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.
Not exact matches
In 1962, the Vatican released the Crimen Sollicitationis which outlines how the Church is to handle accusations of s3xual impropriety against clergy which took place in the confessiona
In 1962, the Vatican released the Crimen Sollicitationis
which outlines how the
Church is to handle accusations of s3xual impropriety against clergy
which took
place in the confessiona
in the confessional.
The wife submits to her husband, as
in the first part of Paul's dictum
in Ephesians5, and the husband fulfills the second part of Paul's injunction by laying down his life for his wife as Christ did for his
Church (
which might have been what Paul had
in mind
in the first
place).
Despite the sinfulness of its people, the
Church is always the privileged
place of encounter with the living God, who continually forms his people into the community
in which the full truth about humanity is grasped.
For Wells, the pervasive moral stupor characteristic of late - twentieth - century North American culture, to
which much social criticism
in recent years has been directed, demands a response from the
Church before any thoroughgoing moral reconstruction of civil society can take
place.
However, I do wish the curators had done the right thing and chosen not to include the cross,
which could easily have been
placed outside one of the countless Christian
churches in that neighborhood.
After March 4, 2013, an International Arrest Warrant will be issued against these Defendants.The guilty verdict followed nearly a month of deliberations by more than thirty sworn Citizen Jurors of the 150 case exhibits produced by Court Prosecutors, The Court's judgement declares the wealth and property of the
churches responsible for the Canadian genocide to be forfeited and
placed under public ownership, as reparations for the families of the more than 50,000 children who died
in the residential schools.To enforce its sentence, the Court has empowered citizens
in Canada, the United States, England, Italy and a dozen other nations to act as its legal agents armed with warrants, and peacefully occupy and seize properties of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United
Church of Canada,
which are the main agents
in the deaths of these children
In just about all my career, the historic churches have been in decline, their place being taken by «evangelical» churches which seem like nothing more than Tea Partiers at praye
In just about all my career, the historic
churches have been
in decline, their place being taken by «evangelical» churches which seem like nothing more than Tea Partiers at praye
in decline, their
place being taken by «evangelical»
churches which seem like nothing more than Tea Partiers at prayer.
Second, women pastors may be more effective
in dealing with the feminization of the local
church which has taken
place increasingly, and
which troubles many mainline congregations.
It also
places it
in continuity with the experiences of the early
church, and within the continuing narrative of the development of Christian thought — as people have struggled to make sense of and articulate their lived experience of God —
which produced the great ecumenical creeds (with their clear progression of understanding about God, Christ and the Holy Spirit)- and
which continues on today.
Now I have reported before that Dallas, Texas is the mega
church capital of the world,
which means that there are more mega
churches per capita than anywhere else
in the world, but interestingly, Dallas only came
in fourth
place for mega
church attendance by percentage of people who attend
church.
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 Ephesians we are presented with a stark reminder of the early church's understanding of the power of the risen Christ, who was placed by God «far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to com
In Ephesians we are presented with a stark reminder of the early
church's understanding of the power of the risen Christ, who was
placed by God «far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only
in this age but also in that which is to com
in this age but also
in that which is to com
in that
which is to come.
Drew Hart is the author of Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the
Church Views Racism,
which released
in January and
which tackles police brutality, mass incarceration, antiblack stereotypes, poverty, and everyday acts of racism by
placing them
in the larger framework of white supremacy.
It maintains cordial relations and some measure of cooperation with the Lutheran
Church - Missouri Synod,
which nobody would
place in the mainline....
I was rather surprised to find myself quoted
in the recent issue of FIRST THINGS as claiming, «Any
church excluding Christians at a given
place is not merely a bad
church, but rather is not
church at all, since a Eucharist to
which not all the Christians at a given
place might gather would not be merely a morally deficient Eucharist, but rather no Eucharist at all.»
The context of Matthew 24 and 25 is the tribulation period
which will take
place after the
church is taken up
in the rapture.
There is the ongoing problem of biased representation
in the media, with plenty of space given to the atheistic opinions of Hawking and Dawkins, and little if any coverage given to the promotion and integration of science
which takes
place within the context of the
Church.
Denhollander specifically brought up Morales
in her interview,
in which she accused
churches of being quick to condemn sexual abuse when it takes
place outside their walls, but defensive when such accusations threaten their own organizations.
Most
churches retain the belief
in the Second Coming — the
Church of England Communion service includes the words, «Christ will come again»,
which everyone is expected to say — yet there is no great expectation that the second coming is about to take
place.
Mathison might say that by such a refusal, I am
placing myself as an individual above and against the Holy Spirit - guided consensus of the rest of the
church,
which therefore
places me
in the category of «heretic.»
From
which I infer that the fullest flourishing of women and men takes
place in churches and families that have this masculine feel.»
In keeping with its medieval inspiration (and indeed with Gravissimum Educationis) Chavagnes
places the liturgical life -
which is at the heart of the
Church - at the very heart of its own life as a College.
This means that the «revelation of the mystery hidden from endless ages»
which had taken
place in the Incarnation of Christ continues to occur through the «deeds and words» of the
Church.
Cardinal Newman said there were three authorities
in the
Church: the authority of tradition, the authority of reason and the authority of experience,
which he
placed respectively
in the hierarchy, the university and the body of the faithful.
Just as the Virgin Birth, and the physical Resurrection of Christ are and were requirements of his literal Divinity and uniqueness upon the human scene, so also this type of development to
which we appeal can not take
place, except
in a
Church which claims the infallible magisterium on earth of the same Jesus
in the name of his Divinity, and can manifest a line of consistent and coherent, definition because she has done so.
By the early - to - mid 4th century, the Western Christian
Church had
placed Christmas on December 25, [17] a date later adopted
in the East, [18][19] although some
churches celebrate on the December 25 of the older Julian calendar,
which corresponds to January
in the modern - day Gregorian calendar.
In this emergent electronic era, the most advanced and powerful communication now takes
place through media
which the
church as the interpreter of the revelation of God has not mastered.
When I go through David Kinnaman's research,
which reflects just about every concern I express
in my «15 Reasons» posts --(young people are leaving the
church because they believe it is too exclusive, too combative with science, hyper - political, out - of - touch when it comes to sexuality, and an unsafe
place in which to wrestle with doubt)-- I am often met with blank stares.
«
In a culture which is increasingly on - line it is the one place in the world which has an international reputation, academic depth and close partnerships with various churches and Christian organisations.&raqu
In a culture
which is increasingly on - line it is the one
place in the world which has an international reputation, academic depth and close partnerships with various churches and Christian organisations.&raqu
in the world
which has an international reputation, academic depth and close partnerships with various
churches and Christian organisations.»
Since Jesus Christ founded the Catholic
Church and
placed good men
in charge of it, and because it was the Catholic
Church which put the Books of the Bible
in the Bible and coined the word «Bible», and because the Bible tells us that the
Church is the pillar and foundation of Truth, and because these good men [that you refer to as misguided] are the ones ordained and «sent», [just like Jesus was «sent» by the Father], are at the «helm» of His
Church and have the absolute authority to interpret the Bible, I am so inclined to be ever so thankful that Jesus Christ set it all up this way so that the burdens and crosses that I may bear will become as light as the yoke that Jesus Christ promised if we are willing to follow him, and not our will be done but His.
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.
The basic liturgy of liberalism is the Festival of Reason,
which in 1793
placed a Goddess of Reason (who may or may not have been a prostitute conscripted for the occasion,
in one of the mocking double entendres of Providence) on the holy altar
in the
Church of Our Lady
in Paris.
Once the shock wore off though, I realized that money abuses and issues, while endemic within
churches, still only account for a portion of the many ways
in which churches have wounded people and thus there is undoubtedly plenty of people
in search of a safe
place who do not have any of the same issues that I have with linking money and spirituality, so really you were only excluding a certain portion of people from safety by attaching a price tag to it, those for whom money issues are a sticking point and of course those who simply don't have the extra funds to commit.
Billy Graham comment on the Gay issue
in support of Chic - Fil - A president's comment...
which I agree with but did not, or has not commented on the Baptist
Church denying a black Straight couple a chance to get married in the place they called their c
Church denying a black Straight couple a chance to get married
in the
place they called their
churchchurch?
In many
places,
church control was an incubus
which the college was attempting to throw off, or
which it endured merely because the charter made remedial action difficult.
Though many quarters within the
churches are only beginning to catch on, the structures, assumptions of patriarchy and rote responses have long ago fallen away - of necessity -
in secular life, and I write this as a post-Christian-christian, a post-Anglican-anglican,
which can be a pretty raw and challenging if interesting
place to be at times.
Arguably, Fellowes has actually missed a dramatic trick, given that
church was a great social leveller,
which would have
placed the earl himself and his lowliest servant
in the same congregation (albeit
in segregated areas).
Before Dallas: The U.S. Bishops» Response to Clergy Sexual Abuse of Children by Nicholas P. Cafardi Paulist, 255 pages, $ 27.95
In a 1979 allocution, John Paul II declared that «the task of the Church and her historic merit, which is to proclaim and defend in every place and in..
In a 1979 allocution, John Paul II declared that «the task of the
Church and her historic merit,
which is to proclaim and defend
in every place and in..
in every
place and
in..
in....
Will the Korean
churches be willing to
place their financial resources
in a common pool to
which all may have access, so that you may indeed be free to follow
in the foot steps of the Suffering Servant, Jesus Christ Our Lord and Saviour?
Roger Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles, for example, is alleged to «have allowed numerous predator priests to remain
in ministry,» and then to have
placed obstacles
in the way of law enforcement authorities, all of
which,
in the understated words of the report, «did little to enhance the reputation of the
Church for transparency and cooperation.»
It does reveal, however, the shift of emphasis
which took
place in the early centuries of the
Church from the Trinity of experience to the Trinity of doctrine.
The woman was interpreted to be God's true
Church which would have to flee to a prepared
place in the wilderness just before the end of times.
The period of greatest confusion
in Protestant conceptions of
Church and ministry was marked by the conversion of the room into a
place in which organ, choir, pulpit and communion table simultaneously claimed first attention and Akron - plan Sunday School rooms were extruded from an amoebic nucleus.
How that took
place in practice is described
in some detail
in the mission discourse: At the very beginning, before there were sympathizers, when there were no safe houses to
which one could turn, much less house
churches, the committed few disciples (and no doubt Jesus himself) walked, barefoot and without any supplies, from
place to
place.
The
place in which the minister mainly functions always signalizes the
Church's idea of his task.
It seems to be clear that the
Church in America
in our time like
Church in any
place at any time is deeply influenced
in its institutional forms by the political and economic society with
which it lives
in conjunction.
In a sense it is these mores, these values and expressions of moral attitudes or what Toqueville called «the habits of the heart» which are at risk if the mass media in general, and television in particular, were to succeed in replacing the church as the place where the mores are generated and sustaine
In a sense it is these mores, these values and expressions of moral attitudes or what Toqueville called «the habits of the heart»
which are at risk if the mass media
in general, and television in particular, were to succeed in replacing the church as the place where the mores are generated and sustaine
in general, and television
in particular, were to succeed in replacing the church as the place where the mores are generated and sustaine
in particular, were to succeed
in replacing the church as the place where the mores are generated and sustaine
in replacing the
church as the
place where the mores are generated and sustained.
The first thing they did whenever they wished to stop at a particular
place, was to erect a tabernacle or temple to their false god for the duration of the time they expected to stay there, and they built this temple
in the middle of the site on
which they had established themselves, the ark being
placed upon an altar such as is used
in a
church, for the idol wished to imitate our religion
in many ways, as we shall afterwards show.10
You redefine
church to something other than the NT, then you criticize that (
which is to be rightly criticized), and then you offer nothing
in its
place?