Sentences with phrase «on ordination»

A lesson on the ordination of women, Including a sorting activity with arguments associated with the Catholic church and the Church of England, use of images to discuss Jesus» relationship with women and important women in the Bible (Eve and Mary) and finally links to news reports on Women Bishops.

On the one hand he seems to say that the position of Anglicans and Lutherans on the ordination of women has doomed the ecumenical movement to failure.

Conservative Judaism, in contrast, opted to remove all religious distinctions between the sexes, including the elimination of the barrier separating men's and women's sections in the synagogue and the stricture on the ordination of women as rabbis.

A blocking amendment to this effect should be put down in both Houses whenever a Draft Bishops (Ordination of Women) Measure comes before Parliament, and should be supported by all Christian parliamentarians, whatever their views on the ordination of women per se.

One hopes that there were at Arlington also many other women who, although deeply disappointed by the Church's decision on ordination, know that Jackie Hawkins had it right.

Ever since the 1980 General Conference declined to take a definitive position on the ordination and appointment of «self - avowed practicing homosexuals,» the 1984 General Conference, which met last spring in Baltimore, was targeted by several groups within the church to accomplish just that purpose.

Do policies on ordination lend credibility to feminists» charges of an inherent sexism in the church?

The salient point for our discussion on ordination is that a man is not an intrinsically more accurate sign of the Trinity than a woman.

The 55 - 45 percent margin removing the prohibition on ordination amended the church's constitution, but it did not resolve the issue.

The 2010 - 2011 vote on the status of gay and lesbian persons in the ministries of the church was the fifth vote on ordination standards in the last fifteen years.

We forever have our thumb on the channel - change button of ultimate moral - religious truth just in case we might have to change our minds, just as we did in 1890 on plural marriage and 1978 on ordination of black members....

While the poll shows support for Francis» statement on social issues, American Catholics appear to disagree with the pope on the ordination of female priests.

Stirred by the steady stream of feminist literature which has caused a revolution in Western society, and prodded by the more liberal wing of the church which opened up the discussion on the ordination of women twenty or more years ago, contemporary evangelicals have become increasingly interested in reevaluating the role of women.

Why does a bishop speak on the ordination of women only after retirement?

Presbyterian Church (USA) allows local option on ordination of partnered gay people.

The Church specifically doesn't use this as a proof - text on ordination.

Not exact matches

I interviewed him on the Feast of the Assumption, during a parish party celebrating the first traditional ordination in Nigeria in over forty years, which I wrote about elsewhere.

Other Facts: Is a conservative, considered the driving force behind crackdowns on liberation theology, religious pluralism, challenges to traditional moral teachings on issues such as homosexuality, and dissent on issues such as women's ordination, according to CNN's John Allen in «Who is Pope Benedict XVI.»

Ma, whose ordination had been supported by both Beijing and the Vatican, made the announcement during his ordination ceremony on Saturday in the St. Ignatius Cathedral in Shanghai.

The question of women's ordination is regarded as church - dividing, at least from the Orthodox angle... Consequently I think we on the Lutheran side have to think about whether progress in dialogue is to be expected at all.»

After the ordination of eight of our brothers, there are over fifty of us studying for the priesthood or preparing to live life as a consecrated brother, about to be joined by fifteen more on July 25.

He is also frustrated with the church's is left wing, which he thinks has been engrossed in personal issues such as the ordination of gays and lesbians, and has abandoned its former emphasis on economic issues.

Similarly, while Braaten welcomed the ordination of women, he stood adamantly against feminist theology, particularly the insistence on eliminating all masculine references to God.

Huang Bingzhang was ordained as Bishop of the Diocese of Shantou in southeast China on Thursday, the Vatican said, although Rome had asked him «on numerous occasions not to accept episcopal ordination.»

Rogue ordinations of priests and consecrations of bishops are nothing new in Christian history, but with the breakaways to the Old Catholic Church following Vatican Council I in the nineteenth century, the phenomenon of episcopi vagantes (bishops on the loose) became a pronounced feature of an underworld of apostate Catholics and sectarian Anglicans.

Her reflections on the priesthood and the Christian life are frequently affecting, and she obviously has little sympathy for the Women?s Ordination Conference, the National Catholic Reporter, and others in the U.S. who have tried to use her peculiar circumstance in promoting the ordinationOrdination Conference, the National Catholic Reporter, and others in the U.S. who have tried to use her peculiar circumstance in promoting the ordinationordination of women.

Chapters are uneven: Chapter 13 on liturgy is only two and a half pages long and that includes the footnotes; the following chapter on the Sacrament of Ordination is some 50 pages long and has no less than four separate summaries.

Faber had cherished a devotion to St Philip Neri, the original Oratorian, ever since his ordination as an Anglican on St Philip's feast day.

Starting backwards with Coll's fourth point, that it is what deacons and deaconesses are rather than what they do that is significant for the Church, Coll explains that on the issue of ordination generally, the «ontological» versus «functional» debate continues (p207).

That summer, Father Pell was heading for doctoral studies in history at Oxford after ordination in Rome from the Pontifical Urban University (horsemeat was a staple on the menu in his day).

In fact, for nearly forty years the traditional elements in the Church of England have delayed progress on unity and the ordination of women and other matters.

A top contender to head the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops rejected allegations he allowed the ordination of a priest who went on to abuse children.

I would conclude, then, that by changing my attitudes on several deeply ingrained matters (such as contraception and women's ordination), I have uncovered a remarkably unthreatening attitude toward the changeable and unchangeable in the church in general.

If one really believes in justification by faith alone, differences over other matters — the real presence in the Eucharist, apostolic ministry, the indissolubility of marriage, the ordination of women, and on and on — make no difference.

A Myriad of future events would have been prearranged by God on the basis of his prescience of contingent choices — what McCabe called «subsequent ordination» (DN 81).

The Guardian: Female bishops: EU anti-discrimination law may be the CoE's salvation While the Church of England's legalism has halted progress on equality issues by voting against the ordination of female bishops this week, EU anti-discrimination law may prove its salvation.

It affirmed that the ministry is a gift of God through Christ to his church, and is essential to the being and well - being of the church, that men gifted for the work of the ministry, called by the Spirit and accepted by the church, are commissioned through an act of ordination by prayer and the laying on of hands.

The first finding appears to exclude women on the grounds that deaconesses were not admitted to the same office as deacons, and the second finding names the problem the ordination of women as deacons would pose for understanding the unity of the sacrament.

What could it mean for the struggle over sexual orientation and ordination that is going on in all of our denominations if we began, not from some culturally inherited moral code, but from the thought - filled recognition of our discipleship of the compassionate Christ?

Moreover, I argued on theological grounds that women should demand ordination as bishops rather than just as deacons and priests.

They have been at a church for a very long time, they have served, and yet not once has their priest tapped on the shoulder to say, «Have you thought of ordination?»

Edessa and the countries round about it which were on all sides of it, and Zoba (Nisibis) and Arabia, and all the north, and the regions round about it, and the south and all the regions on the borders of Mesopotamia, received apostles» ordination to the priesthood from Addaeus the apostle, one of the seventy - two apostles.

(a) that bishops can bestow ordination for the diaconate only on married men, and it is implicit, following 1 Timothy 3:1 - 5, that bishops should be married; (b) that those who voluntarily choose not to marry, must live in a monastry in purity and continence; (c) that a bishop can not oppose the wish of an unmarried priest to marry, or if a priest is widowed, to marry again.

A council should be opened whose concerns would no longer be interecclesial — dealing with priests, bishops, women's ordination and so forth — but would center on far more essential problems.

David Hubbard, for example, in his taped remarks on the future of evangelicalism to a colloquium at Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary in Denver in 1977 noted the following areas of tension among evangelicals: women's ordination, the charismatic movement, ecumenical relations, social ethics, strategies of evangelism, Biblical criticism, Biblical infallibility, contextual theology in non-Western cultures, and the churchly applications of the behavioral sciences.2 If such a list is more exhaustive than those topics which this book has pursued, it nevertheless makes it clear that the foci of the preceding chapters have at least been representative.

Speaking to Premier Christianity, Rt Rev Mark Tanner, the Bishop of Berwick in Northumberland, called on those considering ordination to think about being trained in cities such as Durham, Liverpool and Leeds.

While everyone is eagerly awaiting the Mansfield ball, Edmund has his mind on other things, being «deeply occupied in the consideration of the two important events now at hand, which were to fix his fate in life — ordination and matrimony.»

Well, our delegation had a hang - up on that subject which the institute touched off despite the fact that Schuller is reputedly fighting for the ordination of women in his own denomination.)

The health of Mansfield, of England, depends on which path is chosen, on whether the next generation chooses to be «actors» or to accept «ordination.»

Earlier this year, Francis emphatically closed the door on women's ordination, telling an audience that the «door is closed» to that possibility.