Sentences with phrase «ordination into»

[Leviticus 21:16 - 17]-- This passage sets limits for ordination into the priesthood.

Austen brings the two «vocations» of marriage and ordination into direct connection.

All this in preparation for ordination into the ministry.

Not exact matches

Evangelical Catholicism understands the priesthood in iconic terms: The Catholic priest is a man whose ordination makes him into a living re-presentation of the Lord Jesus.

Upon graduation from seminary, I choose not to enter into the institutional church nor to pursue ordination within the Baptist tradition.

This inevitably leads into the first point, that ordination of deaconesses would not threaten ordination to the priesthood.

Now, if we be allowed an imaginative look into the future, such communities might in certain circumstances choose an «elder» (presbyter) from their midst who would then become their priestly president through sacramental ordination by the bishop.

Here are a few of those affirmations: all baptized Christians have Spirit - granted charismata assigned to them; offices are a particular type of charismata; there is no ontological difference between officeholders and other members of the congregations; the priesthood of all believers does not divide a congregation into distinct groups (laity and clergy); ordination is a public attestation to the presence of the particular charismata by the whole congregation; ordination is not necessarily an irrevocable appointment to a lifelong task.

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.

The man behind an independent report into the controversy surrounding the appointment of the Bishop of Sheffield has said he sees no reason why traditionalists who don't agree with the ordination of women can't become diocesan bishops.

As an added bonus, a sheet was folded and stuffed into the back of this codex which gave detailed minutes of a church business meeting which included the ordination service of Titus» successor as senior pastor of Crete after God called Titus to a larger church nearby.

ANY AND ALL priest who were involved in the moving around, ordination, cover up, etc of anyone found to be molester should be forced into retirement by the Vatican.

Advocates of women's suffrage and women's ordination fall into this camp, as do Beverly Wildung Harrison (in some of her work), Shulamith Firestone and others who argue not just for the transcendence of gender roles but for technological and social means of neutralizing sexual difference.

A passage from some theological work for translation into the vernacular ought to be a compulsory paper in every Ordination examination.»

The qualifications for entry into the presbyterate do not come out in the Tradition, except that a confessor 51 who physically suffered in his witness to the faith in persecution is ranked as a presbyter or deacon by a kind of ordination in blood and in the Spirit without the laying on of hands (cheirotonia.)

The city episcopate is well on the way to monopolizing the rite of the imposition: of hands in ordination, a practice once associated with both pagan teachers and Jewish elders and rabbis and by now projected into apostolic times as the unique function of the apostles qua bishops.

Rejecting, therefore, the Roman Catholic sacrament of ordination as an induction into the status and order of the priesthood, he insisted that no one should be ordained to the ministry unless he had a call from a congregation.