantine liturgical tradition, the third Sunday of Lent is devoted to the Adoration of the Holy Cross.

Janet Baxindale, who lectures around the country on the spiritual potential of Catholic traditions like the Liturgy of the Hours, comments, «Among the adults I - teach, more often than not, a simple presentation of the theology of the liturgy and the role of all the baptized in the liturgical prayer of the church is greeted with «I never knew that.»»

The entire unit, Exodus 1 - 15, is the product of a multiform literary tradition, but a relatively uniform cultic - liturgical tradition — a fact which again leaves quite beyond recovery the external - objective structure of the event.

And as I scratched harder at the surface of my assumptions about what the liturgical life meant, I begin to wonder how I could live a liturgical life at home with my kids, celebrating all the lovely, ancient, traditions I was discovering.

I do not like this pope... to modern the church lost a lots of people after Vatican ii... he's the leader of the church but I don't think he understands how the church worked in the last 2000 years... that's why we need a European pope again they understand how dress when they read mess he's to plain... people want to see a pope in the old liturgical clothing the old Latin mass was great with the great pomp... the church can modernize but just don't give up the old I think traditions I think pope benedict understood that... he came from Bavaria where they still celebrating mass in the old baroque style he's the pope not just a simple priest... the queen of England understands that people want to see pomp pretty soon he will wear street cloth..

Then once the Sabbath, with its human yearning and its sense of communion with the ultimate, was defined, once it became the liturgical center of life, then the tradition of how it was to be observed developed.

1 - 15) is the product, on the one hand, of a considerable literary development and, on the other hand, of a relatively uniform liturgical tradition.