Sentences with phrase «politics upon the church»

This would impose categories of power and authority drawn from the sphere of earthly politics upon the Church, which is the mystical body of Christ.

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Anyone who practices freedom of religion and separation of church and state can not impose their religion upon politics without being heretical.

In his second book, he talks about the politics, binding nature and religious slavery the VISION places upon both pastor and people in church culture.

But the history of our time is no less the stage upon which the drama of salvation is played out than was the history of the fifth century B.C. or the first century A.D. Accordingly, the Christian does not doubt that God is moving with power in the world today — the world of African nationalism, thermonuclear politics, metropolitan planning, and space exploration, The Christian's problem is rather to discover when, where, and how God is moving with such decisiveness as to create a crisis of decision for the church and to summon it and its resources into the struggle.