Sentences with phrase «of ordinands»

In the English Alternative Service Book (pp. 356 and following), the bishop who is ordaining candidates for the priesthood is directed to speak in this fashion in what is called «The Declaration»; which is then followed by questions and answers in - tended to demonstrate the reality of the ordinands» «call to ministry»:

Although my entire ministerial career has been spent in the teaching of ordinands, in theological colleges and seminaries and then in a university setting.

«Libby brings a wealth of experience in parish ministry, in hospital and FE chaplaincy, in vocations work and the nurture of ordinands.

Conservative churches turn out to be indirectly ensuring the survival of liberal churches this way a proportion of their ordinands become more liberal and go on to pastor liberal congregations, or turn evangelical churches into liberal ones.

In lectures, the bad lads sat at the back, and most of the ordinands sat at the front.

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Nestled in the picturesque Bavarian Alps, Ettal became a sanctuary for Bonhoeffer as he found himself zwischen den Zeiten — still officially a pastor of the Confessing Church charged with training ordinands for ministry, yet drawn inexorably into a conspiracy against Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime.

After the forced closing of Finkenwalde, Bonhoeffer continued to illegally train students to serve in the Confessing Church through underground pastorates and through the system of supporting ordinands in «collective pastorates» in eastern Pomerania.

Chris Russell was sitting with his undergraduate theology buddies in the back row of a Durham University lecture theatre when an older, unknown ordinand...

The dean and faculty welcomed their redesignation as a nondenominational School of Religion, which then exposed them to almost total isolation when the church withdrew recognition of its right to prepare ordinands.

Richard Stein, an ordinand in his final year of training for ministry, described the process as an enriching one that led him to embrace a more evangelical theology than the one he had arrived with: «I came into college with a fairly open view towards homosexuality, and even said I'd be happy to perform gay marriages.

«We've seen an increase in membership among younger clergy and younger ordinands and a lot of them, myself included, don't come from a church background,» he added.

To this I can only reply that this is what I myself was taught, first, as part of instruction given in my parish as a child and later, with many refinements and qualifications, in lectures in theology as an ordinand — although I should add that my teacher was himself, quite obviously, very ill at ease about the scheme, left it to the very end of his course, and even then touched upon it gingerly.

He maintained that all ordinands should be required to study at least one of the sciences.