Sentences with phrase «positive role of the church»
In most instances, basic Christian values were affirmed, and there was some acknowledgment of the positive role of the church in the society.
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Yet some of the most substantive theology being written by Baptist scholars today comes from a little - known circle of mostly younger moderates who have shown a surprising interest in quite traditional themes such as the deeper meaning of baptism and the Lord's Supper, the covenantal disciplines of congregational life, and the positive role of creeds and confessions in the life of the church.
If evangelicals would direct their criticism chiefly to the absence of conviction and fervor, so widespread, in the church, they could play a very positive, and authentically Wesleyan, role in promoting serious doctrinal study in the church.
In Chapter 2 I said: «Christian fundamentalism, by capturing the mainline churches as it has been doing, is preventing Christianity from playing a positive and creative role in the shaping of the modern global society.»
The second thesis of my book was that homosexuals, rather than being somehow a menace to the values of society and the family, as Christians have tended to assume, have, as a part of God's creative plan, special gifts and qualities and a very positive contribution to make to the development of society (cf. also my article «Homosexuality, Lesbianism, and the Future: The Creative Role of the Gay Community in Building a More Humane Society,» in A Challenge to Love: Gay and Lesbian Catholics in the Church, edited by Robert Nugent [Crossroad, 1984]-RRB-.
Because of the above (cf. first sentence of Chapter IV, «The Role of the Church in the Modern World», beginning at para 40) the Council wanted to foster a respectful «dialogue» with the great mass of people outside the Church «acknowledging their positive values» (57).
The Catholic Church was eager to tell a positive story about the Church's role during the war, and the State of Israel was eager to promote the idea of righteous gentiles and tell stories of right - minded ordinary people who helped to save ordinary Jews.
The presentation moves through the legalisation of Christianity in the Roman Empire, looking at the positive and negative effects of this, and shows how the Church's understanding of the role ofthe papacy has unfolded through time in order to meet the unique challenges of every age.
The home secretary insisted you «can not overstate» the importance of positive role models, including fathers, youth workers and church leaders.
One of the most powerful examples of the central role for social networks in the creation of positive change is the faith based lifestyle program at Saddleback Church in California known as The Daniel Plan.
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