Sentences with word «ordination»

As for ordination of women, no less than 74 per cent of the Roman Catholic respondents (and 75 per cent of everybody) are in favor.

This more rigid position stems from a view of ordination in which teaching is the primary activity of the minister.

Thus the preacher need have no hesitation in doing what he or she was exhorted to do at ordination: apply himself or herself to the study of Scripture, so that the deepest reality of the abiding gospel may be grasped and conveyed through proclamation to the men and women to whom that proclamation is addressed.

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

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).

What a huge leap to imagine that an ancient purity code in Leviticus 18 bears upon consenting gays and lesbians in the 21st century and has anything to do with ordination.

This group also stood for ordination by bishops, but they did not feel that all other ministries were invalid unless so ordained.

A group addressing the diversity of views over female ordination in the new forms of Anglicanism, the Theological Task Force on Holy Orders for the Anglican Church in North America has entered its second phase.

The 1955 Assembly reversed this decision, perhaps because it was more scandalous not to allow ordination than to permit it.

If so, the model offers a good dose of reality, which makes ordination vows even more impressive.

In order to address these questions I advocated the theological notion of «partial identification» and «spiritual resistance» at the Second Roman Catholic Women's Ordination Conference in 1978.

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It could select its own pastors and set them aside through ordination for the task of preaching, counseling, and administering the two sacraments.

The enormous ocher - roofed ordination hall at Wat Kalayanamit grabs the eyes of virtually anyone who cruises past on the Chao Phraya River, even if nearby Wat Arun ends up getting most of the attention.

My formal training includes a BA in Elementary Education in the early 1970's, a Masters in Counseling from Southwestern College in Santa Fe, NM in 2009, and ministerial ordination from One Spirit Interfaith Seminary in New York City in 2012.

This led to a move from their home in the Midlands to Stanmore in north - west London, where Anne is continuing with her training for ordination into the Baptist Church.

22:32) we declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church's faithful.»

The nature and purpose of ordination does not define the nature and purpose of a theological school.

On reflection it should be evident that it makes little sense to take vows and seek ordination in a religious order unless one is committed to support and serve the hierarchical Church.

Bert must protest against «the social injustices and sinful exclusions perpetrated by a patriarchal church that refuses to consider ordination of women and marriage for same - sex couples.»

He reasoned that, even though the church allows such ordinations, God does not.

While there, I became Buddhist and took ordination as a Tibetan Buddhist nun in 2002.

No brainer: Guess what they're working on a sequel for... Not a surprise: Tanzania to oppose ordination of women and gay bishops in Anglican church.

His father relented in his opposition to this radical vocational change, and Luther prospered in the structural rhythm of monastic and academic life as he received his master's degree and moved toward ordination as a priest.

The young woman who was discouraged by her professors from pursuing ordination because of her gender, but who did it anyway.

The strict complementarian position of Cedarville University raises questions about ordination and the nature of the church.

Heyward was one of eleven women whose ordination in 1974 paved the way for the recognition of women priests in the Episcopal Church.

The exclusion of women from being theological classmates with men, except perhaps in religious education, has been a powerful factor in accounting for male reluctance to support ordination and deployment of women as priests, and power - sharing with them as clergy colleagues.

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.

During Barros's ordination Mass, Chilean Catholics stormed the Osorno cathedral.

So she dismisses the argument, which she says she hears advocates of gay ordination making, that people can not be expected to resist their hard - wired sexual desires.

«I have known him since ordination,» Smith said.

In her marvelous book Pastrix, Nadia Bolz - Weber writes about preaching from this passage to a group of Luthern pastors at an event honoring those gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender clergy that had previously been denied ordination in the ELCA because of their sexuality.

That hint of strangeness surrounds popular understanding of the rites of the church, including ordination.

Catholics regard ordination as one of the seven sacraments and it is held to impart an indelible character.

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.

Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, Harvard Divinity School feminist, declared, «Ordination means subordination [to] an elite, male - dominated, sacred, pyramidal order of domination.»

This is not exactly news — female ordination among churches of the Lutheran World Federation has been a perennial strain on ecumenical relations with the Orthodox (and Roman Catholics for that matter) for some time.

The reluctance of many churches and church bodies to accept ordination of women is a case in point.

Only 22 per cent of the professors favor ordination of known practicing homosexuals.

It was a traditional ordination at St. Jerome Parish Saturday for a man with a non-traditional path to priesthood.