Sentences with phrase «of orthodox churches»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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 leaderOf 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 leaderof 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 leaderof 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.