Sentences with phrase «place in church teaching»

In has no precedent or place in Church teaching.

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The Eastern Orthodox Church, for example and certainly not exclusively, endorses the teachings of pioneering Christian monastics known as the Desert Fathers, who placed great emphasis on living in continual «remembrance of death.»

In our time and place the media will almost always be on the side of those who claim conscientious freedom; they will seldom be able to understand sympathetically a church's need for a magisterial voice to articulate and sustain its public teaching.

Fellowship among believers is important, but there is no place in the Bible that teaches or defends the modern practice of «church.»

This book, in my opinion, is to actually minimize the great apostasy taking place in our churches; especially among those who were never taught the real meaning of being «last instead of first», to help those who come into the church who may bring with them societal norms of entitlement and «whats in it for me» attitudes and behaviors.

However, how does corporate worship (which is encouraged in Hebrews 10:19 - 25 among other places) and meeting and teaching take place if not in «the church»?

In Dear James, the catalyst is not only the teachings of the Church but its sacred places as well.

From that unassailable platform, in the name of steering the Church to a place where its teaching would be «relevant,» Curran was able to lead theologians across the United States in their definitive Statement of Dissent from Paul Vl's encyclical Humanae Vitae in the following summer of 1968.

To look upon those prayer wheels not (as some of us were taught) as instruments of «vain repetition,» but as outward and visible signs of the intention to pray without ceasing, can perhaps lead iconoclasts to more compassionate reflection on the sacramental impulse and on the place of objects — statues and stained glass and candles and altar cloths, beads, bouquets, and kneeling cushions in needlepoint stitched by some faithful woman as her own act of participation in the prayers of the church.

He said that the majority of the people in his congregation did not come from a Presbyterian background, but were drawn to the church because it is a place where the Word is being taught and where the people genuinely care for one another.

To say that «the Church teaches» is equally without force, for the man of intelligence knows, in the first place, that there are a great many churches and that some of their teaching is contradictory.

Maybe you have not been in places where this has been abused in this way, but it is a fairly prevalent teaching in a growing percentage of churches.

At Vox Nova, Kelly Wilson has published an extended examination of the dilemma posed to those who find themselves struggling with Church teaching, whether because they authentically lack conviction or understanding or deal doubt from a more cynical place, as in the case of ideologically - driven op - ed columnists.

I wrote about this back in the chapter on cancelling the church service, but what if the teaching time took place in the busses and vans while a church was driving to a place of ministry, and then continued afterwards, when returning?

McCormick discusses areas in which his thoughts have shifted: The nature of the church; the church as the people of God; the church as servant; the church as collegial; the church as ecumenical; the ecclesiological nature of the church; importance of lay witness; the teaching competence of the episcopal and papal branch; the church and moral truth; the place of dissent; birth regulation; ecclesial honesty; the dynamic nature of faith.

He took a long look at the room of would - be pastors and ministerial leaders, each of us zealous to earn our future roles in churches, ministries and on the mission field and delivered his first teaching point: «The wrong person at the wrong place at the wrong time always results in the wrong thing happening.»

So many people today want the Church to change teachings that have been in place for a couple of millenia!!

The grounds on which church authorities resisted the advancing claims of the sciences were in the first place simply that they were at variance with the accepted teachings handed down from ancient times.

The enthusiastic response of the audience really struck me as out - of - place in a church that claims to teach the Gospel of Jesus.

(1) What can the churches do to teach people loyalty to humanity with a degree of intensity which places that loyalty superior to loyalty to the nation state, the national economic system, the ethnic «in - group»?

In other situations, however, there may be a real place for women in the preaching and teaching ministry of the churcIn other situations, however, there may be a real place for women in the preaching and teaching ministry of the churcin the preaching and teaching ministry of the church.

This is not the place to show that this concept of freedom either exists explicitly in the creed of the Church or is implied by the teaching of Christianity, that free faith justifies, that salvation must be received from God in freedom and that the eternity of salvation is not an indefinite continuation of time but must be understood as the final result of history itself which is produced by freedom.

Any pattern of thought that in any way abstracts God «himself» from this person, from his death or his career or his birth or his family or his Jewishness or his maleness or his teaching or the particular intercession and rule he as risen now exercises, has, according to Nicea, no place in the church.

This line of separation has become less acute than it was fifty years ago when the famous Dayton trial over the right to teach evolution in the public schools took place, and in the same year of 1925 Harry Emerson Fosdick had to leave the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church of New York City because of his theological views.

But if someone believes that he can not and should not accept the authority of the Gospel, of Scripture and of the teaching office of the Church he can not consider himself a Catholic, he can not be a partner in the dialogue that takes place within the Church and which presupposes the acceptance of her teaching office in as far as it claims to have authority.

The Catholic World Report asked Cardinal Burke how important he thought it was that Pope Francis should «make a statement soon in order to address the growing sense — among many in the media and in the pews — that the Church is on the cusp of changing her teaching on various essential points regarding marriage, «remarriage», reception of Communion, and even the place of «unions» among homosexuals».

To teach, as some writers have, that we must accept the «insight» of modern Evolutionists, as true beyond reasonable doubt, that humans came into existence in various places at differing times (so - called «Polyphyletism») is to compromise the Church's infallible teaching that there was one first man (Adam) and one first woman (Eve) from whom we all descend.

On numerous occassions Paul uses the imagery of a body to teach us what the Church should look like, such as in Ephesians 1:22 - 23: «And God placed all things under His feet and appointed Him to be head over everything for the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills everything in every way.&Church should look like, such as in Ephesians 1:22 - 23: «And God placed all things under His feet and appointed Him to be head over everything for the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills everything in every way.&church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills everything in every way.»

Instead of teaching their own positive convictions, which can help overcome a dehumanizing orthodoxy and so transform the life of the church, these schools seem to think that they will transform society and church by offering this or that course in urban studies, by relocating the setting of education to the places «where people live,» and by increased field experiences.

My background is very fundamental... and the churches I have spent my life in teaching and preaching are very toxic places.

Paul could safely assume that such teaching was given in churches outside his own sphere of influence, as appears from a place in his letter to the Christians of Rome a city which he had not yet visited.

Generis: «For these reasons the Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions, on the part of men experienced in both fields, take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter - for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God» [italics added].

Now even in very high places in the Church it seems that some of us are no longer sure that Catholic teaching on marriage is really a compassionate teaching.

Nevertheless, both are devoted to the personal vocation of man, though under different titles... [Yet] at all times and in all places, the Church should have the true freedom to teach the faith, to proclaim its teaching about society, to carry out its task among men without hindrance, and to pass moral judgment even in matters relating to politics whenever the fundamental rights of man or the salvation of souls requires it» (Gaudium et Spes, 76).

In the earlier part of the twentieth century the link between Church and State in England meant that there was a clear place for the social teachings and activities of the ChurcIn the earlier part of the twentieth century the link between Church and State in England meant that there was a clear place for the social teachings and activities of the Churcin England meant that there was a clear place for the social teachings and activities of the Church.

I'm sorry about that, but I can't get over the idea that, if priests and bishops had been faithful to the teaching of the Church and their sacred vows, there would have been no scandal in the first place.

It happens in communities — families, churches, schools, work places — that teach and embody values.

He was interpreted in ways which partly obscured him — as all interpretations must — but the most authentic records of his teachings, life, death, and resurrection were preserved and honored, and he was given chief place in the Church which was declared to be his body.

We have found that since being out of the church system, we depend on God more and enjoy meaningful fellowship with others more than we did when it was at a set place on a set time frame with only a few select people in charge and doing all the teaching.

In this case, that mastery too often turns Father X into a kind of ringmaster whose verbal antics, presumably intended to make the Mass more user - friendly, are a distraction from that toward which the Church's worship aims, according to the teaching of the Second Vatican Council: «The liturgy daily builds up those who are in the Church, making of them a holy temple of the Lord, a dwelling - place for God in the Spirit, to the mature measure of the fullness of Christ» (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, 2In this case, that mastery too often turns Father X into a kind of ringmaster whose verbal antics, presumably intended to make the Mass more user - friendly, are a distraction from that toward which the Church's worship aims, according to the teaching of the Second Vatican Council: «The liturgy daily builds up those who are in the Church, making of them a holy temple of the Lord, a dwelling - place for God in the Spirit, to the mature measure of the fullness of Christ» (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, 2in the Church, making of them a holy temple of the Lord, a dwelling - place for God in the Spirit, to the mature measure of the fullness of Christ» (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, 2in the Spirit, to the mature measure of the fullness of Christ» (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, 2).

Given that the Church places no moral obligation on couples to have as many children as they possibly can, the insinuation contained in this statement is a crude caricature of Catholic teaching.

We also left the traditional church and looked for a different kind of relationship with God in many places, before we re-discovered this new vision of Christianity taught by Father Thomas Keating and Ken Wilber.

Pope Pius XII declared that «the teaching authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions... take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter --[but] the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God» (Pius XII, Humani Generis 36)»

Churches would assume the major responsibility for this if they adopted Hough and Cobb's proposal that, following graduation from theological school, students be placed in «teaching congregations» for one year as «probationary ordinands.»

The theological school is a place where young men are taught to understand the world of God in which the Church operates and the operations of the Church in that world, but it is clear that they can not be taught unless those who teach them as well as they themselves are constantly in quest of such understanding.

No place in the teaching of Jesus or the New Testament refers to the church as a place.

This week, allegations were made against Andy Savage, the megachurch teaching pastor at Highpoint Church in Memphis, regarding an event that took place 20 years ago when Savage was serving as a youth pastor in Texas.

«Our tour guide was a Galilean who spoke Aramaic and at one point, we were in a place called the [Church of the] Pater Noster, where people think Jesus taught [The Lord's Prayer].

My relationship with God a that time was intimate and highly fulfilling, (though quite at odds with what was taught at the churches I attended then), not something I can say of the years after that... but living in economic security I had never been in a place where my kitchen pantry was empty.

But this is the opposite of the movement presented in the Epistles, in which the Holy Spirit gives to the church people who have the gifts of love or of the word or teaching, and the church has to find a place for them even if it had not anticipated doing so.