Sentences with phrase «most established churches»

The practical ecclesial implications of this critical insight are many, and it seems to me that they have only been superficially recognized by 20th century ecumenism, which has concentrated too exclusively on inter-denominational dialogue and the mutual recognition of the most established churches.

Such a move would be impossible for most established churches, but they could begin to move in that direction by portioning off an ever - increasing percentage of their annual budget for serving the community in this way.

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This is all the more satisfying a ratification because Connelly is so conscientious in establishing his own personal antagonism toward the Catholic Church (at one point asserting without even a footnote that natural family planning «still fails most couples who try it»).

Throughout most of church history, the term «mission» meant what believers were «sent out» to do — to propagate Christianity by making converts and establishing churches.

If we remember most of Jesus» criticism was for the established church.

For Christian humanism — faithful in this to the most firmly established theology of the Incarnation — there is no real independence or discordance but a logical subordination between the genesis of humanity in the world and the genesis of Christ, through his Church, in humanity.

Yet the Church went on, the most nearly stable and inclusive institution in an age when war was chronic and only a few of the strongest princes could establish, and then only temporarily and over a limited area, some semblance of order.

As Kinnaman puts it, «which model [does] the Church most resemble — the established monolith or grassroots network — and what might that mean for its relevance in the lives of a collaborative, can - do generation that feels alienated from hierarchical institutions?»

They assume not only a settled ecclesiastical system in the Church, but also an established body of orthodox beliefs against which to judge heresy and, what is most significant, a collection of Christian Scriptures.

United Methodist historian Franklin H. Littell reminds us that the great heresies of the early church came from the churches that were the most established, most complacent and most static, not from the church's growing edges where believers were busy evangelizing, organizing and building new disciple communities.

Sending an emissary to read a letter aloud was one of the most effective ways of establishing parousia in the early churches.

First, it is interesting that in the fourth century, the road to Constantinople in 381 is not paved by blunt appeals to church authority but by extensive wrestling over biblical texts and fine - tooling of extra-biblical language (most notably the term «hypostasis») in an attempt to establish which exegetical claims made sense of Scripture as a whole and which fell short.

And the simple fact is that in an era when nearly everyone assumed that communism had come to stay, it was not simply a few isolated Polish Catholic priests like Wielgus whobelieved that there had to be some degree of cooperation with the institutional manifestations of communism; it was the Church at the very highest level of all, in Rome itself: for the assumption that communism was a permanent reality and therefore had to be dealt with was the very foundation of Paul VI's Ostpolitik, the most famous and the most ignoble manifestation of which was Pope Paul's betrayal (there is no other word) of the Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty, who was stripped of all his offices and replaced by a Hungarian Primate whose remit (faithfully accomplished) was to establish cordial relations with the communist regime of the deeply unsavoury Janos Kadar.

Most of them were established by churches for purposes of a humanistic education.

The university traces its origins to the Middle Ages, when most universities were established by the church to perform a role in society defined and desired by the church.

In spite of these findings, most religious broadcasters make little effort to establish personal contact between respondents to their programs and a local church, though they frequently claim to be supportive of the idea.

However, for people who are dissatisfied with their local church, who have little established connection with a local church, or whose religious consciousness may be awakened by a viewed religious program, the research indicates that paid - time religious programs, by presenting themselves as competent alternatives to the local church, offering a range of services similar to the local church, and not referring respondents or enquirers to a local church, may be acting as a barrier to people's developing their faith most fully within this interpersonal context.

This development is most strikingly illustrated in the history of the Church of England in the colonies, which in the South was established from the beginning by the Charters, rather consistently supported by successive laws, and generally nurtured by the civil rulers.

But whatever the causes of it or the process by which it came about, or however different these may have been in different parts of the church, monepiscopacy was firmly established in most churches before the end of the second century and by the end of the third century prevailed everywhere.

The most outstanding book of this kind was a work of Martin Bucer, entitled Pastorale, i.e., On the true Care of Souls and the right Pastoral Ministry and how the same is to be established and performed in the Church of Christ.

Somewhere along the line I had established permanent residence in Friend Zone with most of the women that I had met, went to church with, worked with, or interacted with on a regular basis.

It is one of the most well - established church dating sites out there.

The most established bars can be found near the church in Plaza Mayor where you can grab refreshing cocktails as you listen to jazz, soul and cuban music to really get into the Spanish spirit.

Only a federally established church was forbidden by the First Amendment (although most states disestablished their state religions after the Constitution was adopted).

Most Melanesian people belong to a Christian church, the denomination depending upon the established church of the colonial power.