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When we reflect that the original message of Jesus was an eschatological proclamation of the dawning of the Kingdom of God, that the patristic Church transformed this message by a dissolution and elimination of its apocalyptic ground, that, ever since, the dogmatic and ritual foundations
of the orthodox Church have been non-apocalyptic, and that it has only been in the non-verbal arts that Christendom has produced an apocalyptic imagery, then on this ground alone we would be fully justified in pronouncing Blake to be a revolutionary artist and seer.
Thanks jellyfishdude — I am fully educated on the schism and consider my orthodox brothers the same as me but I do not appreciate how
some of the orthodox churches deny some sacraments in western christianity.
While the historical questions surrounding their approach are complex, I suggest that members
of orthodox churches should hesitate about following it, even as they learn from Pagels and company.
A self - acclaimed prophet in one
of the orthodox churches in Lagos State, Moses Edwin, has been arrested by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad for allegedly stealing $ 500.
Not exact matches
Having lived with a servant
of the Word for more than fifty years in three Lutheran
churches, I have this question: Why is it that the «white, middle - class, traditional,
orthodox theologians» being told that their understanding
of the
church is no longer relevant, are told this by «white, middle - class theologians?»
It would be wonderful indeed if the LDS
Church adopted more
orthodox theological positions, as the Worldwide
Church of God seems to have done thirty years ago.
Confessional Protestants — those whose
churches explicitly hold to one
of the great Protestant confessions
of the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries and who value classical
orthodox formulations as being faithful to scripture — should focus their ecumenical energy in dialoguing and working with those denominations which share their most basic commitments, especially to the Nicene Trinitarian identity
of God.
Within both
of these
churches one can find large numbers
of local congregations in which
orthodox faith, sacramental integrity, sound preaching, and missions
of charity live and flourish.
Catholics, in turn, teach that the Magisterium exercised by the successors
of the apostles — which they believe is intended by Christ, is guided by the Holy Spirit, and is in clear continuity with the
orthodox tradition — enables the
Church to explicate the truth
of Holy Scripture obediently and accurately.
My
orthodox church takes care
of muslim graves that have been left at the monastery which used to be a mosque.
It is an adventurous work
of theological speculation on creation «out
of nothing,» the
Church and her sacraments, and the meaning
of eschatology, including an imaginatively
orthodox (and
Orthodox) treatment
of whether all, including the evil angels, will at last be redeemed.
The Christian Zionist distortions
of historic evangelical and
orthodox theology must be debated and confronted primarily by evangelicals but also by mainline Protestants, whose
churches sometimes absorb these doctrines.
The eternity
of the Son was a major concern in the development
of the
orthodox doctrine
of the Trinity in the early
church.
How then do we present the
Church's teaching to the modern world in its
orthodox meaning, yet without introducing any sense
of arbitrariness or incoherence into God's works, which is what the thinkers named above were all rightly keen to avoid?
Of course it would be naïve to assume that sitting down with ISIS terrorists would produce a quick change of heart, but a fearless, coherent defence of orthodox Christian belief about the human person, human love and thus human society is essential and is, at present, generally lacking even among church leader
Of course it would be naïve to assume that sitting down with ISIS terrorists would produce a quick change
of heart, but a fearless, coherent defence of orthodox Christian belief about the human person, human love and thus human society is essential and is, at present, generally lacking even among church leader
of heart, but a fearless, coherent defence
of orthodox Christian belief about the human person, human love and thus human society is essential and is, at present, generally lacking even among church leader
of orthodox Christian belief about the human person, human love and thus human society is essential and is, at present, generally lacking even among
church leaders.
While we may believe in the Holy Spirit as a manifestation
of God's presence in the world, we sometimes wonder if the
church's early theologians invented this connection as an explanation
of the continuity between Jesus and themselves, and if this invention didn't in turn and inadvertently lead to
orthodox formulations about the Trinity that belied the Spirit's reality, much as the Kinsey Report misleads readers about the real joy and meaning
of sex.
Obviously, many
of the members
of the
churches were conservative or
orthodox rather that liberal, so that blaming liberalism alone is an exaggeration.
I have never thought
of the progressive
church as a response to the religious right or to the conservative or the creedal or
orthodox church.
Origen, for this and other idiosyncrasies such as his universalist doctrine
of apokatastasis, 32 came to be identified not as
orthodox but heterodox by the
church's official leadership.
Neo-fundamentalists believe they alone are remaining true to the fullness
of the gospel and
orthodox faith while the rest
of the evangelical
church is in grave, near - apocalyptic danger
of theological drift, moral laxity, and compromise with a postmodern culture — a culture which they see as being characterized by a skepticism towards Enlightenment conceptions
of «absolute truth,» a pluralistic blending
of diverse beliefs, values, and cultures, and a suspicion
of hierarchies and traditional sources
of authority.
Many other saintly authorities could be quoted, but one hopes that this helps to reassure those who, in the current climate
of tension, have been made nervous and perhaps over cautious about what truly belongs to the
orthodox tradition
of the
Church.
I may be not very
orthodox but I think that one
of the worst mistakes the early
Church Fathers did was to accept the Apocalypsis (Revelations) as a Canonigal book.
We also wish warmly to affirm those sisters and brothers, already in membership with
orthodox churches, who — while experiencing same - sex desires and feelings — nevertheless battle with the rest
of us, in repentance and faith, for a lifestyle that affirms marriage [between a man and woman] and celibacy as the two given norms for sexual expression.
Everything, including
church acceptance, the love
of my brethren; in some cases, my livelihood, for some - a smoldering pyre; whether branded a heretic, or
orthodox.
More often, within otherwise
orthodox circles, this teaching seems to be downplayed in favour
of a simple reassertion
of Church teaching or an encouragement
of reverent liturgy, crucial as both
of these are.
It offers a rationale that could underpin an explanation
of the reservation
of the priesthood to men only, and that could develop an
orthodox and fruitful understanding
of the role
of women in the
Church.
Within the
Church the impact
of the pontificate
of Blessed John Paul, and its consolidation under Pope Benedict, has provided a new generation
of young priests who are firmly
orthodox and fully aware
of what is going on in education.
the blood
of the martyrs fills the soil
of our country from north to south and from east to west... many
of the bodies are recovered and are broken between
churches all over egypt and the rest
of the world and by the way the movie was not made by Coptic Christians at least not
orthodox anyway.
This phrasing
of faith, impossible in the first years
of the Christian movement, emerged only when the convictions
of the
church were so well formulated that the acceptance
of orthodox teaching could be a major criterion
of Christian discipleship.
The «
orthodox» Protestant may say that he tolerates radical heresies in his
Church only for the sake
of freedom
of conscience and teaching, but that they are not for this reason part
of the official creed
of his
Church, while that
of the Catholic
Church includes doctrines which he must reject in conscience, even if it were only the doctrine
of the infallibility
of the Pope or perhaps a Marian dogma.
Prof. Fackre and others who are working to restore
orthodox Christian teaching in the United
Church of Christ are to be warmly applauded.
The hermaphroditic blasphemy is a generated or vegetated Christ and a virgin Eve — the
orthodox image
of Christ, for the
Church castrated Jesus when it locked the memory
of his generation in the image
of a virgin birth, just as it dehumanized and falsely spiritualized his body in its belief in the ascension.
Two things: (1) that I place myself firmly and staunchly within the
Church and the Christian faith; and (2) that I am firmly and staunchly convinced that much
of what the
Church has taught as doctrine for most
of its twenty centuries, and much
of what constitutes
orthodox belief today, is just plain wrong.
There are so many stories
of people, INCLUDING THE GREEK
ORTHODOX CHURCH going well out
of their way to save people.
Essentially the
orthodox Church wanted to defend its conviction that in the person
of Jesus Christ and in the experience
of God present in Christian life and worship, the believer was met by very God.
They assume not only a settled ecclesiastical system in the
Church, but also an established body
of orthodox beliefs against which to judge heresy and, what is most significant, a collection
of Christian Scriptures.
The fact that she immigrated from the Soviet Union where there was an
orthodox and corrupted
church to the United States where the dominant strain
of Christianity is Protestant is the real reason her philosophy contrasts so greatly with Christian Religion.
He recommends, for example, some
of the ideas
of Notre Dame architecture professor Philip Bess, an
orthodox Catholic and leading New Urbanist, who has argued that parishes or congregations ought to consider building new
churches as components
of new mixed - use neighborhoods.
However, what really characterizes the Irish
Church of the mid-twentieth century is a highly
orthodox rigorism: most Irish Bishops were canonists rather than theologians, and that legalism ran through everything.
For the most part I was not raised in the
orthodox christian
church so that doctrine was never much
of a problem for me but it is standard teaching for the Baptist, Penetecostals ect....
I'm in the odd and awkward place
of holding a theology that is both
orthodox and classical, but the
church in which I learned it has decided to be something else and leave its theology behind.
(Although he took a few positions that were deemed heretical after his death, most
of Origen's writings were
orthodox; he was always considered a Father
of the
Church.)
Because he believes that both the Bible and the
orthodox tradition
of the
church support inerrancy, Lindsell feels justified in denying the term «evangelical» to those who reject this doctrine.
Verses 27 - 31 suggest a contrast between Jesus and the (as in 13:20 - 30); some have thought that this reflects an early
church struggle with
orthodox Judaism, but it can be more easily understood as Jesus» own criticism
of the wealth and worldliness
of the Sadducees
of his own day.
The «
orthodox» theologian, for example, is content to find sufficient warrants and backings for his or her theological statements in the «beliefs»
of a particular
church tradition.
They will drive the Experimentalists out
of the
churches and then reabsorb the Institutionalists who, under pressure, will become more
orthodox... The
Church will shrink from left to right.»
«2 The diversity which Henry, as one
of modern evangelicalism's founders, laments has been noted more positively by Richard Quebedeaux in his book The Young Evangelicals - Revolution in Orthodoxy.3 In this book Quebedeaux offers a typology for the conservative wing
of the Protestant
church, differentiating Separatist Fundamentalism (Bob Jones University, Carl McIntire) from Open Fundamentalism (Biola College, Hal Lindsey), Establishment Evangelicalism (Christianity Today, Billy Graham) from the New Evangelicalism (Fuller Theological Seminary, Mark Hatfield), and all
of these from the Charismatic Movement which cuts into
orthodox, as well as ecumenical liberal and Roman Catholic constituencies.
The idea that the
church began at Pentecost proceeds from the novel doctrine
of Dispensationalism I believe; the historic
orthodox church has no such notion.
It is rare for The Tablet not to offer a word or ten concerning prominent
orthodox initiatives from the hierarchy
of the
Church, especially when they come from Rome, but also when they come from local hierarchies.