Sentences with phrase «modern church cultures»

If the only reason you can't believe in God is based in the fact that you're all offended that the universe isn't all puppies and rainbows, then you didn't understand the contents of the Bible or its intended lessons and you just instead subscribe to New Age feel - good modern church cultures.

How does one simultaneously not believe in Gof and subscribe to New Age, feel - good modern church cultures?

One of the big downsides of the way the modern church culture has developed is the way worship has become associated with Sundays only.

Not exact matches

I don't like it when atheists want to secularize our culture and shut out any public mention of religion... But I also don't like it when modern evangelical fundamentalists are so ignorant of the Christian Church's teachings and traditions of two thousand years.

As conduits for «postmodern spirituality,» argues Wells, these churches «appear to be succeeding, not because they are offering an alternative to our modern culture, rather because they are speaking with its voice, mimicking its moves.»

The liberal churches need their own particular language of faith to communicate with the cultured despisers of the modern world, in a manner that lays claim upon the self and the community.»

The contemporary «learning society,» overwhelmed with information, knowledge and entertainment, requires discerning and constructive responses of an even greater order than those of the early church in the sophisticated rhetorical culture of the Roman Empire, or the early modern Western church faced with printing and transformations in scholarship, geographical horizons, sciences, nations and industries.

To what extent is this a church - universal struggle to handle certain Scripture texts faithfully, and to what extent is it just a theological repackaging of modern American culture wars?

The author contrasts an ancient abbey with its traditions, history and rootedness, to the modern American megachurch without tradition, culture or weighted worship, to an ecological sound, modern, high - tech, all thought out community but where the state church seems of little consequence, yet in this latter place the gospel seemed to make more sense.

I am not very unlike you, very cynical of the modern culture of the «church», but I have found, for me, that to fixate on the problems of the church does not seem to build the Lingdom of God.

Homosexuality is a very sensitive subject within the culture of the modern church.

Therefore it can become one potent source of inter-communal community in society outside the church also, a sort of secular koinonia and of the development of the ideology of a genuine secular human community at local, national and world levels in the modern pluralist context of many religions and cultures.

Any person who is referred to by such sobriquets as «the Catholic Barth,» «the most cultured man in Europe,» «a modern church father» and «Pope John Paul II's favorite theologian» is certainly someone to be reckoned with on many theological fronts.

It is not clear how Volf's perspectives about ordination address this «culture of professionalism» in modern churches that draws a sharp demarcation between clergy and laity and pays no mind to the doctrine of the Trinity.

Dr Peter Hodgson, formerly head of the Nuclear Physics theoretical division at the University of Oxford, has long been involved in the science — faith debate and has contributed widely to the Catholic Church's appreciation of modern physics, especially as a consultant to the Pontifical Council of Culture.

James Hitchcock of St. Louis University writes, «The Pope has... committed the Church to a relationship with culture which is both modern and traditional in the best sense of each term.»

It bestowed upon the church also the gift of highly educated and cultured ministers who, profoundly aware of the needs of modern life, became the proponents of the advancement of modern civilization and the leaders of many progressive movements in education and social reform.

Increasingly, we have noticed an appeasement of modern culture under the broad cloak of pastoral sensitivity, including cases of some high - profile clergy who deliberately blur the Church's teaching regarding homosexuality and transgenderism in the name of «building bridges.»

When that culture started changing in the early 20th century, the small «c» church didn't change with it but kept redoubling its efforts in the 19th century mode (albeit w / some modern technological updates).

The Second Vatican Council, through its Pastoral Constitution, called for an intellectual development that synthesises science, personalism and other aspects of modern culture with Church teaching, in a spirit of respectful but evangelical openness towards those outside the Church.

The question modern readers have to answer is whether the Greco - Roman household codes reflected upon in Ephesians, Colossians, and 1 Peter are in and of themselves holy and divinely instituted, or if their appearance in Scripture represents the early church's attempt to blend Christianity and culture in such a way that it would preserve the dignity of adherents while honoring prevailing social and legal norms of the day.

Christianity has been in power for many centuries in one form or another, whether it was the Roman Catholic Church that sought political dominance in Europe, the Christianized culture of the medieval period, the Inquisition that persecuted heretics, or the modern nation state of Europe that went to spread Christianized culture to its colonies.

Secondly, modern missionary movement which became dominant in the 18th and 19th centuries have been emphasizing proclamation of the gospel to people of other religions and cultures making clear that they were called to decide for or against Christ and that their decision for Christ involved joining the fellowship of Christians in one of the denominational churches as representing the Church, the Body of Christ.

If these early followers had been content to withdraw from and forget their relationship to the rest of society, Newbigin says, they would have posed no threat to the Emperor and his power:» [the first century church] would have enjoyed the protection of the law — the same protection which churches enjoy in our modern culture, available for exactly the same reason — namely, that they pose no threat to the ideology which controls public life.»

This methodology regards all theological «truths» as molded by circumstance and culture; it takes more seriously the pluralism of the modern world and the importance of democratic consensus in church government.

I think churches often use modern means to show how they're engaging the culture for Christ, but not accommodating to it.

Another aspect of modern culture which the church has not come to terms with is sexual behavior.

The dynamics of modern «secular culture» have their roots in a concept of humanism derived from the Christian gospel but that because of the failure of the churches to respond positively to the values that emerged in Christian culture as implication of Christian humanism, they were sought to be realized in human history under the dynamic of «secularist ideologies of humanism» in opposition to the Christian faith.

The Vatican II document on the «Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World» has been of crucial significance in the ecumenical approach of a positive character to the redefinition of the forces and values of secular culture within the context of Christian faith and ethics, themselves renewed in the modern coModern World» has been of crucial significance in the ecumenical approach of a positive character to the redefinition of the forces and values of secular culture within the context of Christian faith and ethics, themselves renewed in the modern comodern context.

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