Sentences with phrase «more on church history»

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Now churches have two paths in front of them, evolve to a more open less hateful organization that supports this mindset or continue down their path and fade into the history they so dearly are clinging on to.

Considering the history of conflicts between Church and State, it would seem more prudent for Christians, Jews, and others of good will to take the position that the death penalty is justified as long as it is carried out by a lawful sovereign, not inflicted in a cruel and unusual manner, and imposed only on those convicted of heinous crimes by due process of law.

Aren't most «Histories of the Primitive Church» a kind of paper - chase, in which a lack of genuine historical controls leads to ever more elaborate and ever less plausible «reconstructions» based less on facts than on the demands of developmental models?

Despite my earnest efforts to make sessions on the sacraments, church history, the Bible, ethics and beliefs interesting, the last thing on earth these youth wanted was to be put through two more hours of school every Thursday during Lent.

While it would be easy to blame these events on the history of communism in Russia, the relationship between church and the state has a longer and more influential history in Russia.

The psychic energy of contemporary pastors, theologians and church leaders has more often centered on the kerygmatic Word as it encounters «the problem of history,» on struggles against the idolatries of fascism and Stalinism abroad and racism, classism and sexism at home, or on the development of the professional skills of ministry.

Meanwhile, Hutchinson continued to write books, turning out a dozen or more volumes on such themes as the history of Methodism, world revolution and religion, the ordeal of Western religion, the leaders who made the churches and the modernization of China.

and the history of your corrupt and evil church shows that those who believe in god are no more moral than anyone else for having» god» on their side.

On the other hand, evangelicals who promote a warped view of American history in an effort to undo the court rulings on church - state affairs ignore a fundamental point made by Roger Williams more than 300 years ago: «No civil state or country can be truly called Christian, although the Christians be in it.&raquOn the other hand, evangelicals who promote a warped view of American history in an effort to undo the court rulings on church - state affairs ignore a fundamental point made by Roger Williams more than 300 years ago: «No civil state or country can be truly called Christian, although the Christians be in it.&raquon church - state affairs ignore a fundamental point made by Roger Williams more than 300 years ago: «No civil state or country can be truly called Christian, although the Christians be in it.»

Following the lead of Archbishop Lefebvre, the clergy of the Priestly Society of St. Pius X (SSPX)-- the ordained members of the Lefebvrist movement — have long claimed that what the Council taught on religious freedom is false because it contradicted settled Catholic teaching — a claim that has more to do with the agitations of post-1789 French politics than with a serious account of the history of Catholic church - state doctrine.

I've been doing a lot of reading on church history recently (for that book I'm writing... Close Your Church for Good), and it constantly amazes me how much of what we do «in church» is a result of tradition (so much for Sola Scriptura) which developed 1000 - 1500 years ago as a result of a politician or priest who wanted more power or more church history recently (for that book I'm writing... Close Your Church for Good), and it constantly amazes me how much of what we do «in church» is a result of tradition (so much for Sola Scriptura) which developed 1000 - 1500 years ago as a result of a politician or priest who wanted more power or more Church for Good), and it constantly amazes me how much of what we do «in church» is a result of tradition (so much for Sola Scriptura) which developed 1000 - 1500 years ago as a result of a politician or priest who wanted more power or more church» is a result of tradition (so much for Sola Scriptura) which developed 1000 - 1500 years ago as a result of a politician or priest who wanted more power or more money.

This is the more strange because the more deeply a concern is loaded with history, the past, things accomplished long ago, the more a church understands herself as a «pilgrim people of God» — that is, called, continuous, on the way, starting with a constitutive deed and living out her life in a hope which is both a given and an awaited consummation — the more clearly the church understands that, the more embarrassing her problem with a flat and impoverished language.

Protestants use other terminology to recommend such accommodations to the spirit of the times — they speak of making Christianity «more relevant,» or of getting the Church «on the right side of history.»

In the history of the Christian Church prophets have appeared from time to time, sometimes of course from the ordained ministry but more frequently without the benefit of such authorization to act on behalf of the community.

What a short memory you have MATT, the Christian church has more blood on its hands than all the other religions in recorded history.

If more Christians studied the history of the Bible and the history of the early Church, not just the Bible itself, I think they would have much greater perspective on their religion, what has been taught to them and some of the why's (who decided what was «right» and what was «wrong» in early teachings) and how they have come to believe what they do.

These words are less clearly applicable to the «fastest growing Baptist church in the history of America,» and one of the «most effective churches on the North American continent,» to cite the description in the foreword to The Purpose - Driven Church (Warren himself adopts a much more modest church in the history of America,» and one of the «most effective churches on the North American continent,» to cite the description in the foreword to The Purpose - Driven Church (Warren himself adopts a much more modest Church (Warren himself adopts a much more modest tone).

He more explicitly takes up the arguments of liberals within the mainline church who suggest that conservative histrionics over the inclusion of homosexuals are no different from the resistance to racial or gender inclusiveness or to revision to the Book of Common Prayer (indeed, conservatives on the issue of homosexuality are in some regrettable company in recent history).

So it seems the Catholic Church (and Christianity more broadly — many other churches have issued even stronger endorsements of internationalism) is on the side of history, baptizing the post-national future.

7 On the tendency of the Arianizing bishops to be more responsive to the urgency of bringing policy into line with politics and the correspondingly greater constitutional conservatism of the Nicene bishops, I have written in «Christology and Church - State Relations in the Fourth Century,» Church History XX (1951), Nos. 3 and 4.

Due to its rich history, there are more cultural assets on the island: the parish church of St. Mary with preserved parts from 1480, two fortresses from the 6th century, Gradina and Gusterne, five - storey bunja Stari stan, and a submarine archaeological site where many amphoras were found.