Sentences with phrase «not ecclesial»

Vatican II speaks of Christian unity, not ecclesial unity, as the goal of ecumenism, and for good reason.

Not exact matches

I thought according to what I have seen you say many times, the other «ecclesial communities» aren't true and do not follow god.

You claim it isn't the One that Jesus founded yet you fail to tell us which one of the 38000 ecclesial communities is the one.]

Patriarch Bartholomew's first move could be to normalize the canonical standing of the ecclesial bodies that are presently not in communion with other Orthodox Churches.

As for the latter, those worried about another Catholic slide into incoherence should have faith in the ecclesial experience of the last three decades, which has taught enduring lessons about how Catholicism can not merely survive, but flourish, amidst the cultural acids of post-modernity — if it holds fast to a dynamic orthodoxy lived with compassion and solidarity.

Father Reese writes on Newsweek «s On Faith blog, «The Catholic hierarchy does not support ecclesial or state - sponsored homosexual marriage and still argues that sex outside of marriage, including homosexual activity, is sinful.»

All who truly believe in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord are brothers and sisters in the Lord even though they are not in full ecclesial fellowship.

So perhaps one way to move beyond a debilitating polarization in the ecclesial realm (I dare not proffer any suggestions regarding the political realm) is for all my fellow dogmatists to aspire to become mystagogues.

Even if younger Catholics are far from unanimous in their support of Weigel's positions, they nonetheless are not consumed by the theological and ecclesial power - struggles that have afflicted the American church for the past 40 years.

Ok, Iceman, which of the 30 - 40,000 ecclesial communities that call themselves Christian is Jesus» Church if you think it is not the Catholic Church?

not anyone from the Catholic Church or ecclesial communities can claim to be the Bride of Christ.

It might be objected here that one can not leap from sociological reality to ecclesial mission: the church is not called simply to follow sociologists» recipes for institutional growth.

While not budging on the truth of the encyclical, he decided to tolerate dissent for the sake of ecclesial unity.

The statement, published in the New York Times and several other newspapers, was intended as «a thoughtful Jewish response» to the «dramatic and unprecedented shift» that has occurred in Jewish - Christian relations, not only through reformulation of Christian teachings but through explicit ecclesial statements of remorse on the part of both Catholics and Protestants.

More to the point, the context speaks about confession of faith and love of one another — are these regulative statements or just as conveniently non-binding on you, someone who clearly does not take much joy in the fact that the bible * instituted * ecclesial offices?

As I wrote in a book on this entire problem, published in 1997 and entitled The Roman Option, «I do not believe that the ecclesial entity that Forward in Faith has created is intended, even by them, as a permanent structure: it is a provisional solution, a desert encampment.»

The Catholic faith is not just a faith of words, not just a message, not just a doctrine nor simply a moral code; it is fullness of life in Christ Jesus, and therefore it is also ecclesial, liturgical, devotional, Eucharistic.

I am surprised that we have not given greater room for the new ecclesial movements in this country.

Though Witte does not state explicitly that his methodology is shaped by the Protestant principle, he nonetheless proceeds on the assumption that historical Christianity passed over, at least in the West, into the ecclesial communions that developed out of the Reformation.

Now it takes little reflection to see that most major problems of ecclesial and political controversy have always been and will continue to be divergent and not convergent ones; accordingly, there is an especially vexing irony in the fact that those who want to find a «mainstream» position on the Big Issues are almost always those who are committed on other grounds to a pluralist or relativist stance in matters of public debate.

Hence he can, for example, be of the opinion that the Church could give up the indissolubility of sacramental marriage just as well as the ecclesial form of contracting a marriage, or that she could change the very principles of sexual morality because formerly she took a different authoritative, though not definitive, view of their application, which will perhaps have to be revised.

It does not mean that anything has changed in terms of the theological and ecclesial distance between the Catholic Church and Pentecostal or evangelical ecclesial bodies.

But this does not dispense us from making plans, and even in ecclesial matters it does not permit us to live from day to day, wanting to hold God responsible for what man has to do.

Theology finds its own nature and becomes truly interesting only when it is not the personal theology of an individual theologian, but when it is «ecclesial» theology.

They must lead to the centre of Christianity, not away from it to petty devotions and similar caricatures of biblical and ecclesial Christianity.

Indeed, Cobb argues that confessional and creedal consensus is not essential for the denomination's mission, and he suggests that those who are overly concerned with doctrine are the real heretics who should look elsewhere for ecclesial homes.

Not only did it recognize the ecclesial reality of other Christian churches, but it stated explicitly that «whatever is wrought by the grace of the Holy Spirit in the hearts of our separated brethren can contribute to our own edification.»

It is not sufficient, however, to point out that there are innumerable ministries in the several Christian communities that insist on the objectivity of truth, the authority of Scripture and Spirit - guided interpretation, the ecclesial means of grace, and the reality of moral good and evil.

Among the Orthodox, according to Catholic doctrine, there are not just ecclesial communities but «particular churches,» although they are, in the language of CDF, «wounded» by the lack of full communion with the ministry of Peter exercised by the bishop of Rome.)

In such a view, the boundaries are not grounded in moral truth or fidelity to ecclesial vocation but would appear to be merely external limits on the expression of an otherwise amoral therapeutic.

Again, this is not a matter of boasting or of ecclesial rivalry, which should have no place among followers of Christ.

If these elements are accepted and enacted by the nine COCU denominations, their separate institutional existence will not thereby be ended, but the fashioning and functioning of the joints and ligaments of a united ecclesial body will begin.

It is not sufficient, however, to point out that there are innumerable ministries in the several Christian communities that insist on the objectivity of truth, the authority of Scripture and its Spirit - guided interpretation, the ecclesial means of grace, and the reality of moral good and evil.

It is one thing to hold a mild moral objection to a government program; an objection that is peripheral to one's fundamental beliefs and values, not central; an objection grounded on intuitive preference not closely tied to one's religious and ecclesial commitments.

Jacob's Well reveals the theological and ecclesial fissures not only in evangelicalism, but in Emergent itself.

Since he is a Methodist and not a Roman Catholic or Orthodox Christian, he recognizes that this leaves him with some problems of ecclesial authority.

Christian faith is essentially, and not just accidentally, ecclesial.

Christians will always be cultural exiles insofar as Christian Tradition is not co-extensive with any single culture or any form of ecclesial existence and thus calls all forms of life into judgment in the light of Christ.

(The latter commitment does not imply that all ecclesial traditions or ways of doing church are equal.)

In Not Every Spirit: A Dogmatics of Christian Disbelief (1994), Morse argues that faithful skepticism is a biblical no less than an ecclesial imperative.

A standard Protestant objection to Catholic Mariology is that she is not as important in scripture as she has become in ecclesial traditions.

Can youth ministry succeed in this if the ecclesial assembly does not itself embrace these practices and celebrate them?

Heythrop's overview goes on, «In so far as the formal structure of doctrinal catechesis is not explicit in Our Faith Story, its ecclesial mediation represents a more explicitly «person - centred» approach.»

Those of us who have been involved in designing and promoting various models for the process of sustained prophetic inquiry can testify to the general lack of interest of ecclesial bodies in such ministry: «social action» is by and large out, and, where it is a priority among church leaders, most of its practitioners are concerned with direct action, not action research.

Earlier Pope John Paul II had said that the Catholic Church is not suggesting that beyond its visible boundaries there is only an «ecclesial vacuum» (see the encyclical «That They May Be One»).

We Christians must not be interested in freedom only in so far as it affects our own religious or even ecclesial purposes.

The congregation is also available, present to all for entry and inquiry; one need not seek some more remote or less obvious ecclesial home.

That ambivalence is not a factor, of course, with the nearly one - half of adult converts who were never baptized and had no previous ecclesial affiliation.

Those who come from other ecclesial communities and enter into full communion with the Catholic Church encounter great joy among some Catholics that they have, not to put too fine a point on it, «come over to our side.»

Since ALL the Churches ACROSS the spectrum confess an allegiance to the ecumenical creeds [except some radical reformers, but I digress], the definition would certainly not be creedal or ecclesial.