Sentences with phrase «of congregational»

Evaluation of a congregational training series promoting after - school programs for children and adolescents.

131 (1872), where the Court held that the appointed trustees of the property of a congregational church

Given the increasingly urgent need for courageous action to fight climate change and the environmental and human injustices that it causes (climate justice), we now require a new level of congregational engagement.

This can be accomplished by adapting a certain musical progression during the time of congregational singing.

The article, titled, «Social Context and College Completion in the United States: The Role of Congregational Biblical Literalism,» will be published in the upcoming edition of Sociological Perspectives.

We have in the sociological literature a rich tradition of field work, including in recent years a large number of participant - observer studies conducted in new religious movements and an increasing number of congregational studies, many of which have paid close attention to the ways in which religious symbols (both verbal and behavioral) are patterned.

Baird's contemporary advocate of «an earnest ministry» noted that the Sunday School, the cheap tract, and the religious periodical had become «competitors» with the pulpit «for the public mind,» and concluded that the ministers would have to turn on more heat.112 Charles G. Finney, always more blunt in saying what many of his Congregational and Presbyterian brethren really thought, openly advocated the creation of excitement in order to attract the attention of the unconverted — a view with which, as we have noted, Horace Bushnell was inclined to agree.

And see, e.g., the discussion of the objectives of the ministry in A Practical View of the Common Causes of Inefficiency in the Christian Ministry of the Congregational and Presbyterian Churches of the United States.

A congregation given to the cultivation of sacred «hot spots» in its life, whether liturgical or emotional in form, may amplify the linking action of congregational plot — the association of events for the purpose of identity — but the vivid occurrences do not in themselves qualify as sacred moments.

In pinpointing the nature of congregational conflicts, the study showed that disputes over «pastoral leadership style» ranked first, particularly among Presbyterian and Assemblies of God ministers.

Story expresses the intricacy of congregational life.

The nuance of Christ is more likely to appear when expressions of congregational culture are summarized.

In virtually every aspect of congregational expression, the discourse of members is in some manner narrative.

Most of the artists coming out of a holiness - pentecostal ethos were divided souls, split between the focus on holiness of behavior and the ecstatic moments of congregational worship.

The idea of congregational autonomy was to appear much later.

I find, for example, the five following characteristics in these liturgies: (1) an affinity with the liturgies of the ancient church; (2) an order that follows the pattern of revelation and Christian experience; (3) a significant emphasis on reading and hearing the Word of God; (4) a high degree of congregational involvement; and (s) a view of the Lord's Supper which affirms its mystery and value for spiritual formation.

As the themes of congregational ethos become clear to the team, it begins the search for representative myths.

Instead, the preacher might concentrate upon a mythic aspect of the congregational life in the previous month — the spirit, hero, or creature that seems to have been inhabiting the place — and wrestle with the way the gospel both emerges in that aspect and transforms it.

To address the norms of congregational faithfulness is to do constructive dogmatic theology and moral theology.

Moreover, the myth should illuminate the four basic elements of congregational character that have been mentioned before and utilized in each of the stories of churches presented in these latter chapters.

They are the ones a congregational study team will use in discerning the structure of the congregational story and its mythic parallels.

Many aspects of congregational worship throughout the year are historical commemorations which portray the present life of individual and group in the light of the past.

The recitation of such reports might be halved in length to make time for a group to dramatize the previous year, not in terms of congregational accomplishments but in terms of its crises, typical actions and moods, and specific hopes.

In the summer of 1952 the General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches was forced to take a vote on the propriety of the activities of its Council for Social Action.

Jean Haldane's interviews with Episcopal parishioners suggested that their faith journeys flowed along private streams fed by many springs, quite separate from the busy mainstream of congregational life (Religious Pilgrimage [Alban Institute, 1975], p. 10).

It is already a feature of congregational practice.

The preacher needs to be a keen moral detective of the congregational ethos.

With no governmental regulation or subsidy to keep outmoded religious institutions in place in the U.S., the social processes of congregational adaptation are critical to study and understand.

Constrained by a market that demands immediate results, consultants concentrate upon features of agony that are insoluble and responsive to treatment and tend to ignore the deeper and abiding dialectic of congregational life that stirs up the fights.

Remember the typology of literary genres used to distinguish the variety of congregational world views, and the corpus of world myths employed to interpret congregational ethos.

The major aspects of parish story already examined, setting and characterization, depict features of congregational life that — though by no means immutable — usually remain the same over long periods of time.

First, in the remainder of the present chapter, I examine how the actions of congregational plot parallel the struggles for survival of people everywhere, but especially the poor and oppressed.

The acceleration of congregational studies in the last quarter century sprang in part from fresh and troubling inquiry by sociologists who probed the parish as a social organization.

«61 In the organic approach, all parts are responsible for the whole as full partners in decision making, as attested by a number of books that began to appear in the 1970s to promote the democratization of congregational leadership.

Many professional church consultants follow mechanist approaches that work to increase the effectiveness of congregational programs.

They anticipate and welcome such achievements, but to them the primary need of churches today is the rationalization of congregational process and the animation of social will to achieve results.

If this is evidence of a resurgence of congregational vitality, the only response must be one of rejoicing.

This book had its origin in lectures at the General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches in Claremont, California, in 1952 and the Nathaniel W. Taylor lectures at the Yale Divinity School in 1953.

Writing in 1982, after a decade in which the church as a whole had pursued the inner mechanisms of congregations, several sociologists reported as follows: «We share the conviction that in recent years congregational analysis has over-emphasized the internal dynamics of congregational life and has failed to sufficiently account for the influence of the social and ecological context of the church's inner life.

Conference planners had hoped to get across the notion that the use of more than one disciplinary lens provided a much more mteresting and useful picture of the multiple facets of congregational life — and by all accounts, they succeeded.

Cnaan's optimistic view of congregational capacity directly challenges sociologist Mark Chaves's often - cited finding that most congregations are small and not especially involved in providing social services.

A congregation of moderate size located in an upper - middle - class bedroom community in New England, Wiltshire offered the scholars a chance to demonstrate the range of insight that could be gained through the use of their specific disciplines in the service of congregational analysis.

Simeon J. Maslin is president of the Beard of Rabbis of Greater Philadelphia and senior rabbi of Congregational Keneseth Israel.

Indeed, the rather good music might have suggested a Lutheran setting, even as the utter lack of congregational singing might have warned one that not all would be well.

There we have an example of congregational care and discipline that joins together for the upbuilding of the Christian community.

The other Reformers followed Luther's lead, writing their own catechisms and making catechetical instruction an important part of congregational life in virtually every part of the reform movement.

It was Wheeler who was asked to write the closing chapter, assessing the import of congregational studies for the future of the church, of the upcoming book reporting on the findings presented at the Atlanta conference (Building Effective Ministry: Theory and Practice of the Local Church, to be published by Harper & Row in early 1983).

His own concentrated study of the dynamics of small churches and churches in changing communities has made him increasingly in demand around the country as a perceptive observer of the dynamics of congregational life.

It is quite clear to him that «the way in which we have tried to hear the church has been shaped by patterns of convenience, rather than the much more difficult commitment to ascertain what's going on through close analysis of congregational life.

Members of a church may identify the focus of their common hope with the phenomenon of warmth20 and point to specific occurrences of warmth in places or phases of congregational life.21 Members of Corinth Methodist experienced warmth at various physical and temporal thresholds that bound its life to its larger neighborhood.