Sentences with phrase «much authority in the church»

Not exact matches

The LDS church did not grant the priesthood to blacks in the early days of the church, mainly because they were already under so much persecution, having to flee from state to state and finally into Utah territory that the additional trouble granting this authority to blacks would have caused might have sunk the early church.

I may not have much authority in the eyes of the world or even the Church, particularly the dwellers of The Table.

Furthermore, how much of the recent scandal would the Church have avoided had bishops and priests in positions of authority in the 70's and 80's been better educated about psychology?

If the Church is cautious in questions of doctrine and discipline, perhaps even more so than in the past, if she waits for more information, carrying on a dialogue, perhaps even leaves much to the conscience of the individual, all this does not mean that the authorities have grown cowardly, they have not, for this reason, given up their responsibility and their power.

If the bible and the church has too much authority in your life, then the god of this equation is false.

Much of the damage that has been done to Catholicism in recent decades — by the abuse scandals, by the ongoing horror stories of mid-twentieth century Catholic life in Ireland, by forms of intellectual dissent that empty Catholicism of the patrimony of truth bequeathed to it by the Lord, by the counter-witness of Catholics in public life who fail to stand firm for the dignity of the human person at all stages of life and in all conditions of life — is a matter of self - imposed wounds, which Church authorities have an obligation to address.

Perhaps the kinds of studies that have been made of the art of administration, of the relations of policy and administration, of organization and management in other: spheres will be carried forward into the sphere of the Church and may show how much the pastoral director of our time, as pastoral preacher, teacher, counselor and leader of worship has also become the democratic pastoral administrator, that is to say, a man charged with the responsibility and given the authority to hold in balance, to invigorate and to maintain communication among a host of activities and their responsible leaders, all directed toward a common end.

As we turn in the next chapter to consider the evangelical church's role in society, we will see that matters of a correct theological understanding of social ethics - one resting in Biblical authority - do not hinge so much on the issue of Biblical hermeneutics as they do on the matter of conflicting loyalties to ecclesiological traditions.

The point is that the much - maligned structures of authority in the Church are as necessary to transmitting our faith as herdsmen are necessary to providing lamb chops.

Instead of skirting the issue, much of the heat the catholic church is taken would probably be alleviated by simply just requiring those in power to report abuse to local authorities and levying swift and severe punishment on those who condone and cover up abuses.

To these worship authorities, worship is not just the church's main event, it is the only event — or as the LCA's worship coordinating committee chairperson stated in his 1978 report «Projections and Perceptions,» «a congregation is never the church as much as when it worships.»

And because they gain so much visibility — take on such an aura of authority and religious «truth» — they lead people outside the church to conclude that Christianity really is irrelevant to the world and its problems, confirming them in their resolve to shun organized religion and go their way as humanitarians, free - thinkers or iconoclasts.

The early church believed Jesus and followed his example, so much so that even the Roman authorities noted (often with derision) in their letters and journals that the church was made up primarily of women, slaves, and poor, uneducated laborers.

From Alanus Anglicus to Pope Nicholas V, a false understanding of the papacy and of papal authority insinuated itself into the Church, finding expression, for example, in the notorious «bulls of donation» which are the target of much opprobrium in indigenous protest movements.

(iii) Ironically the US and German cases evinced against the Pope concerning abuses back in the 70s and 80s (as with the much more recent Ealing headmaster case used very prominently against Archbishop Nichols) show the Church being decades ahead of the game as they had all involved full and appropriate cooperation with civil authorities.

Thus, the Reformation has not so much undermined the possibility of a Christian consensus organized around the proper authority of the Catholic Church as it has ushered in a pallid and existentially unsatisfying secularism.