Sentences with phrase «of ordained»

So the profession will always be around — but let's not get carried away by suggesting that driving transactions and litigation on behalf of corporates is some kind of ordained calling.

It is a document containing both things held to be true, it is decided upon at a meeting of those ordained to make decisions on matters of truth.

Homogeneous in tired costume and ashen faces, the destitute prisoners amble in silent futility — resigned to the dim prospects of their ordained condition.

We are highly committed to making sure Biafra comes under the command of our ordained leader and prophet, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.»

And to be fair, within just 20 years of women priests being possible it now has women making up about 50 % of those ordained as priests.

... Still trying to figure out if that's the case (there's no exhaustive list of ordained ministers that I'm aware of).

(In appealing to this angelic and gnostic tradition the monks will one day threaten the penitential functions of the ordained clergy.)

One of the factors contributing to disease in the life of many congregations is our confusion about the respective roles and functions of ordained and lay Christians, all of whom have been called to ministry.

Nevertheless I do want to point out on behalf of the ordained woman that she gets it with both barrels: the ministerial mystique from one side, the feminine mystique from the other.)

In our time many women (and I number myself among them) believe that the gifts of ordained leadership must be honored in women as well as in men.

The primary ministry of the ordained is to equip and sustain persons for ministry and to form Christian disciples.

It is my belief that some of the weakness of preaching stems from the fact that it has been thoroughly clericalized and made the exclusive responsibility of the ordained minister.

Feminine theology calls for an end to all authoritarian models of truth — including the model of the ordained minister or priest, for «ordination» means accepting the authority of the traditional Christian framework and being licensed to carry on that tradition.

It calls for an end to all authoritarian models of truth, including, in my mind, the model of the ordained minister or priest, who inevitably stands in the same relationship to the laity as does the divine image of God in Jesus to the followers of God.

What I'm saying is that there are literally millions of ordained ministers out there; and, it's up to each of us to weigh their advice and decide if it is the truth or not.

The whole solid structure of the ordained priesthood and of the Mass as a propitiatory sacrifice remained unreformed along with its financial basis.

The ministry of the ordained is always dependent for implementation on the ministry of the laity.

Within such an approach, several themes would play especially important roles: pastoral care as the ministry of the whole congregation in the world; the identity of the ordained minister in his or her pastoral office as both enabler and representative of the calling of all Christians to minister in the world; and a threefold focus of pastoral care, including the person or persons in need, the gospel of Jesus Christ, and the faith of the Christian church as represented in Scripture and tradition.

With increasing numbers of ordained women these concerns are common.

The Quakers have abandoned the idea of an ordained ministry.

Dennis Campbell, former dean of Duke University Divinity School, suggests that we must examine the vocation of ordained ministry more closely.

Its reliance on legislative and judicial procedures to decide a complex theological, moral, and ecclesial matter has only heightened even more the disagreement while minimizing the possibility of serious, sustained engagement on basic issues such as theological anthropology, justification and sanctification, the nature of sin, repentance and forgiveness, Scriptural authority, and the nature and purpose of ordained ministry.

I am an ordained minister (in the tradition that tried to deny me), the wife of an ordained minister turned coin dealer and stay at home dad, the mother of two (a feisty little girl and a strong - willed boy), and the chaplain at a women's liberal arts university.

She is not nearly so likely to receive encouragement from a number of adults in her pursuit of the ordained ministry.

This is true and necessary, but such discussion has tended to evade the question: So what, then, is the task of the ordained minister?

The discussion that follows is about the biblical bases and the historical development of the ordained ministry, which means not special privilege but particular responsibility.

Neither will a redistribution of the responsibility of ordained leaders of the church among the laity.

The separation of Christian nurture and teaching from the role of the pastor has greatly diminished the importance of the teaching office of ordained ministry.

It is a contemporary application of the historic formulation of the role of ordained church leaders as priestly, pastoral, and prophetic.

It is instructive to contrast this almost uniform sociological conception of the ordained ministry in Christianity, Catholicism and Protestantism alike, with the history of the rabbinate in Judaism.

The church also has a ministry of ordained persons which can trace its historical development back to very early Christian days.

The sacerdotal roles of ordained ministry have also their roots in gospel and order.

But the survival of the church of Christ is ironically and strangely identified with the survival of the ordained ministry.

Therefore, the vocation of ordained ministry includes the critical role of mediating the scriptural tradition in its purity to succeeding generations.

The Reformation, seeking to restore something of the prophetic emphasis, provided the basis of modern understanding by conflating four modes of ministry — priestly, kingly, prophetic, and pastoral — into one problematic, always ambiguous, but powerful model of ordained ministry.

The Hartford Study of Ordained Men and Women, conducted in 1993, found that many pastors drop in and out of ministry.

This book is a discussion of preaching, one of the central responsibilities of the ordained ministry of the Christian Church.

Here we are in the realm of speculation, of course, but we can say this at least: no preacher who knows his business and who is aware of «the wideness of God's mercy» can dare to talk as if only those who have visibly and expressly professed Christian faith are the concern of a deity whose «nature and name» is Love, Thus the preaching of the ordained minister must necessarily err, if it errs at all, on the side of generosity and charity.

Yet the Wall Street Journal recently highlighted a «true renewal» in numbers of ordained priests.

In the interim period most of these ordained minister - administrator - chaplains have been replaced, on the one side, by trained hospital administrators, and on the other side by trained chaplains.

The new website takes a lot of preparation and thought to feed your «congregated members»... an extension and furtherance of your ordained ministry.

Half of the ordained faculty and 40 percent of all faculty say that they lead worship at least once a month, and one quarter of the ordained faculty (who are 75 percent of the total) do so weekly.

The author sees the nature of the ordained ministry in terms of functions, or what the minister actually does, by examining the biblical bases and the historical development of ministry, and concludes that the church can only function with competent professional leadership.

A recent NCC study found one - third of all ordained women in this country in Pentecostalism and another one - third in paramilitary groups like the Salvation Army.

Senior pastors who are resigning or retiring can encourage that possibility by advising church leaders to explore the names of ordained women as potential candidates for filling the positions.

The institutional mechanisms that demand credentials over calling and encourage large bureaucratic congregations rather than small charismatic ones are easing the prophetic daughters out of the ordained ministry.

«Since then, seminary education, various internships and four years of ordained ministry have confirmed that I was made for this, that God is calling me to this.

And the product of this ordained se - xual encounter was one Ishmael, who is considered the antecedent of the Arabic people, from which Islam was fabricated.

Editor's Note: CNN International business news anchor Charles Hodson charts the journey that has taken him from the studio to the brink of ordained ministry — and explains how he plans to combine priesthood with his 34 - year career in broadcast journalism.

Even when students do successfully begin the task of articulating their own theological convictions, Boards of Ordained Ministry are often dissatisfied with the results.