Sentences with phrase «oppose ordination»

For example, Elisabeth Elliot's claim that «the pronouns referring to him [God] in Scripture are withoutexception masculine» (Elliot, «Why I Oppose the Ordination of Women,» p. 16, emphasis added).

Elisabeth Elliot, «Why I Oppose the Ordination of Women,» Christianity Today 19 (June 6, 1975): 14.

In line with the tradition, he defended clerical celibacy, ruled out contraception, and firmly opposed the ordination of women.

Conservative factions in the Anglican Communion, a 77 million - member denomination worldwide that includes the Episcopal Church, have opposed the ordination of gay bishops.

Not exact matches

(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.

To be free of ideological captivity is to «join the community of struggle,» to oppose racism and sexism, to fight for human rights and women's ordination, to engage in social action, to envision «holiness as justice,» and to develop nonsexist language and imagery in order to «empower» and free the congregation to engage in the «struggle for liberation.»

Questions have been asked about the consistency of The Rev. Vosper in regard to her public statements as opposed to her public professions of faith and belief at the time of her ordination and every single time she was covenanted into a new pastoral relationship, including in 1997 with her current congregation.

It can, then, seem easiest and most charitable for those of us who oppose women's ordination to keep our opinions to ourselves.

A friend who is a priest explained to me that he does not openly oppose women's ordination because he knows several nuns who «suffer greatly» because they can not be priests.