Sentences with phrase «of church as institution»

Of course, we look back to the first Christian century through spectacles which have been ground and colored by some sixteen hundred years of the history of the church as an institution coextensive with the state.

But because the church must learn to be the community of faith, we must abandon the idea of the church as an institution of power.

In the last century the Church was presented as a full and perfect society, on the same level as the state; at the same time, emphasis was placed on the hierarchical and juridical aspects of the Church as institution.

Then, even more so, I think the spiritual health of the churchâ $ ™ s members must not be linked to the income and profitability of the church as an institution.

More and more stress was placed on the growth of the Church as an institution; hence the stress on advertising to persuade the people to come in.

Not exact matches

Pollsters first began tracking Americans» confidence in their major institutions — such as the church and the Supreme Court — as a result of the rancor caused by the Vietnam War and Watergate.

Churches can and should play a role, of course, as should Christian institutions such as colleges.

A victim told the court: «To have trusted institutions such as the church and the legal system allow lawyers to try and discredit me - to seed doubt of my character into the jury about how trustworthy I was - has stayed with me and led to a deep rooted mistrust of myself.

The question of Catholic institutions like Notre Dame — their odd relation to the Church and their peculiar relation to the nation — is already pressing on us, and it requires no great leap to predict that, over the next decade, this question will dominate the public stage as the central Catholic problem of our time: the locus of media attention and the flashpoint for the arguments of Catholics with one another.

Well before that, we will see increasing legislation, taxation, and state licensing directed, in the name of gay rights, against church halls and schools and charities: all the Catholic institutions that can be identified as offering some kind of public access and accommodation.

Of course, that Catholic culture was fading at exactly the moment the Land O» Lakes statement codified its necessity, and that left us only with things like Land O» Lakes and its many imitations and successors: documents that define America's Catholic colleges as institutions that exist fundamentally over against the Church.

The parallel theme plays out in saying the act of sex is wicked outside of marriage and can only be made pure by the institution of marriage as defined and administered by the church.

Editor's Note: In light of the recent allegations surfacing about Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, this article is worth revisiting as a reminder that Christians, churches and conservative institutions are far from immune from sex scandals.

Editor's Note: In light of the recent allegations surfacing about Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, this article is worth revisiting as a reminder that Christians, churches and conservative institutions are far...

One of the least effective, and usually counterproductive, ways for churches as institutions to care is to take political positions on bow such problems are to be remedied.

If we define the church as those who are part of the body of Christ, obviously there are those both within the institution and outside the institution who are the church, just as there are those both within the institution and outside the institution who are not part of the body of Christ.

Besides polluting the free flow of ideas, manipulations such as these are nothing less than subversive: they undermine the United States and its institutions — universities, the press, charitable groups, foundations and the churches — by exploiting the legitimacy they may inherently possess, in order to gain for insidious designs credibility which the CIA would not otherwise be able to command.

Over the course of a few years, there would be an erosion of the Church's public presence, as Catholic institutions find themselves burdened by fines and unable to offer health coverage.

Perhaps the bishops, still Soviets at heart, regarded the lay movements as dangerously democratic, a threat to top - down control of church institutions.

From what little I have read so far of Jeremy's writings, it seems he understands that the institutions of «The Church» and «Christianity» are not the true ekklesia of God, just as the nation called «Israel» was not the true «Israel» of God.

Yes, spiritual warfare on every front of Christendom and when these hit pieces come out against the men of God who lead these churches (institutions as you call them), I believe it aids and abets the enemy.

I'd absolutely love to hear stories of churches (defined as institution) who have decided to live simply and share their wealth with the poor.

The so called «new way» of doing church is an institution as well.

At the beginning of the Sixties, the National Council of Churches, ecumenical embodiment of mainline Protestantism, was as secure in the pantheon of influential American institutions as the American Medical Association and the American Bar Association.

For centuries, the Church's credibility as an institution that seeks truth has been called into question due to the error of theologians who mistook phenomenological language in Scripture for ontological language.

Evangelicals insist I MUST believe in the Trinity and JW's don't want to touch me with a barge pole, so I'm stuck in the middle; but you are like a breath of fresh air as you prize away people from orthodoxy of «religion» and a dependence on institutions to the true Church, the Body of Christ.

But it had very little effect on the School of Theology at Claremont as an institution, and our graduates have had very little effect on the church as an institution.

The Drift of the Diocese Is there, in the English Catholic Church, a crisis of confidence in the diocese as an institution which can be relied on: both to defend the integrity of the Catholic faith...

We can get it quite wrong in how we function as the church, but it's important, in my mind, to distinguish that form the viability of the institution itself.

He continued: «Despite the claims of some, that religious freedom will be protected, all proposed legislation to date has been totally inadequate to safeguard people who work for church - run institutions such as schools, hospitals and universities.

More than once this has happened through the work of a devoted and persistent minority when the Church as a whole, enmeshed as a social institution in its surrounding culture, lagged behind.

What organized institution is there, apart from the church, that has as its major purpose the fostering of Justice, Mercy, and Truth and the Freedom that they jointly make possible.

For Catholic schools to be a worthwhile enterprise for the Church, they must survive and flourish as institutions where pupils grow in a «personal relationship with Jesus» which includes following the teaching of Jesus, through His Church, that we should attend Mass every Sunday, go to confession regularly, say our prayers and be loyal to the magisterium - especially in its moral teaching regarding the sanctity of human life, and the meaning and purpose of sex and marriage, in accord with Humanae Vitae and Evangelium Vitae.

Even as the absence of a feudal order and established church have shaped American institutions and political habits, the dialectic of a feudal order and established churches and of secularist rejection of religion has structured European attitudes toward the United States, particularly toward the American experiment in religious freedom and toward the seemingly unabating religious vitality that this system has produced.

While it is certainly true that we, as members of the Church, often fail to live up to our primary vocation to be the presence of Christ in the world, we also recognise that the Church is of divine institution.

The identity of the Church according to the model we have been suggesting is not found in an essential definition of its nature as an institution, but in the function of its evolution.

The Church should not be thought of purely as an organisation or as an institution.

«The first iteration of the mandate in 2011 created an onerous burden for institutions that conscientiously object to providing contraceptives and / or abortifacients for religious reasons, as it contained only a very narrow exemption that applied to a small number of churches,» stated the council.

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?»

But as Joseph Bottum has suggested, «the single most significant fact over the past few decades in America — the great explanatory event from which follows nearly everything in our social and political history — is the crumbling of the Mainline [Protestant] churches as central institutions in our national experience.»

We need to foster a sense in the church that the polity and skills of workplace and family finally take precedence over the polity and skills that serve the church as institution.

An appreciation of the character of a voluntary institution as a vehicle of the life of the church and a willingness to learn how the particular congregation and denomination are organized for nurture and mission so that they may accept responsibility for making these institutions work to these ends.

I propose that in this particular issue, where the church has had a marvellous opportunity to project itself into the public sphere as an institution that can be trusted, and to proclaim in deed the gospel of justice and restoration, the church's actions have contradicted its gospel message.

But the church as we know it... the structure, the organization, the institution... in other words, the manifestation of the church... that is undergoing a...

If you have left the church or have found it mainly harmful and have experienced, as a result of your beliefs, opinions or attitudes, rejection from the institution and its leaders and members, this does not make you valueless.

But the church as we know it... the structure, the organization, the institution... in other words, the manifestation of the church... that is undergoing a massive shift.

I do not expect that many who hold authority in the church or other dominant institutions of our lives will be converted, en masse or as individuals, to the serious work of justice - making with compassion and good humor as their top priority.

As for the Naked Pastor blog, I think money grabbing and ego - power - trips by pastors are the least of everybody's concerns about the institution of church.

As McBrien noted, this powerfully suggests the need to be attentive to justice issues within as well as outside the church This principle of sacramentality undergirds the statement in the U.S. Catholic bishops» pastoral letter Economic Justice for All: «All the moral principles that govern the just operation of any economic endeavor apply to the church and its agencies and institutions; indeed the church should be exemplary» (no. 347As McBrien noted, this powerfully suggests the need to be attentive to justice issues within as well as outside the church This principle of sacramentality undergirds the statement in the U.S. Catholic bishops» pastoral letter Economic Justice for All: «All the moral principles that govern the just operation of any economic endeavor apply to the church and its agencies and institutions; indeed the church should be exemplary» (no. 347as well as outside the church This principle of sacramentality undergirds the statement in the U.S. Catholic bishops» pastoral letter Economic Justice for All: «All the moral principles that govern the just operation of any economic endeavor apply to the church and its agencies and institutions; indeed the church should be exemplary» (no. 347as outside the church This principle of sacramentality undergirds the statement in the U.S. Catholic bishops» pastoral letter Economic Justice for All: «All the moral principles that govern the just operation of any economic endeavor apply to the church and its agencies and institutions; indeed the church should be exemplary» (no. 347).

I believe that the church as an organization is a part of creation and is just as susceptible to the principalities and powers as any other human institution.