Sentences with phrase «of modern church»

It appears that the paradigm of the modern Church has mainly been based on some fragments of the truth rather than the comprehensive totality of understanding God and His Kingdom

Students to explore the key features of the modern church and its role within the community.

We are often told — and FAITH magazine has played its own part in telling — about the problems of the modern Church.

However, I do feel very strongly that most of the modern church has wandered away from what Christ taught.

Heavily influenced by the Enlightenment and the philosophical tradition of Logical Positivism (the idea that if something is not able to be judged true or false, then we are rationally compelled to ignore it as irrelevant), much of the modern Church has bought into the belief that the truth of Christianity should be treated like any other set of factual claims, and that people of faith can somehow rationally observe ultimate truth with a level of personal detachment and objectivity.

For them the Tridentine liturgy has become a totem of this wider rejection of the modern Church.

While this statement may be less true in some forms of evangelical worship, it is generally true of all modern church experience.

Reinhold Niebuhr, «The Weakness of the Modern Church,» Essays in Applied Christianity, pp. 69 - 70 (hereafter cited as Niebuhr, «The Weakness of the Modern Church»).

He was talking about the failure of the modern church to admit the presence of the dark side of God when he said, «He realized that they clung desperately to the God of love out of fear of facing the darker side of God.

At the same time, we need to acknowledge points of dissimilarity between the early church's teaching and that of the modern church, especially those that speak of peace.

An oft - heard critique of the modern Church is that we're losing people not because we've made Christianity too difficult, but because we've made it too easy.

Joanna Bogle appears to view the state of the modern Church through double - glazed, rose - tinted glasses.

Sexual addictions are frequently touted as being the scourge of the modern church, and our answer to people struggling has too often been a simple, «flee from immorality!»

What the term is meant to designate is indicated rather indirectly by the character of modern church architecture and by the perverted form in which the idea occurs.

The problems and possibilities of modern church architecture are sensibly addressed by another Catholic writer, Michael E. DeSanctis, a professor of fine arts at Gannon University.

This sort of teaching was part of the Gnostic heresy in the early church, but has worked its way through numerous forms of the modern church as well.

In his recent and final book Catholicism and Democracy, the late Cambridge scholar Émile Perreau - Saussine attempts to defuse that anger by presenting a long view of modern Church history.

One of the greatest downfalls of the modern church era is the movement away from genuine relationships, and into the corporate model of the church where we think the most important thing is to increase our market share, and expand our influence through size, numbers, and a year - over-year increase in attendance and giving.

Homosexuality is a very sensitive subject within the culture of the modern church.

Whatever the ultimate outcome for Bonhoeffer in the history of doctrine and the history of the modern church, his name is certainly one of influence.

Despite the efforts of the Modern Church People's Union and «Sea of Faith» conferences and other theologically radical groups, many questioning followers of Jesus have drifted away from church life, or at least from participation in the church's decision - making forums, thus allowing undue influence to more traditional positions.

I also recommend Gary DeMar's book «Last Days Madness: Obsession of The Modern Church», he successfully debunks the rapture, the seven day tribulation period and more.

Nothing could be a greater indictment of the modern Church than this (The Myth of a Christian Religion).

«Christian leaders consider it a powerful tool for fighting what they say is one of the modern church's biggest problems: p * rn addiction.»

Many believers, including many Christian leaders, consider it a powerful tool for fighting what they say is one of the modern church's biggest problems: porn addiction.

Yet we can find all of these models at work in one way or another in many of our modern churches.

It is an amazing critique of modern churches and how they are no longer standing up for the truth, but instead cater to the demands and desires of people.

For example, the event of the Enlightenment has inescapably become part of modern churches» internal history.

Not exact matches

That's the vision of Harvard geneticist George Church, who has been experimenting with recreating an actual Wooly Mammoth by combining DNA from one of the long dead creatures found frozen in Siberia with material from modern elephants.

MLK Now, in its third consecutive year focused on the contributions of women to the modern movement for parity in the celebration of the ideals of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was held at Riverside Church Jan. 15, 2018, the site where Dr. King gave his controversial 1967 «Beyond Vietnam» speech.

Very well located in the central distric of Paris — between the Center Pompidou (Paris Museum of Modern art), the iconic Stravinsky fountain and Saint - Merri Church — myCowork Beaubourg opened in august 2017.

The topics and texts include some esoteric items, such as the ranking of churches and discussion about a common calendar; but they also include problems that emerge from adapting an ancient faith to a modern reality — like precepts of fasting and, in particular, regulations of marriage in a multicultural and interreligious world.

The Bible teaches us our churches are the last place Jesus would be... he would be with the homeless and ill of our society... not at these modern so called houses of worship... hypocrites are every where!

Far from seeking his own advancement, each move up the echelons of the episcopal ladder has been met with surprise by Justin Welby, perhaps influenced by the fact he was told there wasn't «place for him in the modern Church of England» when he first applied for ordination.

Th UK Methodist Church I go to basically has the «ordinary good manners» rules you might expect to find anywhere in society (if you weren't busy being too modern to believe in manners at all) and I've seen no trace of any other rule.

I don't like it when atheists want to secularize our culture and shut out any public mention of religion... But I also don't like it when modern evangelical fundamentalists are so ignorant of the Christian Church's teachings and traditions of two thousand years.

There are other big differences between Mormonism and traditional Christianity, including the Mormon belief that the modern prophets of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints can receive revelations from God.

The Mormons got this right, and as explained in Corinthians, the modern christian churches have lost the principle of baptism for the dead... and ultimately lost the doctrine of a just God.

But the church is not in possession of a tax code, a budget plan, or a one - size - fits - all solution to modern woes like the cost and availability of health care.

Nor was it true of the Church's accommodation of Renaissance opulence or early modern ideologies about the divine right of kings.

As a historian I do not want people downplaying horrific events for modern points - be it the early persecution of the church, the Crusades, the holocaust - whatever it might be.

Levy, a professor of historical theology at Providence College, overturns the image of a placid medieval Church and shows instead that the crises of interpretive authority that we associate with the early modern period in fact have their roots in the turbulent controversies of the Middle Ages.

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There is a story of a churchwarden (senior lay person) who went to hear a modern theologian speak — in the questions he got up and said that he was disappointed that his vicar wasn't there because that was the kind of thing he wanted to hear in his church.

Revd Dr Angus Morrison, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, said: «It is hoped that through this new position the Church can meet farmers where they are and build relationships that will allow an understanding of the issues and stresses related to modern - day farming.

The Catholic church is loosing member in the modern society because of its failure to understand the real world.

I contend the use of modern birth control has only become a sin, because the Catholic Church has said it is.

Easter is one of the most celebrated festivals of the modern Christian church.

The founding fathers almost got it right, instead of simple separation of church and state, they should have clearly stated that there is no place for religion in the modern world.

For instance, an attempt to root out modern elements in the church ought to be viewed with the same suspicion we should have for any systematic program of destruction.