Sentences with phrase «of their particular churches as»

Justice Rehnquist today suggests that we abandon Lemon entirely, and in the process limit the reach of the Establishment Clause to state discrimination between sects and government designation of a particular church as a «state» or «national» one.

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This particular church is a «breakaway faction» of South Korea's Unification Church, which is widely regarded as a cult, according to the Associated church is a «breakaway faction» of South Korea's Unification Church, which is widely regarded as a cult, according to the Associated Church, which is widely regarded as a cult, according to the Associated Press.

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.

She cites John's emphasis on personal faith, de-emphasis of high offices, and prioritization of Christology as ways in which this particular gospel has deeply influenced low - church liturgical practices.

The trigger words are «resisting the Holy Spirit» — the ideology in this particular Church is based on outward signs of physical evidence of the Spirit of God, instead of the fruits of the Spirit, as proof of the Holy Spirit.

I consider myself a «Christ Follower» as opposed to one of a particular religion (my reason is, the church never saved anyone.

Most disagree with the practices, interpretation and doctrine of the other sects and many consider anyone who isn't in their particular church as «not true Christians».

Given a Reformed ecclesiology, an individual believer seems to have no reason to accept a particular ecclesial body as part of the «true Church,» unless its interpretation of the Gospel matches the believer's own.

This rules out the prayers of the churches of Christendom who have prayed in behalf of their particular nation during wartime, such as when German Catholic bishops issued a pastoral letter in September 1939 at the outbreak of WWII that said: «In this decisive hour we admonish our Catholic soldiers to do their duty in obedience to the Fuehrer (Hitler) and to be ready to sacrifice their whole individuality.

In the Renaissance we witness a new attempt at the Cappadocian gambit: an appropriation of the cultural achievements of the Ancient world, of Platonism in particular, as well as a dramatically heightened presence of the Church in the world of culture.

When, two centuries ago, your Church began to feel the particular power of your heart, it might have seemed that what was captivating men's souls was the fact of their finding in you an element even more determinate, more circumscribed, than your humanity as a whole.

Although the Church has preserved a tradition as a patron of the arts for more than a millennium, and the great mediaeval cathedrals in particular have portrayed Christianity through their paintings, sculptures, and perhaps especially their windows, Catholic teachers are now refocusing on literary, cultural and artistic beauty as a conscious resource for the transmission of the faith.

«The challenge», wrote Father Alexander Lucie - Smith in his Catholic Herald blog shortly after the Holy Father had announced his resignation, «will be in having to watch the airwaves fill with a whole load of people who are very marginal to Church life, and yet who will be invited to pontificate on all matters papal and religious, giving it their own particular slant, which they will advance as a mainstream view.»

After lunch, Father Ed settles down to talk to me about his remarkable spiritual journey to the Ordinariate — the structure set up by Pope Benedict to allow former Anglicans to become Catholics, bringing with them some of their Anglican traditions — and about what he sees as its particular mission, to revive authentic, English spirituality in the Catholic Church.

In particular, we may note that there are three points at which the Kingdom teaching of the synoptic tradition tends to differ both from Judaism and from the early Church as represented by the remainder of the New Testament: in the use of the expression Kingdom of God for (1) the final act of God in visiting and redeeming his people and (2) as a comprehensive term for the blessings of salvation, i.e. things secured by that act of God, and (3) in speaking of the Kingdom as «coming».

All this means that the Church will often have conflicting understandings of what it means to live as God's people in a particular location or cultural setting.

And so too with the particular election of these baby boys, which, according to the Church's tradition, at least, was an election to heaven as the first martyrs for Christ.

An appreciation of the character of a voluntary institution as a vehicle of the life of the church and a willingness to learn how the particular congregation and denomination are organized for nurture and mission so that they may accept responsibility for making these institutions work to these ends.

And it should at once be noted also that as long as such a Church law is in existence, the character of its obligation, the possibility of being excused or dispensed from it, the possibility of discussing its expediency or the need to change it, the possibility of knowing oneself not bound by it in a particular concrete case etc., are of quite a different kind from any case in which an immutable divine commandment is involved.

I propose that in this particular issue, where the church has had a marvellous opportunity to project itself into the public sphere as an institution that can be trusted, and to proclaim in deed the gospel of justice and restoration, the church's actions have contradicted its gospel message.

This, however, does not mean that there can not be serious differences of theologi - cal opinion within the Church, nor that a Christian could never refuse to obey a certain particular order of a minister of the Church because his conscience considers it as incompatible with justice or charity, despite the minister's good faith.

There has, however, often been a tendency in the church to sanctify a particular phrase or title and to use that as a touchstone of orthodoxy.

The power to bind and loose, conferred on all the apostles jointly and to Peter in particular (Matthew 16:19) is seen in the Catechism of the Catholic Church as authority to absolve sins, to pronounce judgments on doctrine and to make decisions on Church discipline.

I judge that the greatest short circuit in the whole hookup of denominational and world church agitation for charitable mission lies in the failure to provide for the process of forming a convictional consensus on the part of church groups so that they own particular projects as their God - given task and opportunity.

It was viewed by many as a separate move of the Spirit due to its particular manifestations and wide impact, especially upon the UK protestant Church.

I don't mean to label or brand any particular church, but the Lutheran Church was and might still be very guilty of having this belief as their church, but the Lutheran Church was and might still be very guilty of having this belief as their Church was and might still be very guilty of having this belief as their credo.

It meant that «the light of the Holy Spirit, which is given in a particular way to the pastors of the church,» as Humanae vitae describes it, does not guarantee lack of error or replace human analysis.

What the church should hang on to is not particular programs and institutions but the conviction that, in the meeting of any special need, there is a legitimate place for ministry as a cooperating dimension of service.

The church, into which one is born (like the medieval Catholic Church), is distinguished by an ethic of conservation and compromise in its relationship with the surrounding society; the sect, which one must join as an adult (like the Anabaptists), rejects the surrounding society and has an ethic of rigor, perfection and transformation; the mystic is primarily a subjectively religious person who is not linked to any particular religious body (or, if linked to one, does not find it very imporchurch, into which one is born (like the medieval Catholic Church), is distinguished by an ethic of conservation and compromise in its relationship with the surrounding society; the sect, which one must join as an adult (like the Anabaptists), rejects the surrounding society and has an ethic of rigor, perfection and transformation; the mystic is primarily a subjectively religious person who is not linked to any particular religious body (or, if linked to one, does not find it very imporChurch), is distinguished by an ethic of conservation and compromise in its relationship with the surrounding society; the sect, which one must join as an adult (like the Anabaptists), rejects the surrounding society and has an ethic of rigor, perfection and transformation; the mystic is primarily a subjectively religious person who is not linked to any particular religious body (or, if linked to one, does not find it very important).

No matter that even in our own complex and secular day, when the old notion of «parish» as a particular area where people sleep and work has almost expired, the majority of people can still be ministered to by local churches for most of their lives if they are interested in the services of ministry.

As for saying that these other associations are ecclesial communities rather than churches in the full sense — as, for instance, the «particular churches» of Orthodoxy are churches — this should cause no hard feelingAs for saying that these other associations are ecclesial communities rather than churches in the full sense — as, for instance, the «particular churches» of Orthodoxy are churches — this should cause no hard feelingas, for instance, the «particular churches» of Orthodoxy are churches — this should cause no hard feelings.

The rationalization of southern baptists is truly mind boggling — the idea that each church is «autonomous» as justification for outright racism is pitiful in this day and age — if the Southern Baptist convention had come out strongly and adamantly against this kind of behavior, I'd have at least a measure of respect for them — but to shrug off a blatant act of discrimination as the «work of the devil» and ignore the deacon's cowardice in wanting to avoid «controversy» is laughable — if it weren't for people having the courage to fan the flames of controversy, women and african american would not have the right to vote today — more evidence of the ignorance of most bible thumpers, and Mississippi in particular

In light of that pivotal text, Volf understands the church as «a community of grace» which gathers in Christ's name in a particular locality.

This church has many buildings as part of their complex, and ironically, as I was sitting there in my car, looking through the barb wire, the angle was perfect to see the name of this particular building.

The church must be open to recognize some priority denunciations or renunciations as a necessary part of Christian decision in any particular world.

The use of MMA, in modern America in particular, as a missional tool to address the decline in male church attendance is, then, a marker of the times in which we live.

The first change, enacted by Christians without any intention of extinguishing or even compromising the Christian character of the college or university, consisted in muting all overt claims of the academic institution to be functioning as a limb of a particular church.

In particular, Ukrainian Catholics resent what they see as bullying and duplicity on the part of the Russian Orthodox Church, particularly the Moscow Patriarchate, topics frequently covered here at First Things.

Hut Keel says, «I'd hate to think JW could be imitated elsewhere,» since, as he sees it, churches need to be «environmentalists» — to take the temperature of their particular place and serve it accordingly.

The activity of the Church as a priesthood making intercession for all men, offering thanks and praise on behalf of all, now requires the minister's devoted leadership in a particular way.

In a sense it is these mores, these values and expressions of moral attitudes or what Toqueville called «the habits of the heart» which are at risk if the mass media in general, and television in particular, were to succeed in replacing the church as the place where the mores are generated and sustained.

The first thing they did whenever they wished to stop at a particular place, was to erect a tabernacle or temple to their false god for the duration of the time they expected to stay there, and they built this temple in the middle of the site on which they had established themselves, the ark being placed upon an altar such as is used in a church, for the idol wished to imitate our religion in many ways, as we shall afterwards show.10

The gradual unfolding of the Messianic secret, in particular, and Jesus» lack of immediate success in instructing his disciples as to the true nature of the Kingdom, have an inherent probability that is confirmed by the later history of the misinterpretation of his teaching in the New Testament Church.

Where a church has a particular link with the state or is «established», as is the case with the Church of England, this may be a cause of discriminchurch has a particular link with the state or is «established», as is the case with the Church of England, this may be a cause of discriminChurch of England, this may be a cause of discrimination.

If you ask why this particular collection of just these sixty - six books (or eighty, if you count the Apocrypha), and no others, form the unity which is the Bible, the only answer is that these have been handed down by the Church as its «Scriptures».

It might be the case on a particular issue, as the topic of women in the church is currently indicating, that traditionalists are the ones who have misinterpreted the Biblical posture.

Indulgences, where we do particular acts of devotion and charity as set by the Church, focus and personalise a little bit more these saving effects.

The Temptation, in particular, will renarrate Israel's experience as a pattern of the church's struggle in an alien environment called the wilderness.

Its object is not simply to understand the world but to respond to the power of God which is recreating it... Christian theology is prophetic only in so far as it dares, in full reflection, to declare how, at a particular place and time, God is at work, and thus to show the Church where and when to participate in his work.6

The Church has indeed recognized this particular body of writings as sacred and authoritative, not to be added to or subtracted from or tinkered with.