Sentences with phrase «particular roles of church»

A further element in this new conception of reception, and an inheritance from the classical model of reception, is that it understands the agents of this comprehensive process to include all of the members of the Church, while specifying g the particular roles of Church leaders, of the whole body of the faithful, and of theologians.

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Their function will lie not in the area of church - sponsored pastoral counseling programs, but rather in serving a particular professional role in a community mental health program.

The Church, and the papacy in particular, has broken with the «Constantinian» model of power in order to become, in accord with the vision of the Second Vatican Council, the «teacher and evangelist of culture,» a role that retrieves and renews the New Testament task of Peter to «strengthen the brethren.»

In particular, there are two ways in which churches can serve to expand on the more traditional roles of mediator or advocate.

Yet what excited or gripped those of us who occupy or occupied those positions was not initially the call to a particular role, to a professional call, but to participate in God's work in and through both church and world.

Wealth and Democracy raises two particular concerns for these audiences, the first (explicitly) regarding the health of the democratic experience itself, the second (by extension) related to the role of the church in this democracy.

(64) The church's prophetic role has to be appropriate both to its vision of creation and redemption and to the particular way in which its society is structured.

Rather it is a reconnaissance — perhaps too a renaissance — a rediscovery of» the role of the church in society with a particular and urgent emphasis on the cure of souls.

This claim is frequently presented, whether implicitly or explicitly, as a correlative to the idea that Christianity often as personified by Jesus or less frequently by Paul - was «goad» for women, paid them particular attention, or at least offered them opportunities not otherwise available, to caricature, the ideal of «the Feminist Jesus».60 In an admirable and scholarly article Leonard Swidler has marshaled historical evidences to show convincingly that Jesus was a Feminist.61 The politics of such a view is self - evident, for much study of the subject has developed within a context where women were struggling to establish a proper role for themselves within the contemporary church; to this end they have sought an egalitarian past to act as model for present polity.62

Consequently, it is the role of every particular church's theologians, pastors, and educators to reflect upon this tradition and remind the wider church of its importance.

Instead of being guided only by the needs of a particular oppressed group a liberationist may seek to help the church as a whole find the appropriate response to the recognition of its role in that oppression.

As Newman is always being quoted as a vindicator of the human conscience, it is instructive to see how he viewed the episcopal authority which was placed over him when he was a member of the Church of England and in particular with reference to the government's role in the question of the Irish episcopacy and the foundation of a bishopric in Jerusalem.