Sentences with phrase «new kind of church»

That in turn leads me to the question of how could a new kind of church today look like?

A new kind of church is struggling to be bom.

Not exact matches

Those who believe that there is some kind of conspiracy afoot to pull out and form a new church overlook these differences among conservatives, and underestimate the difficulty of bringing them all together.

And so out of poverty, out of struggle, out of the worst kind of oppression, a new form of the ancient church is being born.

As the industrial revolution created a new kind of exploitation of the poor by the rich, many in the churches protested and attempted to mitigate the suffering.

The ABC was kind enough to send transcripts of the programs it did on these giants of modern Catholicism, so I was able to read what others had to say about the Church's two newest saints.

I have watched men who have pastored for many years suddenly become displaced... they sometimes try to start their own church — with mixed results — or get on board some kind of ministry or launch a new ministry.

It is a new kind of Erastianism: the church being slowly but surely co-opted as a means of social control, subordinated to the whims of the political lobbyists as they press their commitments to creating a society of Psychological Men, Women, and all points in between through the law courts.

Protestantism accepted the idea that uniformity of belief is a necessary factor in a church, so that as new formulations of belief have arisen new churches have been founded to represent them, until in the United States we have over two hundred different kinds of Protestant Christians.

Hittinger correctly points out that this new Thomism finds its point of reference in the human experience: «The Church has held Thomas as the master because humans themselves thirst for the kind of wisdom Thomas pursued and taught.

See this is the kind of stuff that messes things up, I don't know where you go to church but Christians believe in the old and the new testament.

I may never believe in any kind of God, but I truly respect the new Pope for trying to return the Church to the teachings of its God, the original, pure words of Jesus Christ, and not the «amended» interpretation of the US religious right.

Our graduate students and newest faculty increasingly have fields and specialties — services to sell — but not vocations to make a particular kind of difference in the church or the world.

this was my experience of church in the new town I moved into; since I wasn't exactly the kind of «Christian'that they automatically expected me to be, I was on the receiving end of your whole list.

The Church's vocation is to employ its historical teachings «to shape new kinds of personal and corporate existence,» as Hamilton put it.

Brian McLaren's two most important books — A New Kind of Christian and the recent A Generous Orthodoxy — both open by raising the specter of an evangelical pastor leaving the ministry or the church altogether.

Everything in the life and liturgy of the Church has its meaning in this new kind of community.

In this kind of society, small, lively groups in a church offer sorely needed opportunities for persons to drink deeply from the fresh springs of relationship, discovering the reality of the New Testament experience of being «members one of another.»

Many young families were in retreat from certain kinds of church experience and the refreshing secularism of the new approach was welcome.

We have said that it is in a new kind of relationship among people to which we are to look for the distinctive mark of the Spirit's presence in the Church.

The Holy Spirit, then, is present in and to the church as the Spirit of God's Holy Love, bringing his people into a new kind of relationship to one another and to him.

He carries that kind of discussion on into the contemporary revisions of the Church of England and the new Breviary now in use in the Catholic Church.

The alleged subordination of the gospel to Karl Marx is illustrated, for example, by charging that «false» liberation theology concentrates too much on a few selected biblical texts that are always given a political meaning, leading to an overemphasis on «material» poverty and neglecting other kinds of poverty; that this leads to a «temporal messianism» that confuses the Kingdom of God with a purely «earthly» new society, so that the gospel is collapsed into nothing but political endeavor; that the emphasis on social sin and structural evil leads to an ignoring or forgetting of the reality of personal sin; that everything is reduced to praxis (the interplay of action and reflection) as the only criterion of faith, so that the notion of truth is compromised; and that the emphasis on communidades de base sets a so - called «people's church» against the hierarchy.

The range of issues that the churches face in China, and the theological methodologies that they are devising to handle them suggest that in the near future a new kind of theology may come from this part of the world.

That kind of power is something the Church still has in some cultures today, but there's nothing in the New Testament that supports this kind of power for the Church at all.

The arguments against evolution have been so explicitly and thoroughly expounded in the Catholic theology of the last eighty years, that it is not to be expected that later on they will become even more evident, in relation to the Church's awareness of what she believes, than they are now, and so become capable of providing new and certain grounds for rejecting the theory of evolution of a kind that have been declared to be not yet at present available.

The church has been abandoning its strategic locations within city cores and traditional neighborhoods and trying to create a new kind of society in the form of suburban megachurches.

An example... a young woman in her 20's... a new believer... coming to terms with her life, which had been one of abuse of every kind imaginable... she'd had a breakdown at 20 and was often suicidal... was standing outside church after the service... crying and smoking a cigarette.

This was just the kind of religious life portrayed in the New Testament, not only as a model and pattern, but as a challenge and inspiration The New Testament was thus the abiding source of power which enabled man to realize the true life of religion, and Christ was the eternal symbol for the cultus of the Christian Church.

«Maybe we are facing a new and different kind of epoch in the church's history where Christianity will be characterized more by the mustard seed, where it will exist in small, seemingly insignificant groups that nonetheless live an intensive struggle against evil and bring the good into the world - that let God in,» he told Peter Seewald in an interview for the book, «Salt of the Earth: Christianity and the Catholic Church at the End of the Millenium.&church's history where Christianity will be characterized more by the mustard seed, where it will exist in small, seemingly insignificant groups that nonetheless live an intensive struggle against evil and bring the good into the world - that let God in,» he told Peter Seewald in an interview for the book, «Salt of the Earth: Christianity and the Catholic Church at the End of the Millenium.&Church at the End of the Millenium.»

Today, the new Lutheran church needs a different kind of «tradition.»

For this reason, teaching about television becomes a high priority for the church — teaching pastors how to function in an informational rather than an industrial society, teaching denominational leaders how to deal with the new kinds of ethical situations that have resulted from the dominance of this new institution, with its new kind of power, and, above all, teaching parishioners how to cope with the enormous wave of exciting.

The mainline churches are facing a new kind of Christ - and - culture problem.

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In the second place, the churches do not have the kind of influence that would enable them to build a new society, even if they wanted to.

This new attitude produced the kind of church most of us have grown up in.

Martin was discussing his new book, Building a Bridge, which is a kind of etiquette manual for the modern Church.

While unitary State sovereignty represented a limitation on our natural liberty in the abstract, in fact it promised a new kind of liberty» liberty from the myriad forms of constitutive identification and membership in non-state institutions, especially the Church.

I learned quickly at the Divinity School that full respect was reserved chiefly for the mainline Protestant churches of the old New England kind, including Congregationalists, Anglicans, Unitarians, and Presbyterians, with considerable respect also for the mainstream Lutherans (less so for the Missouri Synod) and some Methodists, but very little for the Baptists and those others from «the left wing of the Reformation.»

George Weigel says we must ponder the Cross in order to reform the Church: We would have arranged things differently; we would have chosen another kind of Messiah — that theme runs like a bright thread throughout Lent, in the readings from the Old and New Testaments that the Church....

In singing under Shaw for more than 16 years — in New York, Cleveland, Puerto Rico and Princeton — I came to understand how the standards he sets for church musicians and the spiritual values he brings to the concert podium produce the kind of music that so moved that young woman in Tennessee.

However halting, despite the hiccoughs and errors, it's hard not to be strangely warmed that many churches aspire to replicate the work of the early church, stunningly summarized by Rodney Stark in one of my favorite quotations: «Christianity revitalized life in Greco - Roman cities by providing new norms and new kinds of social relationships able to cope with many urgent urban problems.

Another example of this is the way that some teach that women can not take any kind of leadership in the church on the basis of the Greek word authentein in 1 Timothy 2:12, a word which is found nowhere else in the New Testament and is very rare in Greek as a whole, and which never seems to mean simply «have authority» as some people insist it means.

Churches must help other groups in society which are pressing for these new kinds of «small media.»

I attempted to sketch the difficulties of relating the Resurrection narratives of the New Testament to the kind of world in which we live, and to show that, in spite of these, the Resurrection faith of the church can still have meaning for men who have left behind the world view of the first century.

The kind of publicity a new church uses to get started will have an impact on the way the congregation develops.

Pope Benedict: «Maybe we are facing a new and different kind of epoch in the church's history where Christianity will be characterized more by the mustard seed, where it will exist in small, seemingly insignificant groups.»

What the Pope and leaders of the Church like Cardinal Ratzinger or Cardinal Lustiger of Paris have in mind when they speak of a new evangelization are realities of this kind: a common healing of memories, reconciliation, and mutual help among European peoples» and certainly not some dark conspiracy aimed at wielding political power or influence.

Starting as it does from the modern world view, and challenging the Biblical mythology and the traditional proclamation of the Church, this new kind of criticism is performing for faith the supreme service of recalling it to a radical consideration of its own nature.

Justinian was a great builder: his most notable architectural achievement was St. Sophia, the cathedral church of Constantinople and the most noble example of a new kind of Christian art.