Sentences with phrase «of apostolic faith»

Many others would agree on the second point, arguing that confession of the apostolic faith means much more than confessing the creed — whether that «more» involves sacramental unity or acting on behalf of justice.

My own approach has been to dig deeply into the core of my own tradition and to find there surprising convergences with other Christians drawn from the great heritage of the apostolic faith and the inspired Holy Scriptures we cherish in common.

The hierarchical minister fulfills also a representative function representing the unity of apostolic faith to the people of his church and, at the same time, representing his people to the other churches.

One thinks, for example, of the work of Faith and Order in producing the Lima document on baptism, eucharist, and ministry, or of the more recent common articulation of the apostolic faith as it is summarized in the Nicene Creed.

In consequence, we can now see that what we have in the New Testament is what I have called throughout this book «the witness of apostolic faith», while the Old Testament has its particular Christian significance in giving us the background of the event of Jesus Christ in the religious faith, worship, and teaching about God's will and way in the world as these were set forth in the Jewish scriptures which then became part of the Christian Bible.

Baptism, eucharist and ministry theologically belong to the wider horizon of the apostolic faith and it is the apostolic faith that the churches are being asked to discern and respond to in their responses to «Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry»» (p. 272).

His historical study had convinced him that the most faithful bearer of the apostolic faith was the great tradition of thought and practice as expounded by the orthodox Church Fathers.»

Thus, while it would be «episcopal» in the sense of joining together those from every participating body who represented the reality and continuity of apostolic faith, ministry and sacraments in that body, the council should include representatives of all participating ministries: presbyteral, diaconal and lay.

Recognizing the claim of biblical authority is not difficult as it pertains to the main affirmations of apostolic faith.

That flow of conviction about God's self - disclosure in the Bible is surely the main claim of the apostolic faith, a claim upon which the church fundamentally agrees.

First, all of us in the church are bound together by this foundation of apostolic faith.

Is it to be based on a generalized «theism» and strong structures, or a strong confession of apostolic faith?

Not exact matches

Urshan also equated the apostolic faith with Assyrian Christianity to the point of defending Nestorius and claiming that the western church went astray with its language of person.

Without denying the place that Protestant reformers occupy in evangelical faith, it should be said that classic Christian teaching, whether in the realm of doctrine or ethics, is best defined not against the backdrop of the sixteenth century, but rather in the light of the broader apostolic tradition.

The apostolic constitution Ex Corde Ecclesiae (ECE), «From the Heart of the Church,» which Pope John Paul II issued in 1990, was meant to articulate the relationship between higher education, faith, Christian....

The apostolic constitution Ex Corde Ecclesiae (ECE), «From the Heart of the Church,» which Pope John Paul II issued in 1990, was meant to articulate the relationship between higher education, faith, Christian culture, and the Roman Catholic Church.

The apostolic age also faced the problem of believers who knew the language of religion, but whose faith was exposed as a lie by the unrighteousness of their conduct:

We speak of the «deposit of faith» which is found in Scripture as authoritatively interpreted in the apostolic tradition under the promised guidance of the Holy Spirit.

If one really believes in justification by faith alone, differences over other matters — the real presence in the Eucharist, apostolic ministry, the indissolubility of marriage, the ordination of women, and on and on — make no difference.

The presence in so many parts of the country of secularized, non-religious, at times even antireligious institutions whose foundations were inspired by religious zeal and apostolic motives seems almost like empirical proof of the contention of positivists that faith and intelligence are incompatible.

He further says that the East Syrian church was under the ecclesiastical control of Antioch and the whole story of Thomas's work in the East is a fabrication by Edessa to assert its independence of Antioch and also to prove its orthodoxy in faith, Hence Brown rejected the East Syrian tradition concerning the apostolic activity of Thomas in India.

The first action of the Synod was to draw up a «true apostolic and orthodox» confession of faith which repudiated both Monophysitism and Chalcedonian orthodoxy of the West.

The authoritative word given by the Holy Spirit to the Church at the defining and pivotal moment of Vatican II nearly fifty years ago was especially «made incarnate» in Britain in September, 2010, during Benedict's apostolic visit: to seek unity with our separated brethren in the other Christian confessions, to affirm all that is good and true in secular culture without in any way watering down our witness to the truth of the fullness of the Christian faith, to declare without apology that the Catholic patrimony of faith and reason working in harmony remains a gift that the twenty - first century desperately needs if it is to avoid self - destruction, and which it neglects or dismisses at its own peril.

Father Hermann Geissler of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith believes that Cardinal John Henry Newman's four sermons on the apostolic zeal of St Paul can help all Catholics rediscover their missionary vocation.

This Easter message, accompanied by and confirmed by the apostolic experiences of «seeing» the exalted Jesus, produced the Easter faith.

But if, for the reasons outlined earlier in this chapter, the Easter message was already beginning to take shape in the minds of the disciples, of Peter in particular, the experience of seeing Jesus in his glorified state would have the effect of authenticating the Easter message and of causing the Easter faith to take possession of whoever heard it, and of those, in turn, who were convinced by the apostolic testimony.

This apostolic testimony to the appearances of Jesus remains an irreducible datum of the Easter faith.

Benedict announced the current Year of Faith in his apostolic letter Porta Fidei, or «Door of Faith.»

Methodists have said «the LDS Church is not a part of the historic, apostolic tradition of the Christian faith.»

Over the years I have learnt various parts of what can be called the «Faith» apostolic strategy, a strategy that we feel serves the needs of the contemporary Church.

Vatican II did indeed speak of a «hierarchy of truths» within the one Catholic and apostolic faith.

And so adequate a transcript of the event itself is this «remembering» community that the Resurrection of Jesus is not a datum of faith but a postulate of the community's experience, and the apostolic narratives of resurrection are superfluous, from the point of men of faith.

Keith R. Bridston, a former secretary of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches points out that the apostolic missionary outreach not only strained the territorial lines of unity identified with the original Jerusalem fellowship, but the success of the apostolic preaching among non-Jewish people meant that the unity of the church based on the ethnic homogeneity of the primitive fellowship of the Jewish disciples, had to be radically questioned and re-examined.

In any event, I find that I have begun the decade of the «80s still firmly committed to the same essential project with which I entered the «60s: to work toward a genuinely postliberal theology that, being sensitive at once to the human concern for freedom and to the claims of Christian faith, will be as concerned for the credibility of the church's witness when judged in terms of changing human experience as for the appropriateness of its witness when judged by reference to its abiding apostolic norm.

Those of us who came to love God through these separated communions are correct to declare our faith in the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church.»

I've known theologians who could explain away everything from the historically impossible numbers associated with Hebrew battles to the differing accounts of the Sermon on the Mount to the alternating emphases on works and faith in the apostolic letters.

While the possibility that infant baptism was also practised in the apostolic age can not be excluded, baptism upon personal profession of faith is the most clearly attested pattern in the New Testament documents.

Belief in the divine institution of the church became an article of faith, as in the words of the Creed, «I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic church».

Everything that we «know» about Jesus comes to us through the apostolic witness, as this has been handed down in the living tradition of the Christian community of faith, worship, and life.

[27] See for example Hans - Georg Link, ed., Apostolic Faith Today: A Handbook for Study, Faith and Order Paper No. 124 (Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1985), where it is pointed out that «this apostolic faith study is profoundly related to the convergence document on «Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry» and its reception process in the churFaith Today: A Handbook for Study, Faith and Order Paper No. 124 (Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1985), where it is pointed out that «this apostolic faith study is profoundly related to the convergence document on «Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry» and its reception process in the churFaith and Order Paper No. 124 (Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1985), where it is pointed out that «this apostolic faith study is profoundly related to the convergence document on «Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry» and its reception process in the churfaith study is profoundly related to the convergence document on «Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry» and its reception process in the churches.

10:38 - 42) 99 Both Martha and Mary are the paradigms for ideal discipleship and hence for effective leadership in the Church, because they exhibited the qualities of devotion, sacrifice, submission, service, faith, boldness and of apostolic witness.

In any case, I have taken a narrative from the Gospels, rather than the apostolic kerygma, as my illustration of how faith is generated mainly because the Gospels pose the problem of historical veracity much more acutely.

It may seem obvious enough to conclude that saving faith, which is the work of Christ, is given by the image of him that the New Testament evokes through its account of his words and deeds and of the apostolic word about him.

Hence the background against which we must study the Gospel of Mark is twofold: the evangelic tradition, which we considered in the preceding chapter, and the apostolic faith and its formulation in preaching, which we are considering in the present one.

The mental picture of the risen and ascended Christ, which the imagination of the Christian believer developed from the memories of the crucified Jesus of history and from the initial apostolic experience, expressed the sense of faith, hope and victory to which the believer had been led.

It met in the Vatican in 1869 - 1870, and its most notable decrees, later promulgated by the Pope, declared «that the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is, when in discharge of the office of pastor and doctor of all Christians, by virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine of faith and morals to be held by the universal Church, by the divine assistance promised to him in blessed Peter, is possessed of that infallibility with which the Divine Redeemer willed that His Church should be possessed for defining doctrine regarding faith or morals; and that therefore such definitions of the Roman Pontiff are irreformable of themselves, and not from the consent of the Church»; and that the Roman Pontiff has «full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the universal Church, not only in things which belong to faith and morals, but also in those which relate to the discipline and government of the Church spread throughout the world.»

God grant us a new prophetic voice in our time, perhaps rising up in protest from the pews, or sounding forth, as did Karl Barth, from an obscure and seemingly unimportant pulpit, a prophetic voice that proclaims justice and equality for women, but on the sure basis of the authority of the Bible and the equalizing nature of the apostolic Christian faith.

Through 30 years of teaching in seminaries I have become convinced that the church has largely failed in its mission of educating its people in the apostolic, biblical faith.

God was restoring New Testament experiences of the Holy Spirit — or, as devotees of the movement put it, restoring the apostolic faith.

Even the apostolic council in Jerusalem introduced nothing new in matters of faith but rather held that which St Peter concludes in Acts 6... the article that one is saved without the laws, solely through the grace of Christ.»