Sentences with phrase «particular kind of church»

Some of my Episcopal friends tell me that episcopacy is not a name for a particular kind of church constitution (as Presbyterians might suppose), but rather an understanding of representative authority and responsibility in ministry vested in a college of «sacramental persons» — an understanding compatible with a wide range of constitutional theories and structures.

Not exact matches

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.

Our graduate students and newest faculty increasingly have fields and specialties — services to sell — but not vocations to make a particular kind of difference in the church or the world.

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

I mean by «the Christian church» a particular type of community, a distinctive kind of human fellowship, an easily recognizable spiritual movement within our total historical life.

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Similarly, in some of the major jurisdictions of the Christian church, clergy are identified by particular kinds of dress or vestment.

For Catholics, in particular, it is so profound a reality that we see it incarnate in marriage, which is a sacrament re-presenting the union between Christ and the Church, and even in our clergy who are considered to be joined in a kind of spiritual matrimony to the Church, which, in turn, is considered to be our «Holy Mother» and the Bride of Christ.